CHAPTER 6-FIRST DAY BACK

'You know,' Alice whispered to Lily as they sat in Transfiguration. 'We must be on some kind of record, Potter's not asked you out yet!'

They were sitting through a long lesson about animagus. Professor McGonagall was lecturing them on the importance of registering. This amused James, Sirius, Remus and Peter no end for reasons unknown to Lily.

'Mmmm,' Lily replied offhandedly. 'These books are really good aren't they,' she gestured to the note books James had given them before. God help her, she was thinking about James, again.

'Great aren't they!' Alice opened her "text book" (it was really her N.E.W.T's book with the note book stuffed inside.

Lily sighed reluctantly before looking down at her own book and taking out a quill to write "notes."

(lily) Hey guys

(Alice) Hiiiii

She almost laughed because at that moment, James, Sirius, Frank, Mary, Marlene, Perer and Remus dived into their bags after gold sparks shot out from them.

'I hardly think there is any need for seven of you to randomly dive into your bags.' McGonagall called crossly. 'Care to explain? Mr Black? Mr Potter? Miss McKinnon?'

'Well Minnie, you see,' Sirius smirked and flicked his hair of his eyes. 'It's more of the fact that you were giving such a interesting, captivating-'

'Yes yes, that will do Mr Black,' McGonagall cut him off hurriedly. 'Mr Potter?'

'Ah, Professor, that would be because of such an interesting fact you just gave professor!'

'And that would be?' McGonagall was evidently trying to find out if they had been listening.

'Err, well,' James looked down at his book hurriedly to see words forming on the page.

Lily: The fact that it is of high importance to register yourself as an animagus otherwise you can be sent to the ministry for a hearing or in some circumstances, Azkaban.

'That Professor,' he looked up, grinning. 'That it is very important to register yourself as an animagus. Non registering is illegal and can be sent to Azkaban in some cases.'

McGonagall looked shocked. 'Well Mr Potter, five points to Gryffindor. Glad to know you care so much about animagus.'

The whole class burst into laughter and Lily saw James exchange a knowing look with Sirius.

'Erm Professor?' Remus put his hand up. When Lily turned around, he looked ghostly pale and was shaking slightly. 'I don't feel too good, please may I go to Madam Pomfrey?'

Professor McGonagall first looked at Remus, and then Peter, knowingly. Raising an eyebrow, she quickly checked a calender on her desk.

'I see Mr Lupin, of course. Mr Pettigrew, please escort him and then go straight to your next lesson, there are only three minutes left. Class, pack away, quickly!'

Some students exchanged glances, Professor McGonagall rarely let the class pack away before a minute to the bell. However, everyone was standing behind desks with their bags in about thirty seconds. Alice burst out laughing though, a few minutes later and Lily swung around to see what was funny.

'Mr Potter! Much as you may be interested in taking transfiguration notes I see no reason for you to still be writing, put the book away!' McGonagall said icily, gathering together sheets of parchment.

James and Sirius both had their quills scribbling away inside the books. When McGonagall snapped, they merely smirked at each other at stuffed the books into their bags, to everyone amazement.

The next class was herbology. Lily paired up with Alice and Mary. Alice was very good at herbology so Lily knew she wouldn't have to get to dirty. However, Alice was in a bad mood and Mary was too shy to actually do any work with the dangerous plants so it was mostly up to Lily.

'Right then class,' Professor Sprout began. She was a new teacher who had only joined a couple of years ago. Still quite young and dressed in beige robes with curly brown hair. 'Today we are moving mandrakes to greenhouse two, they're are far too many to be in this one. You probably won't need earmuffs but everybody grab a pair just to be on the safe side. I'll attract your attention when it's the end of the lesson, let's get going!'

Sprout rubbed her hands together and everybody scrambled to their bags to pull out dragon hide gloves and earmuffs. Lily could've celebrated, moving mandrakes was an easy task for seventh years. There wasn't much to it other than picking up the pots and moving them.

