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Chapter 4: Dumbledore And The Heads

Lily was the first to awake the next morning and the first in the Great Hall that morning. Lily had awoken in a panic: somehow, the idea that she was late had gotten into her head and so Lily had dressed like a mad person and had ran to the Great Hall like a manic. It wasn't until she had reached the Great Hall and had noticed she was the first there and the time was only seven in the morning did Lily think that maybe she was a little too early. As soon as he saw her, Dumbledore grinned.

"Ah, Miss Evans!" he said loudly. "Do come in! I believe you are the first to join us!"

"Yes Professor." Lily answered walking rather nervously towards the Staff Table. "I do believe I am."

"Well, have a large breakfast: I'm sure you'll need it for your day ahead. Professor McGonagall," He said turning to her. "What does Miss Evans have on her timetable today? Nothing to bad I hope!" he added smirking.

McGonagall didn't answer instead gave her timetable with a small smile playing around her mouth. Lily took the piece of parchment and saw that she had Transfiguration first followed by Charms, then after break was double Potions (dammit, still with the Slytherins!) and the after lunch she had Defence Against The Dark Arts and then to round the day off, Lily noticed she had a study break.

"Good day?" Dumbledore asked her.

"Yes Professor."

"Oh by the way Miss Evans," she turned back to him. "Congratulations I believe are in order for becoming Head Girl."

"Thanks Professor." Lily said deciding it would be best not to question his choice of Head Boy.

"Also, can you and Mr Potter meet me in my office after dinner? I have something to show you." Professor Dumbledore continued.

"Yes sir!" Lily said.

Lily then turned around and took a seat. Casually, she grabbed some toast and began putting eggs on them. Half an hour later, Lily had finished breakfast and went up to get her books and her bag for Transfiguration. Noise erupted from the Entrance Hall and Lily noticed the rest of the school had decided to come to breakfast at last. It was in Transfiguration class that Lily's friends had decided to join her.

"There you are!" Charlotte said, exasperated.

"Where in Merlin's name, have you been?" Evangeline asked.

"Where've been looking for you all morning!" Alice said.

Lily explained her quite hysterical, in Charlotte's opinion, morning.

"So what do you reckon Dumbledore wants?" Mary asked waving her wand at her lizard she was supposed to be transfiguring into a rabbit but failing miserably.

"Beats me." Lily said tapping her lizard and with a small pop, the once lizard, was now a fluffy white bunny snuffling at her notes.

"Very good Miss Evans." Came Professor McGonagall's voice from behind them. "Ten points to Gryffindor."

Lily looked rather pleased while her friend Mary certainly did not. By the end of the lesson, Lily quickly packed up and ran to catch up with James and his friends.

"Oy! Potter!" She yelled.

James turned so fast you would have though he had moved at the speed of light.

"Yes Evans?" He asked trying to sound casual but Lily knew he was thinking something along the lines of "Oh my God, Evans is talking to me, to me!"

"Can we walk and talk while we head to Charms?" Lily asked catching up to him.

"Of course!" He said with his eyes glinting.

Carefully, Lily explained what Professor Dumbledore had said. James listened and nodded.

"I'll meet you in the Entrance Hall shall I?" She asked him as they reached Flitwick's classroom.

"Alright then." He said grinning and turning around to sit with his friends.

Lily smirked and walked towards he friends. Charms was the ideal classroom to hold a conversation. Everyone was too interested in their work to pay any attention to what anyone else was doing. As soon as Lily took her usual seat next to Evangeline and Charlotte, all her friends began asking questions about what had just happened. Lily raised her hands to silence them and in a very small voice, she told them what she had told Potter.

"Well if Potter is involved then I reckon it's something to do with the Heads." Alice said flicking her wand at the poster in front of her.

They were practicing some old spells today. This lesson they were going over Permanent Sticking Charms, Imperturbable Charms and Unbreakable Charms.

"Yeah, I thought of that too." Lily said waving her wand at her poster before her.

Lily lowered her wand to check if it had indeed stuck to the backboard they were practicing on.

"Is it on there?" Alice asked.

"Yes."

"Ten minutes before we change." Professor Flitwick's voice made them all jump. "I except everyone to have finished by then at least."

Forty minutes later, they were all emerging from Charms for break. Lily kept looking over at Potter and his mates. They were huddled together by the lake. Lily wondered what they were up to. Something she didn't want to know about probably.

"Lily, why are you staring at Potter again?" Alice asked.

"What?" Lily broke her stare and looked at her friends. "I'm not. Just zoned out."

She could see that her friends knew she was lying but didn't push it.

"Oh look!" Alice said rather excited. "There's Frank!"

Alice quickly fixed her hair and walked rather quickly towards the boy she had pointed to. He smiled when he saw her and put his arm around her.

"Don't you just love, love?" Charlotte said with a smile as Frank kissed Alice.

They all grinned.

"Did you hear they already made plans to move in together after Hogwarts?" Mary said.

They all nodded.

"They've grown up so fast!" Evangeline said, pretending to be a teary-eyed mother.

They all laughed.

"Come on," Lily said as she heard a bell ring. "That's the bell. Double Potions."

The rest of the day passed in the same manner as the morning. They received more or less the same amount of homework as they expected and by study period, Lily was completely hung up on why James Potter wasn't acting the way he was acting.

Instead of hexing people just for the fun of it, he was walking down the corridors chatting with people he knew. Instead of congratulating a student, if they had just done a very successful prank, he was telling them off. Lily was completely amazed at this. Also, as if it was an added bonus, James had only talked to her twice today: once about Dumbledore's meeting and asking (rather politely she had noticed and without any hints of romance) if he could borrow some ink as Sirius had stolen his. Lily could not simply work out what had causes James Potter to change all of a sudden.

