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Very Dull School Days and Quidditch Practice

The days pasted slowly for Lily. Rumors were around the school that Lily and Malfoy were 'together'. It was partly right but Lily and Malfoy were only studying together. Lily knew who had started this lie. Sarah. She was the one who told her brother and Janet and the whole school. But there was even a more interesting rumor going around. Lily had heard from a Hufflepuff 3rd year that the whole school was buzzing because one of the students was the very descendant of Voldemort. Of course, no one had been able to prove this but it never died. Lily sat down at the Gryffendor table. There, waiting for her was her owl, Jasmine, with a note in its beak. It was from Ian.

Dear Lily,

Hey we need to talk. Meet me at the East Tower at 10 tomorrow night.

Ian

Lily folded the note quickly. If everyone found out that the rumor was true, they would go mad. The first lesson that day was DADA. When she got there, she sat at a table with Elizabeth.

" What's wrong Lily? You look very bothered today." Elizabeth asked.

" That rumor that's going around the school about me and Malfoy, that's all." Lily replied.

" Oh, I see. Well, I think it's true." Elizabeth said.

Lily turned on her. " You do!" she said.

" Well, yea. I see you and Malfoy hang around each other a lot. But I won't tell anyone." Elizabeth said, smiling.

" The only people who know is me, Malfoy, and my dad." Lily said, just as the bell rang.

Harry walked into the classroom. " Today we are going to learn about the Unforgettable Curses. Get some parchment and a quill out to make notes. First is the Imperious Curse. It can make anyone be controlled. Only few can throw it off completely. Next is the Cruciatus Curse. It causes pain and torture. It hurts very bad. Feels like you're being cut up by a hundred knives. And last and the worst, is the Avada Kadavra Curse. Instant death. Nothing can stop it. And no one has survived it, except one and I don't think I need to name that person. Now, using one of these curses on a human will get you a life sentence in Azkaban."

They wrote more notes for the rest of the class time.

" For homework, a 3 foot essay on these 3 curses. That will be all. You may go." he said as the bell rang.

Next class was Herbology. " Today, we're going to repot Bouncing Bulbs." said Pro. Longbottem. " (A.N. yes, that is Neville.) It was very dull. Once in a while, one of the bulbs would jump out of Josh's hand and hit on the face. Finally, after what seemed forever in the greenhouses, the bell rang for lunch. Sweaty and filthy, everyone went up to the castle to wash up.

Lily plopped down on the bench at the Gryffendor table. She was extremely tired.

" This has been the most boring day in my life." she burst out.

" Yea. I feel like we're in the doldrums." James agreed stuffing some chicken in his mouth.

" Well, at least we have Quidditch practice tonight." Lily said. " It's not as boring as these classes. Even DADA was boring."

" Quidditch practice? This soon?" Janet asked.

" Yea. Anna wants to get started as soon as we can." James said sighing.

That night, Lily and James went to Quidditch practice. Anna had a huge model of the field.

" Ok, this is going to be our plan for this year." Anna jabbing the model with her wand. The figures on the model moved. Anna talked on and on. Lily started to think about what she would have been doing if she were not here. Maybe doing some homework, or sleeping. This was one of the most boring days of her life.

" Lily!" a voice said, bringing her back to reality. Lily looked up. The whole team was looking at her.

" Huh? I like the idea." Lily said very quickly.

" What I said was that we are now going to try our plan." Anna said.

" Oh, right. I knew that." Lily mumbled, picking up her broomstick and walking out the door.

That night, as Lily went to bed, she found it very hard to fall asleep. She also felt as if she had forgotten something. She sat up straight in bed. She had forgotten all about the meeting in the East Tower. She got out of bed and threw on her night gown. Lily ran down the corridors. Finally, she got to the East Tower. Waiting in the shadows was Ian.

" Took you long enough." he said, in a joking matter.

" Sorry. I totally forgot." Lily said, out of breath.

" I wanted to meet you here because I wanted to know how we are going to deal with this.... situation." Ian said.

" We will just have to stop hanging around each other so much. Or not at all." Lily replied.

" I see. And, you know who started this rumor?" Ian asked.

" Yes. Sarah did. She hasn't been talking to me." Lily said. "And I found her in my trunk looking through it. She told me that she thought that I might have found something that she had lost a long time ago."

" So, no more studying together?" Ian said.

" Yea. And not to be seen together." Lily agreed.

" Oh, and the 3 year Slytherin boys that dared me to take you to the ball last year dared me to do it again." Ian said, blushing. " So, do you want to go to the ball with me again? I promise that I won't be so mean this time."

Lily laughed. " Yea. I'll go with you. Can we at least tell everyone that we are together at the Christmas Ball?"

" Yea. I guess we can. Well, we better get back to our dormitories before Filch finds us out of bed." Ian replied, grinning widely.

" See ya later." Lily said, waving. She walked to her common room. She could not hang around Ian for until at least Christmas. She got into bed. Why was life so difficult? Lily woke up late the next day, which was a Saturday. There was to be a Hogsmede trip that day. Lily hung out with Janet and Elizabeth for a change.

" Lily, what's wrong? You look, well, sad." Elizabeth said.

" Oh, nothing. I feel really down for some reason." Lily replied, sighing. They went to Honeydukes and looked around for a while.

" Look at these blood flavored lollipops. Maybe Josh would eat one if I told him that it was cherry flavored." Katie said.

They bought some candy and left. Next, they went to the post office and looked at the owls. Finally, Katie and Janet sent a letter to their family. They went to The Three Broomsticks to get a butterbeer. They got a table and sat down. Lily looked around. There were a lot of Hogwarts students here. Her eyes landed on Ian. He caught her eye too. He smiled and looked away only when his friend asked him something.

" Here we go. Four butterbeers. Cheers everyone!" Katie said lifting up her own butterbeer.

" So, I was thinking, and I think that one Ravenclaw boy, what's his name? Oh yea, Porter. Isn't he cute? I hope he asks me to the ball." Janet was saying. " So Lily, now that you don't have to go with my brother, who do you want to go with?"

" Oh, I don't know." Lily replied.

" Well, I hope Draco won't ask poor Lily to the ball again. She was miserable. I found her in her bed two hours before the ball ended doing homework telling me that he had dumped her." Katie said.

Lily heard them. It was true. She had hated her first Christmas Ball.

" I'm going back to the school." Lily said, standing up.

" So soon? We have to be back in like three hours." Elizabeth said.

" I'm really tired and I need to get some homework done." Lily replied.

She walked out of the building. She was halfway back to the school when she bumped into someone who was walking the same way. She turned to the person.

" Ian!" Lily almost shouted. He covered her mouth.

" Shut up! Do you want everyone to know we are walking together?" Ian said out of the side of his mouth.

" What are you doing?" Lily asked.

" Well, I was only going back to the school, but then I ran into a girl named Lily Potter." Ian answered.

" Oh, me too. Look, I better speed up a little so people won't think we are walking together." Lily replied.

" See you later." Ian whispered as he walked past Lily.

" But.." Lily started to say but Ian had disappeared.

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Ok, I made that as long as I could. Hope you liked it. HPgirl7