After about ten minutes, everyone was hot, sweaty and covered in dirt. The sun was blazing through the glass panels in the windows and everyone was bored.

Lily was dragging a rather fat mandrake through the greenhouse door when two pots levitated themselves past her and zoomed into the greenhouse. She heard the clink of them pottery being set on a table and picked up the pot to investigate.

'Ahhh, that's done it! All right Lily?' James was stood in greenhouse three looking extremely pleased with himself as he waved his wand and pots zoomed towards him. Although Lily couldn't hear hear very well, she could lip read expertly. 'Accio mandrake pots!' He spoke clearly, and within a few seconds, Lily could see them floating towards him. Carefully, James directed the pots down along the table before hurrying back after someone called his name.

Lily looked around, most people were in greenhouse one. James had used a summoning charm to gather the mandrake pots. It was a rather tricky spell but she felt that she could manage. They had done it in charms last year although they had only learn the theory, the actual practical was thorough.

'Ac- accio mandrake pots!' Lily called in what she hoped was a confident tone. She saw nothing at first, until she peered around the glass door and saw a pot zooming towards her at a speed faster than she would have liked.

Crash! Without warning, the pot smashed its way through the glass windows and straight out the other side, towards the charms classroom. She could just see professor Flitwick showing the third years argumenti, the water spell.

'Nooo,' Lily screamed, running for the pot, but nobody heard her. SMASH! The pot had broken the glass, shards of it was everywhere but the mandrake was sitting on the floor bawling.

Quickly, Lily stuffed it inside spare pot before pulling off her earmuffs. She cast a quick reparo over the glass and the shards flew back into the pane before sealing with a crack. At that moment, professor sprout came rushing round the corner, James, Alice and Sirius hot on her heels to take in the scene before them.

Half the pots were upturned, dirt covered the floor and a sack of dragon dung fertiliser had a hole in it, leaking onto the floor. A large watering can had been upturned so a large pool of water was covering half the greenhouse. In the middle of the water, stood Lily. Her earmuffs lay in the water, forgotten. She was covered in dirt, her hair and robes sopping and as she stood with her wand out, a trickle of blood seeped through her robes down her arm where the glass had cut her. Nervously, she flicked a strand of red, dripping and mucky hair out of her eyes, lowered her wand.

'I, er-I can er, explain Professor?' Lily bit her lip nervously as she put her wand in her pocket.

Professor Sprout looked bewildered but flicked her wand slightly and the water, dirt and blood vanished from Lily and the greenhouse.

'I'll see you in my office tonight at eight Miss Evans. Just something for you to reflect on,' Lily nodded glumly. 'Mr Black, I can trust you to alert the rest of the class to stop working and pack away for lunch. Mr Potter, can you escort Miss Evans to the hospital wing-!'

'I'm fine Professor,' Lily cut in.

'-To check for an shards of glass in her skin,' Professor Sprout said firmly. 'I will clear this up, off you go now.'

Sirius sprinted off, no doubt to alert the class and to get away from Professor Sprout, who was looking slightly angry. James grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her quickly away from the greenhouse. He summoned her bags and his before quickly catching them and striding up the castle.

'What an earth were you doing?' He asked. 'We were just about to clear up when we heard a massive crash through the earmuffs and saw glass fly everywhere.'

'Ah,' Lily averted her glance to her robe sleeve. 'Well, you see. I was using a spell to summon the, erm, mandrake pots but because I had my earmuffs and my gloves on it, was well, hard,' she added defensively. 'And so everything just went out of hand with the spell so the mandrake flew straight through into Professor Flitwick's classroom-Ohmigod I do hope he's alright!'

'Lily relax, I'm sure they're all fine,' James reassured her, gently propelling her into the hospital wing.

Author's Note: So I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I wrote it a while ago and couldn't be bothered to change the plot so I'm not entirely sure if I like it but what the heck, it's a Friday night! Thanks! :)