"Lily? Isn't the point of study period is to study?" Alice asked once again pulling Lily out of her daydreams.

"What?" Lily turned around to look at her.

They were in Professor Vector's classroom for their study break. Charlotte was re-reading her potions book, Evangeline was doing her Transfiguration essay and Alice had stopped halfway through her Potions homework. Lily looked down at her blank paper. She noticed she hadn't even started hers.

"You okay Lily?' Alice asked peering into her face. "You seem kind of distracted lately. Is everything okay?"

"Yeah," Lily said dipping her quill into her inkpot. "Everything is just fine."

"You sure?"

"Yes!" Lily snapped back as she wrote her introduction.

Alice rolled her eyes as she went back to her homework.

Dinner pasted without any more mention of James Potter which Lily was relieved by. She had already wasted her day thinking about him and she didn't want her dinner wasted as well. After half an hour of dinner, Lily noticed James getting up from the table. I guess he was done and was ready to meet up with her. Lily also got up and received good luck wishes from her friends. After a few seconds of looking, Lily spotted James leaning on the Grand Staircase, waiting for her. As Lily made her way towards him, he grinned and Lily swore she returned it.

"Well," James said as soon as Lily had made her way towards him. "Shall we do this?"

Lily nodded and they made their way towards Dumbledore's office. Once again, Lily wondered what Dumbledore wants with them.

"So," James said trying to strike up a conversation. "Have you done Slughorn's essay yet?"

"I started it in Study and I'm going finish it after this. You?"

"Nah," James said. "I'm going to do it in Study tomorrow."

Lily nodded. She could not believe she was having another civil conversation with James. She hadn't yelled, he hadn't asked her out, she hadn't thrown a book at him and he hadn't made a move on her. What is this world coming to?

They soon moved on to the Transfiguration homework. Lily found it that he was actually easy to talk to, just as easy as talking to any of her friends. The topic of Transfiguration took them all the way towards Dumbledore's office. When they got there, Lily realised she didn't know the password.

"Uh, Potter?" She asked them. "Do you know the password?"

"No, I don't." He said looking at the Gargoyle. "Guess we'll have to wait for Professor Dumbledore to collect us."

"What if he is already inside waiting for us?" Lily said, her heart sinking horribly.

James opened his mouth to speak but a voice from behind them answered their question.

"Ah, Mr Potter and Miss Evans!"

"Is that who I think it is?" Lily said.

"It must be!" James said grinning.

Professor Dumbledore waltzed into view. He eyes twinkled down upon them.

"Shall we?"

They nodded. Dumbledore pivoted on his feet and began walking down the corridor. Lily and James looked at each other.

"Um, Professor Dumbledore?" Lily started nervously. "Aren't we going up to your office?"

"No we aren't." Dumbledore said with a smile on his face. "Follow me."

Lily and James looked at each other again before running to catch up. They followed Dumbledore down to the sixth floor, through a door Lily never knew existed and down the corridor. They were in a long corridor that connected to quite a few different corridors. Dumbledore led them down about halfway before he stopped in front of a painting of handsome looking knight who had a phoenix on his shoulder

"Good day Headmaster." The knight said.

"Hello Lancelot." Dumbledore said.

"Are these the new heads?" The knight called Lancelot asked.

"Yes." Dumbledore said, the twinkle in his eyes returning.

Lancelot grinned as he swung forward. Dumbledore climbed in and Lily and James also did. They emerged into a spacious room. There was a warm roaring fire in the grate, there were bookcases filled with books, there were large comfy chairs near the fire surrounding a nice table. The portraits on the walls began to look eagerly at the new arrivals. Lily was impressed as she looked around. One look at James told Lily that he too, was deeply impressed. The thing that was on Lily mind was: what is this place? James seemed to read Lily, seeing that he voiced the question on her mind.

"Professor Dumbledore, what is this place?" James asked, still looking impressed.

"This is the Heads Room." Dumbledore answered. "It is the place where in past years, the Head Boy and Head Girl have come to work, study etc. It certainly helps to get away from the hustle and bustle of school. I remembered I once used this room when I was Head Boy. There is just one thing. Each new set of Heads create a different password for Lancelot. You can change it as often as you want."

"We get to make up a password?" James said eagerly.

Dumbledore nodded before turning to leave.

"Just remember to tell Lancelot." He said while climbing out of the portrait hole.

"This room is fantastic." Lily said after a while.

"Yeah, it isn't?" James said looking around again. "Plus we get to make up the password. This is sweet."

"I think we should keep the password and this room to ourselves. I don't want you and your gang to be making up pranks in here."

"Yeah, you have a point there." James said.

Wait! Did he just agree to keep this a thing between us? Maybe he has changed…

"So what should we make the password?" I asked him.

"Something that is important to both of us." James said. "Something like Hogwarts."

"Why Hogwarts?" Lily asked.

"Well to you: Hogwarts meant an entirely different world; a world you didn't even know existed. To me: it means sort of the same thing."

"What do you mean?" Lily asked sounding interested.

"Well you know my parents are very influential, rich and powerful. Well to me, it is a place where I can be myself without the expectations of my parents."

"Wow, that's deep." Lily said.

Their eyes met. Silence took over as both of them stared at each other. Lily soon realised what she was doing and quickly looked away.

"So you think the password should be to do with Hogwarts?"

"Yeah."

"How about Phoenix tears? It was the first creature I found out when I came to Hogwarts. Plus the tears defeat Basilisk venom which is the creature of Slytherin and we hate Slytherins." Lily added with a grin.

"I like it." James grinned.

Their eyes met once again before Lily turned at left.

A/N: Just a quick update as I AM ON HOLIDAY =D Hopefully this is an enjoyable update.