Love is Pride and Moneys Conqueror

Chapter One: The Beginning

"Miss Evans! Miss Evans! The Charms Club is having a meeting this Saturday and I know you've been able to worm out of most of most of my little meetings but I don't think you will this time! Please give me the utmost pleasure of having you come!" Lily's short, and chubby charms professor said to her, wagging one of his short, sausage like fingers at her.

"I have a lot of homework this week professor and 2 papers due next week. Maybe when the next one comes around I won't be so busy," Lily answered.

"Yes, Yes! Can't have you falling behind now because of me!"

"Yes Professor," Lily spoke, trying not to show that she was speaking through gritted teeth. As he waddled back towards his desk, Lily's friend Jessica burst out laughing.

"Lily, I think that he competes with your sister's boyfriend for the title 'Whale' "

Lily chuckled. "That would be fiance."

"It's kind of weird."

"What is?"

"Your sister is extremely skinny, like, borderline anorexic and the Whale is extremely fat. It's like all his fat make for her lack of it."

Lily didn't get a chance to reply.

"Class! Class! The potion for today is on the blackboard. Just by looking at the instructions, can somebody tell me what the potion is?"

Everyone looked at the instructions briefly, and then went back to what they were doing before. Mainly, that was sleeping, passing notes or whispering to each other. Lily looked at them, wondering if they knew how lucky they were to be able to even be in this classroom. Sighing, she rolled her eyes and raised her hand.

"Yes Miss Evans?" Flyerby asked. Before Lily could answer the door to the classroom burst open and the four boys strolled in laughing, late, but that was pretty typical. All four had neglected to wear the complete school uniform but then again, they weren't technically required to.

"What did we miss?" James asked, yawning.

"Well, Miss Evans," Flyerby began.

"Ah! Nothing! Carry on then," James cut in, yawning. Everyone laughed at this. Well, everyone except Lily. Even Jess cracked a smile.

"Very well then Mr. Potter. Your answer, please, Miss Evans?"

"It's a charm called Dissoldium. It's used to clean wizarding spills such as potions and other substances that cannot just be cleaned easily. It is highly dangerous and if it goes wrong you should get medical attention immediately because it can and will dissolve your skin if the liquid you are trying to clean gets on you," Lily rattled off like textbook.

"Very good Miss Evans! Five points for the name and ten for the description!"

Jess elbowed Lily. She liked to poke fun at Lily for always knowing the answer to professor's questions. In response Lily elbowed her back. It was a game they played in class to keep occupied during boring lessons. The first person to laugh lost. Jess normally cracked first and Lily would triumphantly smirk at her before going back to taking notes. It lasted two minutes before Jess burst out laughing.

"Miss Sanders. Do you have something you would like to share with the class?"

"No Professor."

Alright then now,"

He continued on rambling and Jess turned to Lily who simply raised an eyebrow and smirked. Jess rolled her eyes and turned back to the front of the room. James Potter also turned back to whatever he was doing before he had been distracted. It was funny to see Sanders fall to the petite redhead sitting in front of him. He then became puzzled, and that was one thing James Potter did not like to be. He hadn't seen the redhead at any high end society functions. Looking at her more closely he realized why. She was obviously a scholarship student, everything about her said so. From the way she was paying attention so intently to her secondhand robes. What had the dwarf called her? Evan? He didn't really care of course. She was just another person in the sea of faces that worshiped the ground he walked on.

"Swish and then jab Jess, not the other way around. Honestly, why are you taking this class again?"

"My mother forced me to," Jess told her sadly. Lily sighed and turned to her own pile of goop. All was quiet between the two for a few minutes until Lily felt Jess tap her on the shoulder,

"Um, Lily? I think I waved my wand wrong again."

"How could you mess-OH DEAR," she said wearily.

Jess's goop was definitely messed up. The goop was stating to boil and turn weird colors.

"Jess! What did you do?!"

"I swished then jabbed but I might have added another swish?" Jess said tentatively, making it sound like a question.

"Jessica Sanders! Didn't you listen to me when I said that it's dangerous?!"

All hell broke lose then.

The goop turned lava red and exploded and Lily yelled "Get Down!" and ducked under the table with Jess, But the people behind them either didn't here her or didn't know how bad Jess was at Charms.

"What in the bloody hell just happened?" a deep baritone thundered out behind them. Lily and Jess gulped at the same time and turned around to face the voice.