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October 21- Great Hall
Poor Mariah Parsons had a most unfortunate surprise waiting for her. You remember yesterday when I told you about the prefects meeting? Well if you don't I'm gonna recap anyway.
Parsons had the horrible luck of catching Bellatrix Black and Rodolphus Lestrange in a closet. Ew, can you imagine that awful sight?
Anyway, Parsons told them to get out and go back to their dorms but Bellatrix refused. Apparently Bellatrix hexed her and then just went back to whatever she was doing with Lestrange. Parsons confronted her last prefects meeting and basically called Bellatrix a slut.
This morning Parsons discovered that her beloved tawny owl had its neck wrung the night before. Another owl actually delivered it to her this morning at breakfast.
Hmm….I wonder who did it? The fact that Bellatrix and all her snaky Slytherin followers were laughing their heads off surely couldn't mean anything could it.
You've got to love my sarcasm.
Anyhow, Parsons did get something out of it. Sirius seems to feel the need to pay for his family's atrocities and has now begun dating Parsons. She's so happy she seemed to have forgotten all about the owl.
Poor little owl.
I blushed when James smiled at me this morning. But we haven't spoken yet.
Wow I'm still floating.
October 22- Transfiguration
Still floating!
James and I've been talking in the common room. People always look at us sort of weird. Jessie Anderson seems especially confused to why James Potter would be talking to me; a girl whose name she probably doesn't even know.
Well forget her I don't care whatever she thinks.
October 24- Charms
A few days ago I said Andromeda Black was weird right.
I'm back to that opinion of her.
Well, she's not weird exactly. It's just so strange to have a Black be kind towards me.
Today in Potions Larry Vane was sick and I was thinking of ditching potions because now Black could be especially malicious towards me. Lucky me, Black was absent also.
But Andromeda wasn't.
While Slughorn was giving his regular lecture I was thinking about how there'd probably be this awkward silence on the table today.
Boy, was I wrong.
As soon as we were told to start working Andromeda was all "Hey, Lily!"
"Hi, Andromeda," I said cautiously. After all, I still didn't know if she was about to verbally attack me or something.
"Oh, you don't have to call me Andromeda," she rolled her eyes here, "My family has such long names it gets so annoying. Anyway you can call me Andy."
"Okay…"
"Ugh, you're so lucky you're good at potions. I've barely been getting by this class since 1st year."
"Oh, that sucks."
She chatted for a few more minutes before she realized I wasn't exactly talking back.
"Did I say something wrong?"
"No, it's just, well, uh, I always thought you had your cousin's opinion of me," I told her truthfully.
Her eyes widened and opened her mouth in shock. But then she got this strange glint in her eyes and she said, "Which one."
"What?"
"Which cousin, Regulus or Sirius?"
"Well, um, Regulus."
She snickered into her palm and muttered, "Lily, I can't really explain this here. How about we meet in the library next Sunday?"
I had no idea what was going on and then my state of confusion was further increased when she suddenly hissed, "Heidi's coming; I'm going to pretend like I hate you, okay."
"Andy," Heidi Kales cooed as she came over.
"Heidi," Andromeda smiled warmly.
"I just came over to make sure you weren't going insane. You know being stuck with mudblood Evans," she whispered loudly, most likely so I'd be sure to hear.
"I'm surviving but just barely," Andromeda whispered back.
The two giggled and whispered some more leaving me to feel like a dork. I was relieved when class was over but before I could get to Mandy safely I felt something sharp hit the back of my head.
It was a paper airplane and as Andromeda walked by with Heidi she pointed at it.
Here's what it said:
Sorry about Heidi, I can't explain it here.
Meet me at the library (potions section) Sunday at 6:00 A.M.
I promise it will be worth it, I'll explain everything
-AB
Can you see why I think she's strange? But, as usual, I'm curious so I'll turn up.
October 25- my bed
Oh, the joys of Saturday s.
Last night I hung out with the Marauders. They made me laugh so hard I thought my sides were going to break open.
James sat next to me with his arm around me.
Yes, I was elated.
Ha, Jessie Anderson was shooting glares at me all night. It was hilarious.
Well, I want some breakfast. I'll write more later.
Later
You know maybe I shouldn't go meet Andromeda. For all I know I'll go and get ambushed by a bunch of Slytherins. She is Bellatrix's sister after all!
But what if she isn't evil and won't ambush me.
ARGH! THIS IS CONFUSING!
All right I don't think I'll go.
Even Later
My previous entry has just been contrasted.
You see, Sirius just came up to me a minute ago and handed me this note.
I swear on my dead cat Fluffster that I won't ambush you or anything like that. PLEASE MEET ME! I want to explain! Remember 6 o'clock Sunday morning in the potions lesson. Please, please, please be there!
-AB
"So what's that about," Sirius asked once I was finished reading the note, "Andy just came running up to me and told me to give this to you."
"You're cousin wants me to meet her," I said quietly, "you don't think she'll ambush me do you?"
"Who, Andy? No. Why does she want to meet you?"
"I don't know. Guess I'll have to find out."
