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Chapter 16: Meetings

It was Sunday morning and the school was quiet and peaceful. Everyone was in the dormitories in their sub conscience state. Well everyone except a small, chubby boy with sandy hair and watery blue eyes. He has been having trouble sleeping lately. He sat in his bed staring at the wall, thinking as hard as he could.
Suddenly as if someone hit him across the face, he had an idea. It is the perfect way to give them a taste of their own medicine. He grinned evilly thinking about how to carry his plan out.

I will start tomorrow. He thought.

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Back at head Quarters everyone was enjoying sleeping in the warm, comfy beds… except James and Lily. It was ten o'clock and the Prefects Meeting was at ten-thirty. They got up and changes into comfortable clothes. They gathered their work and schedules for night time patrols. They walked into the Transfiguration room and set up a few rows of chairs before the Prefects arrived. Then Lily stopped.

"What's wrong?" James asked with worry written all over his face.

"Nothing I just realized that or patrol day is Friday, Saturday and Wednesday nights. Should we ask someone to patrol for us?" Lily told.

"No, we can't ask someone else to do it because then they might find out. We should be fine, but just in case we can ask Filch to keep an extra eye out" James said once the chairs were organized the moved a table to the front of the room and out their papers down. They sat down and continued to talk until the Prefects.

"Ok. I guess that makes sense." Lily said. The Prefects arrived ten minutes later and the meeting begun.

"Ok, everyone settle down. Now as you all know we are your Heads this year. Let's get started" James said. He looked at Lily and urged her to continue.

"Yes. So, the first topic on our list is a Ball. We have decided to have the Ball on the Friday evening before everyone leaves on the Saturday. Now raise your hand if you would like the idea" Lily said. Everyone's hand shot up except of the Slytherins, of course. "Ok. Now James and I will be in charge of decorating the Hall. We need a few more people to help. Ok well how about we have out Hufflepuff and Gryffindor Prefects help with the decorations." Lily said writing down the names on parchment.

"We also need someone to make posters for advertising to place throughout the castle. Any volunteers?" James asked. The Ravenclaw prefects raised their hands.

"Ok thank you. You guys can make it and give it to us by Tuesday and we will check" James said again. Lily wrote all this information down.

Lily looked up at the Slytherins.

"Well, seeing as the Slytherin prefects don't have anything to do yet, why don't we put them in charge of putting the posters up around the castle? And we will put extra on the common room bulletin board." Lily suggested, although she didn't give them a choice.

"We don't have much time to organize this so the posters need to be up by Wednesday, and more meetings will probably be organized. Now, moving on." James told.

"Hogsmeade visits. We have organized the dates and a few around the time of the Ball so we can but our robes. Here is a list. Can you all put it up in your common rooms please?" Lily asked handing each house prefects a piece of paper.

"Oh, now about night-time patrols. Slytherins patrol Mondays and Sundays. Hufflepuff on Tuesday. Ravenclaw on Thursdays. If there are problems or if you need to reschedule then come see either, myself, Lily or Professor McGonagall." James said.

"Ok. Now the last thing on our list has to do with Quiddich." Lily started, everyone sat up straighter in their chairs. "Well we were thinking the other day and what if we were to have a cheerleading team for each house. We haven't talked to Professor Dumbledore yet, we just want to know how many like the idea." Lily said. They looked at her. Everyone, except the Slytherins, put their hands up and agreed.

"We thought it would be a good way to earn more house points and get people more involved in the matches, if that makes sense" Lily continued.

Everyone nodded. "So if we were to tell Professor Dumbledore, you guys will support us on this?" James asked. They all nodded.

"Ok, thank you. Oh, and before you leave the next meeting will be in here Friday, same time. You may leave." Lily said as the Prefects left and went to lunch, the meeting went longer than expected and they missed breakfast.

Once everyone was gone James and lily relaxed in their chairs and exhaled.

"I think that went well" Lily said.

"Yeah, except the dead glares we were receiving from the Slytherins. That went pretty well." James said slightly sarcastic, earning a small hit from Lily.

"Well at least the others liked the cheerleading idea. I was thinking maybe after lunch we could go to the Headmasters office and tell him about it." Lily asked. James groaned but when he looked at her pouting he couldn't say no.

"Ok fine. I swear that face is going to get you in trouble one day." He said as Lily smiled and gave him a quick peck on the lips and leaving the room. They walked hand in hand to the great Hall where they met their friends

"Well it is about time we see you two. We were beginning to think you were doing other things" Sirius said grinning madly

"No Sirius that is what you were thinking not us" Remus said rolling his eyes. "Not all of us have dirty minds like you"

"Whatever, don't listen to him. He is a bit moody this morning" Sirius said as a whisper.

"I heard that"

"Good"

"Ella, how are you feeling?" lily asked sitting next to her friends who has been very quiet this morning.

"I'm ok. Just really tired and sore, but nothing I can't handle right?" she said with a fake smile.

"Be strong" Claire said rubbing her friends back.

"Ok, guys. James and I need to see the headmaster. Let's go James" Lily said pulling him out of the Hall, with his sandwich still in his hand.

"Cockroach Clusters" the statue sprung to life and started moving up. They made the up and James knocked on the door. Not like a normal person but he just kept knocking.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

"James, what are you doing?" lily said stopping him.

