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Chapter 3- Attack

I woke up to Macy's incredibly loud alarm clock the day that we had to go back to Hogwarts. I know most people wouldn't be happy to go back to school but I was really excited. It wasn't because I didn't like being here at Macy's house but I loved Hogwarts. It was my true home.

"Girls, come on. Get up! It's time to get up so you won't miss the Hogwarts Express!" Macy's mom yelled up the staircase to Macy's room.

"Mace, hit the snooze button on you bloody alarm clock. I want to go to sleep," Marlene groaned. Marlene was always the hardest to get out of bed. I think that she would stay in bed for her whole life if no one came to get her out.

"No. Get up," Macy said.

"Macy Johnson, turn the blasted thing off!" Me and Macy looked at each other. We knew what we had to do. Macy got out of bed and went downstairs. I grabbed the alarm clock and turned it off. "Thank you!" Marlene said. I laughed silently as Macy came back with a heavy bucket full of ice cold water. I got up to help her and grabbed one end of the bucket. We quietly approached her bed and dumped the water on her head. "Aaaaaahhhhhh! You idiots! How could you do that?" Marlene shrieked. Me and Macy had fallen to the floor and started laughing hysterically. "Hey! It's not funny!"

"Sorry Marly," I said. "But you have got to admit that it was really funny. The look on your face."

"Yeah. It was," Macy agreed. Marlene gave us her "Shut up now or you'll face the consequences glare" and me and Macy fell silent.

"All right girls, stop playing around and get ready We have to leave in an hour," Macy's mom said, appearing at the doorway with a smile on her face.

"Ok Mrs. Johnson," me and Marlene replied politely. "I get the bathroom first due to my rude awakening by you two," Marlene snapped at us after Mrs. Johnson left the room. Me and Macy went into another fit of giggles as Marlene grumpily grabbed her stuff and went to the bathroom. Me and Macy went downstairs to get some breakfast as Marlene finished. In the kitchen we found pancakes and sausages waiting for us at the table. I loved pancakes!

"Thank you so much Mrs. Johnson. It's delicious," I said.

"You're welcome sweetheart," she replied. As soon as I finished my breakfast, I heard Marlene come out of the bathroom I looked at Macy, silently asking her who was going to go first.

"You go first," she said. I went up to her room to pick up the outfit I had chosen for today: dark mid-thigh jeans shorts (it was still pretty warm outside), a green tank top , and a blue sweater. After quickly brushing my teeth and taking a shower, I started doing my hair. I brushed my red elbow length curls and then put it in a high ponytail, leaving my side bangs out.

I walked back to Macy's room to find her waiting for me. "Marly's downstairs eating breakfast," she said, before walking out to the bathroom. I grabbed my trunk and took it downstairs to the front door for when we left. Then I walked to the kitchen to sit by Marlene.

"Lily, I don't want to go back to Hogwarts," she groaned.

"Why not?" I asked, surprised. She loves Hogwarts just as much as I did.

"Because I have to see Black again." I broke out laughing. Of all the things she could worry or think about, it was Sirius. She was so in love.

"Really Mar?" I said, laughing.

"No, not really. I know that we shouldn't be all upset and everything and all nostalgic because we still have like two years left but Lils, this means that we're one year closer to leaving Hogwarts. One year closer to going out into the real world. One year closer to putting everything behind us. And who knows what's going to happen by then?" she said, tears filling her eyes. I understand what she was feeling. I really did. I didn't want to leave Hogwarts just as much as her. Hogwarts was my home. I got up and went to sit right next to her.

Patting her shoulder, I said, "Hey, don't worry. We'll be fine. We have two years left. They are going to go by pretty fast even though we wish it wouldn't. Bt we can't do anything about that." Taking her hand and looking into her eyes I said, "What we can do is make the best of them. Me and you Marly? We're going to rock these next two years. Without thinking about Potter and Black." Marlene burst out laughing and tears rolled down her cheeks. I smiles, glad that I made her feel better. She leaned in towards me, her arms outstretched for a hug that I returned.

"Thanks Lils," Marlene said into my shoulder.

"No problem," I said as we heard Macy come out of the bathroom. "Let's go." Macy's dad worked in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office so he sent us two taxis to get to the train station. One for us and one for our trunks. After putting our trunks into the taxi we got into ours.

When we reached the station, we just grabbed one cart for all of our trucks. After putting our trucks into the taxi we got into ours.

When we reached the station, we just grabbed one cart for all of our trunks. "So girls who's going to go first?" Macy's mom said.

