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'The List'

James woke up groggily the next morning, he fumbled about on his bedside table for his glasses and propped them against his nose. His legs swung to the side of the bed and he got down. He entered the bathroom, stood in front of the mirror and flexed his muscles.

"You're so vain, you know that Prongs?" James was startled to see Remus also in the reflection of the mirror, "Lily doesn't like vanity"

"Don't you mean vainness?"

"Actually James, I don't" He laughed at the boy's futile attempts to always outsmart him.

"Oh come on Remus, I'm vain, that's just who I am!"

"And personally I don't think you should change that, it's just Lily-"

"I would change anything for Lily"

"How many times do you look in the mirror a day? On average"

"Around…134 times"

"Right…cut it down to 60 ok?"

"But…but that means I could have an incredibly large piece of spinach in my teeth and I wouldn't know for, what? An hour!"

"James, wouldn't someone tell you if you had spinach in your teeth?"

"Would you?" James question was poignant. He was right, Remus wouldn't tell him.

"Still, you'll look into any shiny surface you come across"

"I'm a very self conscious person Remus!"

"Oh yes, and yesterday I flew to England to have tea and scones with the queen"

"And you didn't invite me?" Remus rolled his eyes at the boy, he was funny, but if he really wanted to he could drive you nuts.

Lily and her friend Ellie were busy getting dressed for school. Lily's hair was still wet from her recent shower and the tiny droplets of water at the end of her strands were soaking through her school shirt making it see-through.

"Lily you really ought to sort that out before we leave" Ellie said, pointing at the girl's shirt, which was merely a piece of transparent cloth over her red patterned bra.

Lily looked down at her shirt and then pointed her wand at her hair, she muttered an incantation and her hair instantly dried, it eall down to just below her shoulders where it created small flowing ringlets. However she had not noticed that her shirt was still damp.

"I've got Defence Against the Dark Arts first"

"Great, me too" The girls strolled off to breakfast linking arms. However, they didn't get as far as the portrait hole when they heard a leering voice from behind them.

"Lily dearest" Lily stack out her tongue and mouthed 'kill me' to Ellie before turning around to face her admirer.

"What do you want Potter?"

"I just wanted to tell you that you look err-" James had just noticed Lily's shirt and couldn't help but stare, "I-I-I y-you- nice- v-very nice" He stuttered. Remus rolled his eyes and grabbed Lily by the arm. He brought her to a mirror in the corner of the room and showed her exactly what James was gaping at. She gasped and covered her chest with her arms. Remus waved his wand at her and her shirt dried.

"You pervert Potter!" She squealed at the gob smacked boy.

"No! No I was just going to say how lovely you look today!"

"Yeah and perve on my bra!"

"I wasn't!"

"Oh and I bet I know just what you were thinking!" She was utterly outraged. She grabbed Ellie by the arm and dragged her out of the portrait hall and all the way down to breakfast, ignoring the following "Lily! Lily!" that she was receiving from an incredulous James.

"Smooth James, smooth"

"This is harder than I thought it would be" James said, putting his head in his hands.

"Don't worry; I have a few more tricks up my sleeve to help you win her heart" Remus took him by the arm and lead him to the Great Hall, despite his constant moans and "Oh Lily!" s.

Ellie and Lily were joined by Jessica and Sophie (their two Ravenclaw friends) after breakfast as they walked to DADA together. Ellie laughed about Lily's little accident with James that morning, much to Lily's dismay, and got the other two howling along with her imitations of both James and Lily's facial expressions. Lily managed a small smile herself which was quickly replaced by a frown as she entered the classroom to see all the Marauders standing there in the middle of the room.

Their Professor, Professor Drewbridge stood in front of the four boys, pointing at people to sit down in seats.

"You Potter, over there on that empty desk" He looked around as though not sure who to seat next, finally he clocked eyes on Lily, "Miss Evans, next to Potter".

Lily stood in her spot astounded.

"Sir…sorry sir, I was just wondering if I could sit somewhere different because I-"

"No. Ellie Simpson you sit next to Remus Lupin, Black next to Friar, Pettigrew next to Long, and McIntyre you will be next to…ahh McKenzie"

"But Sir I really-" Lily pleaded.

"Please Miss Evans, I'm having enough trouble as it is with, what, the wife leaving me for an older man and the dog going off and getting itself run over, stupid bitch" With which he added, "I mean the dog not the wife". James looked at Lily with delight and patted the chair next to him, signalling for her to come and sit down. She winced and parted from her friends, walking slowly to the chair as though it was her death march. She wiped down the seat with her hand and sat down on it, making sure she kept as much away from Potter as possible. She was balancing on the edge of her seat and nearly fell off with surprise when James asked how her day was going so far.

"What's it to you?" She asked, eyeballing him suspiciously.

