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Chapter Two: Head Boy And Girl

"James Potter." Lily muttered as though she couldn't believe it. "How on Earth did you get appointed Head Boy? Did Dumbledore have a laps in judgement?"

"Beats me." James shrugged, sitting down next to her. "Perhaps he had finally gone off his rocker as so many students have been saying for years…."

The corner of Lily's mouth twitched.

"Well, Dumbledore has his reasons I guess." Lily sighed. "Well I think we better go and tell the Prefects what they need to do." She added standing up.

"Okay." James said, also standing up.

They went over to the compartment right next to them. A bunch of fifth year students were sitting around, chatting to each other. James cleared his throat and they all looked up, expectedly.

"Right so," James began. "My name is James Potter and I shall be your Head Boy this year. This is Lily Evans, who will be our Head Girl. We both congratulate you all on becoming Prefects. Not everyone becomes a Prefect, so naturally it is something to be proud of. Now as you are all aware that He Who Must Not Be Named is about and Dumbledore has requested that the Prefects do their duty and patrol the school on a daily rotation. Both House Prefects from each house will be patrolling on a certain day and we, Lily and I, will be patrolling on another day. Weekends are free as the teachers patrol those days. Punishments as a Prefect are the same as the Heads except they cannot give out big punishments like fifty house points or a month's worth of detentions."

"Have I missed anything?" James added looking at Lily who was staring at him in shock.

Lily managed to process James' question just in time.

"N-No. I think you've covered it all." She said in a small voice.

"Right," James said returning his attention back to the group of students before him. "Now you have to patrol the corridors a bit and stop and any nonsense. Lily and I will be joining you as well, so if you have any questions, just come and find us."

The Prefects all stood and ambled out of the room. Lily still continued to gaze at James in disbelief. James chuckled to himself; he liked having that effect on Lily. Expect the unexpected, he thought as they too, excited the compartment.

"I think I'm going to change." Lily said after a few minutes of silence.

"Me too." James agreed as they walked down the corridor.

They hadn't walked ten paces before they heard a bang.

"Padfoot." James muttered and he quickened his pace with Lily jogging to catch up.

"Padfoot!" James shouted and as he did Sirius Black appeared holding a bag behind his back filled with long circular objects that Lily was sure were fireworks.

"'ello Prongs!" He said, looking him right in the eye. "How was the meeting with the rest of the Prefects?"

"Sirius-" Lily began but James cut her off saying "I got this."

"Padfoot, you cannot blow stuff up!" He said advancing on his friend. "You're my mate but that does not mean you can mess about!"

Lily looked taken aback. Was James Potter really stopping his best friend messing about? There was something new about this James Potter and Lily liked this new and improved James Potter. Grown and matured, that's what she liked to see.

"Prongs, buddy-"

"Go away and stop fighting first years! They are nervous enough as it is!" James snapped.

Sirius looked upset but retreated back into his compartment.

"Sorry about Padfoot," James said as soon as Sirius was out of sight. "Sometimes he can't handle himself."

"It's okay." Lily said.

She was definitely liking this new James Potter. Lets hope he can keep it up, she thought as they continued down the corridor.

"See ya in a bit!" James said as they reached their compartment.

Lily waved feebly before heading into her compartment and sitting down, staring into space.

"What's up with you?" Evangeline asked as she noticed Lily's expression.

Lily didn't answer; instead she kept staring into thin air, thinking about what had happened. Evangeline and Charlotte looked at each other.

"Uh, Lily?" Charlotte said waving her hand in front of her face. "Anyone in there?"

"What?" Lily turned and looked at them.

Both had concerned expressions.

"What?" Lily said again, sounding more annoyed.

Evangeline leaned back into her chair, looking smug. Charlotte caught her eye, Evangeline grinned at her. Charlotte looked a little lost for a moment before realisation dawned upon her. She grinned back at Evangeline.

"Really, what is it?" Lily asked crossing her arms.

"Someone likes the new Head Boy." Evangeline said with a smirk.

"Ew, no!" Lily said looking disgusted.

