A/N: Aloha my friends! This is going to be the third chapter of CoM!

I'm afraid that today, I leave for my holidays, so this is going to have to do until January 2nd to 3rd!

The song from this chapter is by Papa Roach, and its called Last Resort. I think this one suits Lily, don't you?

Other A/n at the bottom of the page!

Chapter 3 - Don't Underestimate A Muggleborn

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I never realized I was spread too thin

Till it was too late and I was empty within

Hungry, feeding on chaos and living in sin

Downward spiral, where do I begin

It all started when I lost my mother

No love for myself and no love for another

Searching to find a love upon a higher level

Finding nothing but questions and devils

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"And a sharp jab will make it immediately silence ….."

James yawned as Professor Flitwick's voice droned on about the silencing charm.

Ruffling his hair with one hand, he heard the group of girls behind him sigh in unison.

He grinned.

'Works every time.'

Sirius was drooling onto the table with his head under his arms on his left side.

Remus sat on his right, diligently taking notes, and occasionally stopping to glare at Sirius while he snored.

Peter sat on Sirius's left, chewing his fingernails, and randomly jotting down anything that sounded hard and important, a puzzled expression on his face.

James's attention wandered as his eyes roamed, and they finally landed on Lily's bent frame at the isolated back of the class.

She was sitting hunched in her chair, with her hair in a scrunchie, biting her lips as she hastily wiped her ink stained hands to avoid smudging her notes.

'What is it with these people and taking notes? Isn't it the practical that counts?'

Lily suddenly scrunched up her nose as it looked like she had copied down something wrongly and hissed quietly under her breath.

James, startled by the noise, got rid of his previous detachment, and watched with avid interest.

Lily got up and bent under the table, over her bag to unclasp it.

When she had retrieved a spare piece of parchment, her head hit the underside of the table with a dull thud.

Everyone ignored the sound, and Flitwick continued his lecture.

Grumbling, Lily appeared from underneath the table, one hand clutching the side of her head.

She suddenly stumbled on her shoelace, and crashed headfirst into her table, knocking over her inkbottle.

James stifled a laugh.

Cursing, she siphoned away the ink, only to slip on it and bang her hip on the table.

Glaring, Lily straightened up and kicked the bane of her existence.

"Ms Evans, do you really find it necessary to create such loud noises?"

The class tittered.

Red in face, Lily sank down into her chair resignedly, and plopped her face onto the table.

Right into the ink.

James grinned at the angry splutters and turned towards the front of the class.

Not voluntarily of course, but because Remus was currently scowling at his lack of attention, and was poking him with a really sharp quill.

'Must be that time of the month.'

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"All right class, settle down, settle down, I have something to announce today."

The buzz in the classroom died down as all attention turned to Professor Durnik, this year's DADA teacher.

Garion Durnik was a renowned retired Auror who had come to teach them at Dumbledore's request.

He was generally a smiling man, who was known, not only for his exceptional dueling skills, but also for his generosity.

"Today, I have decided to give in to your requests, and have arranged for you to participate….in a duel!"

The students let out a cheer.

"Finally!" yelled Sirius over the noise, "I thought he was never going to agree!"

Durnik waited until the class had calmed down again.

"I will firstly call out a name of a person. If your name has been called out, please come out and stand in front of the class. When that has been carried out, I want one of you to volunteer to duel my chosen one."

"Ready? Good. Lily Evans!"

Lily quickly scampered to the front of the class, and nervously fiddled with the lapels of her school robes as she stood next to the Professor.

Being under the scrutiny of dozens of eyes is not very pleasant.

"Well? Who's going to volunteer?"

Silence.

"Come on, don't tell me you're all scared."

"Yeah! For her!" Yelled a voice from the back of the room.

"Excuse me?" Professor Durnik's face was stern.

"Its true Professor," stuttered a girl at the front of the class, "everyone knows that Evans is all words and no actions. She's just so…so….fragile!

"And on top of that, she's a muggleborn, and everyone knows that all muggleborns are weak, and…."

"Miss Eons, that enough!"

The girl stuttered to a stop and the Professor's order, not because of the words, but because of his livid expression.

Lily, on the other hand, looked cool and collected, as opposed to what she was feeling on the inside.

She was hurt, yes, but she was also boiling mad.

She could feel her magic gathering underneath her palms, and her wand began to vibrate.

"Professor! I volunteer!"

The class was shocked out of silence at the cheerful voice.

James Potter jauntily walked down the isle towards the front of class, smirking.

His classmates shouted encouragements at him.

"Good luck James, not that you need it, of course!"

"Go show her!"

"She'll probably cry over a broken nail, it'll be a piece of cake!"

Drawing out his wand, he situated himself opposite Lily, clearly thinking that this was going to be a piece of cake.

"Scared Evans?"

"You wish Potter"

Professor Durnik nodded towards them, and walked towards the edge of the dueling platform, which had been suddenly raised, in case intervention was needed.

The opponents bowed.

"Begin in one, two, THREE!"

Lily dodged out of the way from the 'Expelliarmus' she knew was coming.

Quickly firing one of her own disarming charms, she moved as far as she could from James, knowing that he would have difficulty hexing over a long range.

James shot a stunning spell at her, which she quickly dispersed with a shield charm.

Running towards Lily, James fired off a variety of different spells, which Lily countered with combinations of spells to provide a more magical aptitude.

It continued in that way, as Lily steadily gained more power, and James got more and more frustrated.

At last, James, tired of fooling around, shouted, "FURNUCULUS!"

Lily, at that very same instance, screamed out a "STUPEFY!"

When both spells collided, a massive 'BOOM!' rocked the class, and James got thrown towards Lily as a crater appeared from the impact of the power thrown into the spells.

Forgetting for a minute that Lily was a girl, James decided to take advantage of the situation, and proceeded to beat the living crap out of Lily.

Which was of course a mistake, as redheads are well known for their tempers.

Lily began to see red.

How dare this imbecile, this buffoon, touch her!

He actually had the guts to punch a girl!

Her power began to build up as she experienced flashbacks of James.

Him taunting her.

Sneering at her for her dreadful Transfiguration grade.

Him laughing at her flying.

Him embarrassing her in front of the other students.

Slowly, the ground around them started to rock at a dreadful pace.

James stopped punching, and looked around, and lastly looked down at Lily.

His eyes widened at the realization of whom he was beating, and who was the cause of this disturbance.

Just as he opened his mouth, Lily's power reached its breaking point.

With a golden beam, James got flung back at a frightening speed into the nearest wall, as showers of dust fell around the class.

When it cleared, students were treated to the sight of the crumpled figure of James Potter underneath the hole in the wall he created when he smashed into it.

A distance away, lay the unconscious body of Lily Evans, who had just displayed the most amazing amount of raw power Hogwarts had seen since the departure of Tom Riddle.

Slowly, the silence was broken as someone started to clap.

Students turned around in there seats to face a now smirking Professor Durnik.

"What were you saying about weak muggleborns Miss Eons?"

At least she had the decency to blush.

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