I know I shouldn't trust Sirius but I figured he wouldn't lie about his cousins.
So I have now decided I'll go!
Even though it may be the last thing I ever do…
Maybe I should go write my will.
October 26- Common Room
I met with Andromeda.
It was…well, to be honest I don't really know what to think.
As I said my curiosity was sparked enough that I was actually willing to get up at the ungodly hour of six just to go meet her.
I was surprised the library was even open but I guess Madam Prince can't bear to be away from her books too long. So anyway, there are around three aisles of potion related books so I just hung around there.
"Pssst!"
I (being rather daft in the morning) couldn't figure out the heck it was. Until I was roughly pulled down an aisle.
"Lily I've spent five minutes trying to get your attention," a voice scolded.
Of course it was Andromeda.
She dragged me down the aisle to a place that had these dusty old books with titles like; Monkey Hairs, the Differences Can Change Everything and Wool of a Bat or Tongue of the Dog; Can They Ever Work in Harmony?
"Okay we shouldn't be interrupted here," Andromeda whispered, glancing around.
"Just being in the library at six in the morning probably means we won't be interrupted," I told her a little crossly.
"Your right," she laughed nervously while still looking around.
We stared at each other in silence before I finally said, "So what's this about."
She took a long breath.
"I don't hate you."
"Okay…"
"In fact I think you seem pretty nice," she continued eagerly.
"Uh, thanks."
"But the thing is Lily-um- sorry this is sort of embarrassing. It's just…I can't be friends with you."
Off course I was very confused.
"Why?"
She sighed and slumped against the bookcase, "Because of my family."
"Oh…"
The meaning sort of sunk in then. She didn't want to defy her family by being friends with half-bloods and muggle-borns.
"Thanks for explaining," I said briskly and turned to walk away.
"No wait Lily!"
She grabbed my arm and pulled me back.
"I'm not finished yet!"
"Andromeda I understand," I said in a semi-understanding voice, "You don't want to make you're family mad by being friends with a Muggle-born. So you can be civil towards me whenever you like but other than that I'll stay out of your way."
"Lily you don't get it," she hissed.
"Huh?"
"If my parents ever knew I was remotely friendly to people like you I'd be disowned so fast my name would be blasted off the family tree before you can say muggle-born. The only reason Sirius hasn't been disowned is because he's the heir and they haven't quite given up on him yet. If I was disowned I'd have no where to go. I'd have to live on the streets or in some shelter," she continued bitterly.
"Oh… I'm sorry."
"Yeah, I am too."
After a moments silence she spoke again.
"Lily I'm really not the rest of the blood purists-"
"Like you're family?"
She grinned sort of ruefully, "Minus Sirius, yes. But you have to remember they still are my family."
"Sorry," I said sheepishly.
"So here's what I propose," she said in a business voice, "I'll be your friend but we sort of have to be secret friends."
"Secret friends?"
"I know it sounds harsh but I can't risk anyone telling my mum or dad. So can this work out."
"Uh-yeah," I mumbled," b-but why do you wanna be friends with me?"
"Cause you're nice and I like you for some reason. Maybe because you don't let Reg get to you…," she trailed of thoughtfully.
Before we said good bye I asked her something a little weird.
"Andromeda-"
"ANDY!"
"-sorry, Andy. If you don't mind muggle-borns and half-bloods why are you in Slytherin?"
She looked at me strangely before answering, "Slytherin house values ambition, cunning, and resourcefulness, right. I'm ambitious, I'm rather cunning I suppose, and I'm fairly resourceful. It doesn't say evil in there does it?"
"No," I said startled.
"You see Lily a perfectly nice muggle-born could get into Slytherin just if they were ambitious enough. But I think everyone has a bit of every house in them. The hat thought of putting me in Ravenclaw but then decided I was more cunning instead of smart."
After that we said good bye and it's gotten me thinking. What she said about Slytherins. Oh well I won't think of that right now, it'll just make my head hurt.
So now I've got a 'secret' friend in Andromeda (oops, I mean Andy) Black.
A/N: Wow…I'm really, really sorry about my extreme lack of updates. I got sort of into video making for a while. Then I saw the Dark Knight and went back into my batman obsession… And I know this one's short but the next one will probably be short too. But then the one after that's long!
To all those who don't know I've know started a companion to this story from James's pov. (It was Dobbledore-97's idea) It's called James Potter's Personal Private JOURNAL. If you're a fan of this story check it out.
Thanks to my fantastic, amazing, marvelous, spectacular reviewers- TaylorxxSue, Kitty Queen, Smileysarah7, Dobbledore-97, theCullenboys, Cherrykisses21, knl2012, CassiexLynn.
TO THESE PEOPLE AND EVERYONE ELSE PLEASE REVIEW! THEY'LL DEFINITELY GIVE ME THE MOTIVATION TO SPEED UP THE WRITING PROCESS!
Thanks for reading. It will be updated soon, but I warn you that it'll be a short chapter. It shouldn't take long to write but I'm gonna be in San Diego for a week so don't expect anything for awhile. But still, love you all!
-Nicole