"She blushed!" Charlotte said dramatically pointing.

"Stop it guys!" Lily said, looking embarrassed.

"By the way who is the new Head Boy?" Charlotte asked.

"Lily?" The compartment door opened to reveal James Potter and Charlotte's question was answered. "You ready for patrol?"

Both Evangeline and Charlotte grinned. Lily shot them a look that said "Shut up now or else." before turning her attention to James.

"Give me a sec." Lily said to James and he nodded before sliding the compartment door shut.

"James Potter. The James Potter. Never thought this day would come." smirked Evangeline.

"Shut up!" Lily said to her before getting changed into her school robes and pinning her Head Girl badge to her chest.

All this time, Charlotte and Evangeline kept sending grins to each other. Lily wished they didn't. She wasn't even sure if she even liked him. Sure, he was good looking enough but his personality, now that's a different story. But when he was making that speech and telling Sirius off, Lily was sure that the old James may have matured into the new James and Lily liked the new James.

"James Potter." Evangeline said one last time before Lily exited the compartment, rolling her eyes.

Cannot believe they think I like him, okay he has matured and deflated his head and has those dreamy eyes, stop it Lil! You don't like him, okay?

"What kept ya?" James asked as she emerged from her compartment.

"Oh Charlotte and Evangeline wanted to know who was Head Boy." Lily said, setting off with him down the corridor.

James accepted this and continued walking. It was a moment before he spoke again.

"Were they surprised to find out it's me?"

"Yeah, I reckon." Lily answered.

After a while they found themselves at the very end of the train. Nothing had happened, well except for the fact that Lily issued a warning to a Slytherin fifth year about bullying younger students.

However the most interesting thing didn't happen until they were on the way back to their compartment after a couple of hours of patrolling. They came across a Slytherin seventh year student, but it was just any: it was Severus Snape, Lily's old friend. After calling her a Mudblood, Lily wanted nothing to do with him and therefore severed all ties with him. She hated him now but maybe not as much as James.

Snape was talking to a few of his friends, they were just hovering in the corridor. Lily recognized a few of them: Avery, Mulicbur and Nott. Lily loathed all of them. As they walked by, the Slytherins all turned to look at them with a menacing glare.

Lily found it odd that all James did was throw them a filthy look before continuing walking with Lily. Where was his wand? I thought he would have drawn it by now and threaten them in some way but instead he isn't doing anything.

We found ourselves back at our compartments a couple of hours later. In that time we had to tell off a fifth year Slytherin and a third year Hufflepuff for duelling, a second year Ravenclaw for trying to smuggle in illegal objects and three sixth year Gryffindors for doing something illegal that Lily did not want to know about.

Lily sound found herself outside her compartment in what seemed no time at all. James bade her farewell before opening his compartment and Lilly's hers. As soon as she stepped in she noticed her other friend Alice Summers was sitting in the compartment, chatting to Charlotte and Evangeline. Lily smiled as she sat down next to Charlotte.

"So?" Alice grinned, looking at Lily. "Is what I hear true?"

Lily's grinned faulted. She knew instantly what she was talking about.

"Evangeline, can you do me a favour?" Lily asked causally.

"Yeah what?" She asked.

"Shut up!" Lily said throwing one of her Defence Against The Dark Arts books at her.

Everyone laugh when it hit her in her arm.

"Sheesh, tell one little story and get hit in the arm with a book. What is this world coming to?" Evangeline said.

Everyone, even Lily laughed.

"So, what is everyone planning to do in their NEWT year?" Alice asked, clapping her hands together and looking eager.

"Well," Charlotte began. "I thought I would start the year off with a bit of studying you know? Just for a spot of fun. Around December, instead of celebrating Christmas, I could do more studying. By Easter, I thought I would move into more studying."

Everyone laughed again. Lily would laugh even more if Charlotte actually did all that. Alice looked out the window.

"We're nearly there!"

"Great!" Charlotte said. "I'm staving!"

A/N: I know it's short but I hope u enjoy it. (It's about time I uploaded something) Please REVIEW!