"Well I was bored do I thought I should do a nice tune." He shrugged. He was about to continue knocking, when they heard the Headmaster's voice, "Enter"

They walked in and saw Professor Dumbledore sitting at his desk looking at them in amusement. "Ahh, thank you Mr. Potter for that tune you played me. I knew it would be either you or Mr. Black. My suspicions are correct I see" he said with that familiar twinkle in his eyes.

"Hello Professor. How are you?" James said casually sitting down on a chair and making himself comfortable.

"Very well Mr. Potter, thank you for asking." He answered watching as lily took her seat.

"So, for what reason do you come to visit me for?" the headmaster asked looking mostly at lily.

"Well professor. The other day we were thinking, and we were wondering if we are allowed to have a cheerleading team for each house group?" lily asked.

"A cheerleading team?"

"Yes, for the Quiddich matches mostly. We thought it would be a good idea to earn more house points and get other students more involved at matches." Lily continued.

"Yes Professor. We asked our Prefects today at the meeting and they all like the idea." James added.

"I see. It sounds like a good idea. But how many people will be in each team?" he asked.

"Well, both boys and girls can be in the team and each house can have try-outs at different times. It really depends on how many people want to join and if they are good enough. Each team will need a captain and they can have their practice times the same as the Quiddich team." Lily said.

"I see you put a lot of thought into this. I think it is a good idea. Now seeing as you are Head Girl and thought of the idea, I will make you the Captain of the Gryffindor Cheerleading team." Professor Dumbledore said smiling over at Lily who was looking at him with wide eyes.

"Wow, thank you Professor." Was all she could say.

"I still have more questions" The Headmaster said. "Where will the team's practice?"

"Well, when the Gryffindor Quiddich team are having their practice on the pitch the cheerleader can practice on the pitch as well, but if not than they can practice in the open space by the lake, near Hagrid's Hut" Lily answered. "That is if we have permission from you and Hagrid" she added

"Ok… well I will allow this to go through but you must tell the Prefects and put a few flyers up around the castle. But I also have one more question. Who will be the Captain of the other teams? How will they decide who is in charge without a fight breaking out?"

"Well, I didn't really think about that. Um…. but I guess we can have a big try-out where everyone from every House that wants to sign up can come. I guess I can judge with a few others. I will choose the captains for each House and post their names on the bulletin board. Once the captain is chosen they can hold their own try-outs after that" lily said voicing their thought. "They can also organize outfits and all the other finer details."

"Very well. Start putting flyers up around the castle and I will make an announcement tomorrow morning at breakfast." Dumbledore said. Lily and James smiled brightly.

"Thank you" They both said as they were about to leave.

"Actually, I was wondering if I could have a word in private with Miss Evans" Professor Dumbledore said. At first Lily didn't know who he was talking about until she remembered, that was her real name.

"Ok, I will see you back at Head Quarters" James said kissing Lily's cheek before he left.

Lily took her seat again and waited for the Headmaster to talk. Lily was starting to feel nervous and shifted in her seat.

"There is no reason to be nervous Miss Evans. I need to talk to you, but this has nothing to do with family matters." He told her as she relaxed and gave him her attention.

"Now, because you are head Girl, I was wondering if you could do me a favour?" he asked.

"Anything Professor. You name it" she said.

"Well, on Friday there will be a new girl coming to our school. She is originally from South Africa, but her family decided to move. She is quite shy and I was hoping that you could befriend her and show her around?" he said.

"Of course" Lily said.

"Yes. On Friday morning before you go to breakfast, could you please come back to my office and you can meet her then." He told Lily.

"Um… Sir. Can I bring Claire and Ella?" Lily asked.

"Yes, don't think it would be too bad if you brought them along. But please tell no one of our addition to the school. I would like to announce it on Friday" the Headmaster explained.

"Ok. Is that all Sir?"

"Yes, thank you"

"Ok, well have a nice day" Lily said before leaving. Lily walked back to Head Quarters to meet with her friends. She arrived at the portrait five minutes later.

"Big Boobs" as the portrait swung open. Lily was going to kill Sirius for changing the password to something so perverted.

He has a one track mind, I tell you. She thought to herself.

She found Sirius and Claire in the idle of a very heated game of Wizards chess, Remus and Ella lying on the couch and James reading a magazine.

"Hello" she said. Claire and Sirius didn't even hear her because they were concentrating so hard.

"Wow they have never been so quiet before." Lily told James sitting next to him.

"Yeah, well Remus suggested they play because they wouldn't shut up and he had a headache" James said giggling.

"Man, he is probably the only one that knows how to shut Sirius up." Lily stated looking at the couple snoozing on the couch.

"Yeah. Poor guy, him and Ella have to suffer so much. It isn't fair. But at least they found each other and they have a lot in common." James said.

"Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they get married one day" lily said smiling as Remus rolled slightly and wrapped his arm around Ella's waist.

"That's exactly what I was thinking" James said looking down at lily.

"Wow, than you can't be as dumb as I thought" Lily said, but James started tickling her. She tried not to scream and wake up the couple. She rolled, kicked and flung her arms around trying to free herself but it was no use. James soon stopped and Lily sat up trying to catch her breathe again.

"Take it back" he said.

"Is that a threat?" Lily asked grinning.

"Yes, it is" he answered.

Lily hit him on the head with a pillow and ran over to Sirius and Claire. She tried hiding behind Sirius, but it was no use. James grabbed her by her wait and dumped her on the couch again. He started tickling her again and this time she couldn't hold her scream in. She laughed loudly and woke up Remus and Ella. They looked at James and Lily flinging her arms around and just smiled.

They will get married one day. Remus thought.

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