"All of us," Marlene said firmly, not caring that it would look suspicious if three girls were all walking towards a wall. But we did anyway and stepped onto Platform Nine and Three Quarters, Mrs. Johnson quickly following with our cart. Now it was time for goodbyes.

"Bye Mrs. Johnson!" me and Marlene said in unison. "Thank you so much for having us over this summer."

"Oh anytime sweethearts. Bye Mace," she said turning towards her daughter, giving her a hug.

"Bye Mom," Macy replied.

We got onto the train and from the window we heard Mrs. Johnson telling us to behave and have fun as the Hogwarts Express started to move. We tried finding an empty compartment but found that Alice, Kathy, and Lizzy had already found one and were engrossed in a conversation. And then the compartment was full of screams and "I missed you so much"s.

"So what did we interrupt?" Macy said.

"Well Alice here was telling us how her mom let her go to Frank's for a month," Kathy said.

"No way! She actually let you?" Marlene said.

"Yes! And not just that but they shagged too!" Liz said.

"WHAT?" I said.

"Who shagged who?" Sirius said appearing in our compartment with Remus behind him and Potter (ugh!) with a little girl. "Hello Lilyflower!" Sirius said plopping down next to me and putting his arm around my shoulders. He was the only one who could get away with calling me that.

"Hey Sirius. Hey Remus," I said kindly to him who still hadn't sat down yet.

"Remus, sit,"Alice said. He took a seat next to Macy.

"And who is this little girl?" Kathy asked the question that was on all of our minds.

"Hey! I'm not a little girl. I'm eleven years old," she said. So, she was a cute little first year with dirty blond hair and hazel eyes exactly like Potter's.

Potter chuckled. "This, ladies, is my little sister Alexa." And she was Potter's sister. Great. But I couldn't judge her until I knew her personally.

"I love that name," I told her.

Then, all of a sudden, her glare became a sweet little angelic smile. "Thank you!" she said perkily. This girl was adorable.

"Lily, we need to go to the prefect meeting," Remus said.

"Oh I totally forgot. Thanks for reminding me Remus. Let's go," I said. We got up and headed to the prefects compartment.

"So, how was your summer?" Remus asked.

"Well the two weeks I stayed with my mom were the worst part since my sister was there. Oh and guess what? She has a boyfriend. Who in their right mind would go out with Petunia? I just don't understand but according to my mom they're "in love" so…. yeah. But when I was with my dad and went to stay with Marlene and Macy it was really awesome," I ranted. Remus was looking at me with an amused expression on his face. "So how was your summer?"

"Well, definitely not as exciting or eventful as yours but," Remus said, both of us laughing, "I did have some fun hanging out with Prongs, Wormtail, and Padfoot." We had reached the prefect compartment and he slid the door open for me.

"Lily! Remus! It's so good to see you guys!" Molly Prewett said, approaching us, her arms extended towards us for hugs. Molly was the Head Girl this year along with her boyfriend, red-headed Arthur Weasley as Head Boy. Everyone knew that those to Gryffindors would get the position. They were just so sweet. And yes, Molly is related to Alice. They're cousins.

"Hey Molly. Congratulations on Head Girl! I knew you would get it," I said. "Hey Arthur!"He had just appeared next to Molly.

"Hey guys," he said.

"Hey Arthur! Congratulations to the both of you," Remus said.

"Thank you!" they said in unison. "All right guys. So let's get started," Arthur said loudly, beginning the meeting.

"I am so happy to see all of you great people again and I hope that we can work hard together to make this an amazing year. Sixth years, we expect you to help our new prefects understand their duties just like you were helped. You will be expected to patrol the corridors two times a week as well," Molly said.

"I have your patrol schedules. We won't keep you guys for long since you already know the drill. You can go now but fifth years stay as we would like to explain your duties to you," Arthur said. All of us sixth years got up and took our schedules from Arthur as we exited the compartment.

"I already feel like sixth year is going to kill me," I said.

"Yup. NEWT year: more work, less fun. Maybe it'll get my friends to shut up for a bit," Remus said.

"I actually think that's pretty impossible."

"Yeah, I agree." We had reached the Marauder's compartment. Remus slid it open and the three boys who had been playing Exploding Snaps looked up.

"The meeting was that short?" Peter asked.

"Yeah, they felt that since we're sixth years and already knows what to do, we didn't need to sit through that whole thing again," Remus said, plopping down next to Potter.

"I'm going to get back to the girls. Bye guys," I said.

"Bye Lilyflower!" Sirius shouted, even though I was still standing in front of him. I would never understand this boy. I turned to exit the compartment.

