Musings, Notes and Broken Resolutions of Lily and Co.

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Chapter 4: Lily's Fictional Novel

An Extract from the Fictional Novel Written by Lily Louise Evans

Please Note: This novel is entirely fictional and is not based upon any person/s, place/s or event/s.

From any other person's perspective, Louise and Benjamin were very different people. They did have similarities but the number of differences outshone the similarities so successfully that generally the common qualities between them were rarely recognized, if not forgotten completely.

The two were Head Girl and Head Boy of their school. They were both smart and intelligent and were respected by teachers and most students. They were opinionated and head strong and weren't afraid to defend their friends, opinions and views and in Louise's case, even enemies.

The similarities came to a halt there.

Louise was a hard worker. She earned her impressively high marks by working and studying long hours into the night and well before dawn in the morning. She came across as uptight – someone who couldn't relax if she tried and could never 'go with the flow'. Louise ran by timetables to the nearest minute and without a schedule of plan, felt utterly lost and bewildered.

Louise's reputation was clear of any mishaps. She had never served a night of detention, never talked back to a teacher (in her head perhaps, but not out loud) and never treated students cruelly – most of the time. The exception, of course, being Ben, who she felt deserved it. Louise had high morals as to how others should act, but she broke these morals as much as the next person did, particularly around Ben. From an outsider's view, Ben brought out the worst in Louise.

Louise's worst quality (besides her red head temper) was her pride. Although she could defend any other person if someone said something about them, Louise could not bare the thought of someone talking about herself behind her own back. She hated to feel inferior or an outsider at being a muggle born in a magical society full of pure blood wizards and witches who did not believe that she belonged. Her pride was what would dig Louise into a grave if someone didn't come and save her. It was her pride that made her study for so many hours that she would become sick or stressed into a panic attack, so that she could prove that a muggle born girl could perform magic just as good – if not better – than any pure blood boy. It was her pride that would often stop her from saying sorry and from giving people a chance who she had previously ignored.

Louise was a strong person. She could have people call her any variation of curses because of her muggle heritage or her personal traits and still show indifference but she was hurt all the same and this gave her motivation to prove herself worthy.

Ben was basically the opposite. He was so laid back that he was often called lazy. He did barely any study, was given many detentions – although, not enough so that he was booted from his Head Boy position – and still, he managed to pass tests and exams so easily that his marks were forever competing against Louise's. Ben's greatest quality was his sense of humour. Louise was caring and understanding and would help people through problems by talking. Ben was the one who put a smile back on someone's face by acting or saying something in a joking manner.

In the past years of their fighting relationship, Ben had been so arrogant that Louise had lost her temper nearly every time he had spoken to her. Louise had an extremely bad temper but she managed to control it easily around anyone except Ben who, after many years of practice, baited her in exactly the right way that made her temper flare up instantly.

People said that Ben had changed – that he wasn't as arrogant and conceited as he was two years ago and that he was more mature and didn't prank people for sake of pranking anymore. Instead of asking Louise out constantly and being rejected, Ben hasn't asked her out throughout their entire 7th year.

People also said that Louise ignored this change in him and continued to think of him as his immature 5th year self because she was too proud to admit that he had changed and that she had been very wrong about him. So people said.

The one major difference between the two 7th Years was that Benjamin was completely in love with Louise while Louise could barely stand Benjamin as an acquaintance.

So people said from an outsider's point of view.

They, of course, forgot the crucial idea: everything is not always as it seems.

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