"I was just wondering"

"Well, I got perved on this morning by an utter freak and now I have to spend all of my Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons with him, so right now my day is looking pretty shite thanks" James looked down, stung by her answer. He couldn't actually understand why she was so horrible to him.

"Oh, ok I understand" She looked at him in the face and did a double take; did she just see a look of hurt on James Potter's face?

"Oh James I wasn't trying to offend you I-"

"You just succeeded right?" He asked her, shaking his head slightly. He looked away from her but she kept looking at him. Why all of a sudden did she feel sympathy for him? For the boy she hated.

"Miss Evans will you and Mr Potter please stop having a love-off session in my classroom, just because you still have those young burning flames doesn't mean the rest of us do" He said in a bitter tone, slamming a picture of his wife face-down on his desk.

"Me and Evans having a love-off session? Fat chance Professor" James snorted.

"Sir, I don't believe that talking about Potter and Evans love life is in the curriculum" A particularly nasty looking Slytherin said, giving each of them a distasteful look in turn.

"Yes, yes you're right Mr Tattler; let us get on with our work hmm"

James and Lily continued to ignore each other throughout the whole lesson of learning about Grindylows and Hinkypunks. Lily didn't know why this bothered her so much but there was something there deep inside her that was really uncomfortable with this new arrangement of blanking. When the lesson was over James gathered his things together without another word and hurried off to meet Sirius where they walked to Transfiguration together.

"Hey Lily, how was the lesson with Potter?" Ellie asked her as they also walked to Transfiguration.

"Strange…I don't think he likes me any more"

"Oh come off it Lily, he's insanely in love with you"

"I dunno…not any more" Lily registered as Severus walked past her, she hadn't spoken to him since sometime in the Summer holidays and made the mental note to catch him on his own later and have a quick catch up.

"Ahh old McGonagall now, watch she doesn't turn into anything you wouldn't expect, like a…really cute boy or something!" Ellie gasped. Lily laughed at her friend and entered the classroom. Professor McGonagall was facing the board and writing down some new spells on the board. Lily realised that all of the Marauders were at the back of the classroom on desks next to each other. When Remus caught her eye he gave her a smile but when James realised she was looking he burst into laughter and whispered something to Sirius. Lily went bright red and looked away.

"Now class, as you are now 6th years I trust your judgement to choose where you seat yourselves, however I do expect complete and full attention from each one of you in my lessons and any misbehaviour will ultimately result in your moving of either desks, or of this classroom. Is that understood 6th years?" A chorus of 'Yes Professor McGonagall' pursued her and she nodded for them all to take a seat. Lily made sure she sat as far away from the Marauders as possible, bringing Ellie along with her.

"Now today we will be transforming metals, some metals are easier to transform than others, and some metals are nigh impossible to transform, for example, gold. There is only one substance that can transform a metal into gold, but I think that's for your Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher to tell you about. Now will you all get out your books, quills, and some parchment and copy off the board" As soon as she had finished speaking a scream from outside the door was heard, making her jump in fright, "Students I need to go and attend to what that was, I expect all of you to be finished when I return, so get to work" She hurried out of the classroom and the class heard her gasp as the door swung shut on its hinges.

"This is boring!" Sirius sighed loudly as though everyone would want to hear what he was saying.

"You're boring" Ellie said to him with distaste.

"Says who Simpson?"

"Says me, just now Black" They glared at each other with intent. Lily reckoned they might fancy each other, but their silly arguments were just getting too silly to handle.

"Oh grow up you two" Remus murmured, still scratching away at his parchment with his quill.

"You grow up!" Sirius snapped back in his defence.

"I have done!"

"Yeah well…yeah!" Remus shook his head and went back to doing his work. Lily made sure to keep out of this little confrontation, she scribbled down the remainder of what was on the board. McGonagall was still nowhere to be seen. Something soft but thrown with force hit her on the back of the head, she bent over to pick it up from the floor and found a ball of parchment; she opened it and smoothed out the creases. On it was a bewitched (making it move) picture of her and James kissing, she felt something inside her leap with pleasure, but she tried to control an outwards smile. Why was she feeling like this all of a sudden? She turned round look at James, maybe even smile at him but she was greeted instead with the wink of Sirius Black, who was pointing at the parchment in her hand and doing thumbs up. Her stomach dropped, it was only Black messing around. She stared at James bent down her head for exactly 23 seconds, holding her breath. She realised that her attempts were futile and decided to stop hoping he looked at her. Once she had turned back round James finally looked at her. He frowned, Remus' new suggestion of ignoring her didn't seem to be working at all, in fact it seemed to be pushing her away further. He ought to try a new approach, Remus said she likes being talked to like a normal person, but James had never spoken to a girl like a normal person before, except maybe his mum.