"Wait, Evans!" Potter said. I don't know why I turned around. I really don't. I don't understand what was going through my head at that moment but I actually turned around to listen to what Potter was about to say.

"What, Potter?" I said harshly.

"Go out with me?" he said, cheekily.

"No," I said coldly.

"Why not?" he challenged. I looked at him incredulously. Was he seriously asking me that stupid question? I don't understand what part of no he didn't understand the thousands of times he asked me out. He just like to watch me blow up.

"Are you seriously asking me that question?" I said, my voice deadly. When he didn't respond I continued, "Well here's the thing! I don't particularly know where to start. You're an arrogant bullying toerag, Potter. Why can't you understand that? You use your talent in magic to humiliate, hex, and hurt people. You think that makes you look tough? Well it doesn't! Girls don't look for guys that could possibly break up with them in public. You think that just because you're a Quidditch player you can do whatever you want. Messing up your hair all the time. Hurting people for the fun of it. Asking me out every second of every day won't make me go out 'made me say all that but I think that I shouldn't have even answered him in the first place. I think that I needed to get all of that rage inside of me out. And now Potter looked hurt.

"Really Evans?" he said, his voice oddly quiet.

"James," Sirius said, urgently warning him to stop what he was about to say. Potter stood up and looked me in the eye.

"Well most girls would be pretty flattered that a guy asked them out every day but not perfect prefect Lily Evans. I don't know why I even try. It's useless with you."

"Prongs," Sirius warned again.

"You are not even worth the rejection or pain I go through. You're so uptight and strict all the time. You can never let loose Evans. You can never for the life of you sit back and relax. Newsflash Evans you're not perfect. You should be glad that I even ask you out because no other guy would." That was like a slap to my face. How could he say that? Tears sprung to my eyes. Boys were definitely my weakness but he always pranked or hurt any guy that so much as looked at me. I quickly turned on my heel and stormed out of the compartment.

James POV

"WHAT DID YOU SO?" Sirius fumed, rising from his chair. I don't know what compelled me to say that but I really do love Lily. I loved her so much that it scared me. I knew she wasn't any of what I said and I knew she didn't think she was perfect. I knew that she would be asked out by a guy everyday if I didn't hex every guy that looked at her. I guess I was just so mad about what she said to me. I tried so hard to impress her but in the end it didn't matter.

"Prongs just because someone upset you-" Remus began.

"Someone?" Sirius yelled incredulously. "This isn't just someone. This is Lily Evans we're talking about. Sweet, innocent, Lily Evans who everyone loves. She knows that she's not perfect and she's not uptight. She knows how to have fun and she's a really great person to hang around. And the reason guys aren't drooling over her, which they would, is that they're scared that you'll murder them in their sleep. Why would you say that to her?"

"I don't know. I just-" I started but Sirius interrupted.

"Oh I know why: you're a git," Sirius said glaring at me.

"All right you two need to stop fighting right now. Sirius don't fight with him over this. I'm not saying that what he said was right. James what you said to Lily was wrong and I'm very disappointed in you especially because guys don't ask her out because of you. And I hope you realize that you pretty much broke her with what you said. Lils doesn't have the highest self esteem and now you pretty much destroyed any chance of getting her to go out with you," Remus said, a frown on his face. At least he wasn't glaring like Sirius.

"I don't understand what you want me to say. I didn't mean to say that to her and if I could take it back I would but I can't. You know that I love Lily. But you don't know that I try so hard to impress her but it doesn't work with her-"now Remus interrupted me.

"It's Lily, James. She's not like other girls. She likes guys that don't act like jerks all the time. Why aren't you showing her the real you? The one that everyone loves not the one who is a prat. You don't have to act different around her. She'll love you back for who you are."

"So what you're saying is that I have to stop having fun?" I asked.

"That's not what he's saying idiot," Sirius said. Merlin was he mad. Didn't know he cared that much about her. "What he's saying is that you have to stop hexing people in front of her, especially Snivellus." I made a face. "Hey I don't like this either but I'd rather Lily at least get along with you than hate you. And no more harmful pranks, she only likes the innocent ones." That was true. She did laugh at those.

"Fine,' I said reluctantly. "But I know it won't work. She'll always hate me."

"That's not true James. Just give it some. It's a work in progress. Sirius I think this will also help you with Marlene," Remus said. Sirius narrowed his eyes. Bad move Moony.

Marlene was a touchy subject for Sirius. I knew he loved her and he even told me that he did but didn't tell Remus or Peter. Remus just knew and Peter was just clueless. It annoyed Sirius that she went out with a ton of boys but hated and wouldn't go out with him. Just like Lily.

