Well this is just a random idea that sprang to mind at about 2am yesterday morning (don't ask… I have very erratic sleeping patterns!). Will probably be a series of random scenes, I really don't know!
So, a bit about this format: each chapter is simply a scene between two people, but you will only have the dialogue of one of the people… this allows me to feel creative and also allows you, my lovely readers, to have a little imagination and fill in the gaps!
This is a bit of a test run, so let me know what you think?
R xxx
Disclaimer: If I owned it, I could afford to go on holiday this year :'( The bahamas has always appealed… One day…
Lily (+ James)
'Yes Potter, what do you want?'
'Oh you did, did you?'
'No.'
'Yes that's my final answer.'
'Yes I'm sure.'
'Potter if you don't have anything of value to say to me, I'd really appreciate it if you would leave me alone.'
'None of your business.'
'Potter, get off! OW!'
'If you were sorry, you'd have left earlier without setting fire to my Arithmancy homework.'
'You don't even do Arithmancy!'
'Potter, this may seem a little incredulous to you, but some of us would like to actually pass our OWLs.'
'No, it means that I am disinclined to let you do my work when you have no idea what the rudiments of the subject include.'
'Yes, I would like that very much.'
'Potter… what are you doing?'
'You are not studying.'
'Yes, I realise this is the library. So what are you doing in it? Moreover, on my table.'
'Could you read somewhere else?'
'FINE. Read here, see if I care.'
'…'
'…'
'Potter, if you are going to read at my table, I would appreciate it beyond all measure if you would stop playing footsie with me.'
'No, I am not enjoying it.'
'No, I'm not.'
'I'm not smiling.'
'Fine, suit yourself.'
'…'
'Potter, stop humming please.'
'No you cannot whistle instead.'
'Because it's annoying.'
'Lighten up? Lighten UP! Potter, I have a detention slip at my disposal, and I'm not afraid to use it.'
'Oh wouldn't I?'
Dentention Slip
Issued by: Lily Rosalie Evans
To: James
'what's your middle name?'
Ingrid
'Ingrid! Potter!'
Daniel Potter
Reason: Cheek…
'Yes cheek Potter.'
'Yes you were'
'FINE, you think of a good enough excuse.'
…and purposeful destruction of another student's work
'It is destroyed!'
'Oh great, two sentences! Do you realise how much I'd written already?'
'It there, that little pile of black ash next to the candle. And I believe some of it may be smeared on your cheek'
'No I most certainly will not wipe it off for you.'
'Because… oh stop distracting me.'
Punishment: Lines
Date: 17th October 1975
'There you go.'
'You're welcome.'
'No you may not do your lines here. You first have to take that to McGonagall.'
'Yes yes, Professor McGonagall.'
'Look, why am I even bothering to explain this to you? You must have had at least a thousand of these in your school career.'
'And you counted?'
'Permit me to say that's sad, Potter.'
'Would you just take that to Professor McGonagall now!'
'Now wherever would you get an idea like that?'
'Well I am.'
'Because you are annoying me.'
'I don't know why. You tell me… no don't.'
'Potter! Would you just leave me ALONE!'
'OW OW OW OW OW!'
'…without burning my hair in the process.'
'I'll give you another detention slip.'
'Yes I would dare.'
'I- Potter. Just go. Please please please just go away.'
'No I will not go out with you this Saturday! I thought we'd established this…'
'Potter, I don't think you realise quite how much danger you are in at this particular moment in time.'
'A lot.'
'Very painfully.'
'No I am NOT in a good mood! Not only have you seen fit to burn both my homework and my hair but you have, in the past five minues "read" seven different books, put a ladder in my tights and escalated my blood pressure through the roof, only to ask me the same question you have been asking me for the past 3 years!'
'Take a wild guess.'
'Oh for the love of… you know exactly which question: "Will you go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend?" '
'NO Potter, I didn't mean… I- Potter get back here!'
All ideas welcome!
R xxx