If one were to ask most members of the population of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry about Lily Evans the answers would be pretty repetitive. An extremely intelligent and attractive muggle-born witch, Lily is best known for her role as the Head Girl of the school…and the fact that she is the heartthrob of extremely handsome and popular Head Boy, James Potter. What people wouldn't tell you is that Miss Lily Evans is secretly in love with James Potter. The reason people wouldn't tell you this is because nobody knows it, not even Lily Evans herself…or at least, she didn't know it.
It happened quite suddenly really…Lily was sitting in bed one morning thinking about what she would like for breakfast and it just hit her…she loved James Potter.
It was quite an occurrence. Here's how it happened and what happened as a result.
Lily woke up sweating. Her face was flushed and she was shocked to find that she was gasping for air. She'd had a dream, not that this was a big deal. No, it was the contents of the dream that was a big deal. She'd dreamt that she was lying on her side under the oak tree down by the lake, reading a book when James Potter had come up and lain down alongside her, wrapping his arm around her waist. Lily had laughed and James had smiled and buried his head in her hair before kissing his way up her neck to her lips. Instead of jumping up and screaming at him, a she normally would have done she had rolled over to face him and kissed him back. After a long while of exchanging kisses James had pulled away sighing and looking into her eyes. "You know I love, don't you?" He'd asked, and instead of laughing and telling him that he was confused between sexual frustration and love Lily had smiled and kissed him softly on the cheek before leaning in to whisper in his ear. "I love you too", and then she'd woken up.
Lily sat up in her bed and sighed heavily, thinking that she should probably be getting up. She pondered what she should have for breakfast, trying to decide what she really wanted. Fruit would be nice, stewed fruit with vanilla and honey. Yes, that sounded good. It had to have vanilla though; she loved the smell of vanilla. It was one of her favourites smells along with that of nectarines, Chanel perfume and that beautiful smell James had, of grass and pines and sandalwood. Wait a second; she did not just think that, she did not just think that she, Lily Evans, loved the smell of James Potter. She did not love James Potter who had asked her out everyday since fifth year. The same James Potter that always ran his fingers through his hair because he thought it made him look good, although Lily had to admit James had stopped asking her out this year and running his fingers through his hair did make him look really hot, especially when it was a warm day and he had unbuttoned his shirt at the top and loosened his tie…
Lily groaned and slapped the palm of her hand to her head trying to clear her thoughts. She continued to lie there in her bed considering her latest dilemma until finally, with a sigh she realised that there was no way around it, she was in love with James Potter and she probably had been for sometime. So she decided she better face her new and much more important predicament…what she was going to do about it.
And that's when she came up with "The Operation".
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