"So what are we doing for our Beginning of the Year prank?" Peter asked breaking the awkward silence. And just like that we were discussing our prank that would start of our sixth year.

Lily POV

I ran back to the compartment before I started crying. I didn't like crying in front of anyone, not even my friends but I'd rather cry in front of anyone, not even my friend but I'd rather cry in front of them than anyone else. Before entering the compartment I tried to pull it together but I'm pretty sure that I still looked upset. When I stepped in, Marlene's head snapped up and as a great best friend she automatically knew that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" she asked. I couldn't take it. That one question broke me into a fit of tears.

"Lily, what happened?" Alice said, looking really shocked. They all did. I never cried around them, only around Marlene.

"Is it the Snape boy? If it is I will go find him and pummel him until-" Kathy began angrily but I interrupted her.

"No it wasn't' him," I said.

"Is it Potter?" Marlene asked quietly. I cried even harder.

"Lily, he always asks you out and it never upsets you this much!" Liz said.

"Lizzy obviously she is crying and upset because he did something much worse than ask her out. Lils what did he do?" Macy asked.

"He-he- he said that I wasn't worth it and that I was a pain. He said that I was uptight and boring. He said that I thought I was perfect and that no guy would even bother to look twice at me. Is that what people really think of me? Is that what other people think when they look at me?" I cried even harder which I thought was impossible. Marlene and Kathy looked murderous and had their wands out.

"Kathy," Marlene said. With that one word she understood and they rose simultaneously heading toward the compartment door.

"NO!" Macy, Alice, and Liz yelled when they realized what they were about to do. Macy pulled Kathy back and Liz and Alice held Marlene since she was harder to contain.

"Let go of us!" Marlene yelled. Then the compartment door opened revealing Sirius and Remus. When they saw my face they knew that I told the girls.

"Look McKinnon we already yelled at Prongs so can you and Kathy calm down?" Sirius said tiredly.

"Yelled at him! I don't care. He is going to be hexed by me if it is the last thing I do! Do you understand Black?" Marlene yelled, still struggling to break free of Alice and Lizzy.

"Guys just let it go," I said quietly. Kathy reluctantly stopped trying to escape and Marlene soon followed. Sirius and Remus both sat on either side of me, Sirius putting his arm around my shoulder.

"I hope you know he didn't mean it," Sirius began.

"Ok you know what Black? He's lucky enough that I didn't hex him into next week. Stop making excuses for him. He's a bloody git and needs to be put in his place. He had no right to say that to her!" Marlene said furiously.

"Marlene, he was just-" Remus started.

"Don't you dare make excuses for him Remus Lupin!" Macy burst out.

"Girls, he really didn't mean to-" Sirius tried again.

"Black if you don't leave now so Merlin help me I will hex you so badly you won't be able to have children," Marlene threatened. Sirius actually looked scared.

"Sirius come on. Lily I hope you feel better," Remus said, getting up and grabbing Sirius with him.

"Yeah Lilyflower. If you need to talk I'll always be there," Sirius said, ruffling my hair.

"Thanks guys," I called after them.

"Lily are you sure you don't want us to hurt Potter?" Kathy asked. I nodded.

"I don't understand why," Marlene said, a fire blazing in her eyes.

"Guys just don't worry about it. I'll be fine," I said leaning my head on Marlene's shoulder. They all rose and gave me a big hug. I smiled for having them. With their help I would be perfectly fine. As the Hogwarts Express got closer to Hogwarts they began changing into their robes.

James POV

Me and Sirius were getting ready for the prank. Sitting at the Gryffindor table, our wantd in our hands we were waiting for the new first years to come in. our prank would star just before the Sorting.

The doors of the Great Hall opened but instead of first years came a whole bunch of Aurors including my parents. The loud and noisy Great Hall fell silent. "We are sorry to say that there has been a devastating Death Eater attack on Hogsmeade. Many were hurt and killed. Professor Dumbledore, may the wounded stay for the night?" my dad said.

"Of course. Were any Hogwarts students hurt?" Dumbledore asked, worry filling his usually calm voice. Most of them were here. If any were hurt it was probably because they were later than everyone else.

"Just one but not by a Death Eater. There was an older Slytherin who knew about the attack and hurt her as they were some of the later people to find a carriage," my mom said.

"May I know who Mrs. Potter?" Dumbledore asked. I hadn't noticed them before but when I saw those five tear stained faces I felt my face go pale.

"Lily Evans."

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