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Chapter 9 – November days... and a new plan!
As November loomed overhead, the castle grew colder and colder. The student started to wear winter cloaks all the time, and gloves to stop their finger stiffening with the cold. Ink began to freeze over during potions lessons, and even Professor Delorey (the batty divination teacher) was having trouble keeping her tower room warm, when it was normally the most stiflingly hot room in the castle.
Lily and James were in the astronomy tower on the morning of the 24th November. Lily had been looking for her telescope, which she had left there by accident, but both she and James had been seized by the ambience, and were now happily kissing, although gloved fingers could quite easily get stuck in long red hair.
Wondering where Lily and James were, and still desperately trying to think of a way to get them together, Sirius had a brain wave. Pulling Mya, Remus and Freya into a nearby empty classroom, he proceeded to tell them.
"I have had the most BRILLIANT idea!" he said, grinning like a maniac.
Remus and Freya looked at each other nervously
"What is it?" Remus said
Mya's eyes were glittering, as they always did when a plan was thought of,
"Yeah, what is it?"
Sirius drew himself up to his full height and said
"Polyjuice potion"
The other three looked at each other, baffled.
"What about it?" Freya asked quietly, Sirius, as usual, did a double take, and was about to start his whole 'OH MY GOD! FREYA SPOKE!' campaign, but he caught the evils that Remus was sending him and stopped.
"I will use Polyjuice potion to turn into James. Y'know how James always moans in our dorm about how she won't go out with him?"
"By 'she' I assume you mean Lily" Remus said skeptically
"Yeah, but I will turn into James, and go and ask Lily out FOR him. I bet he hasn't even tried in ages, and it's flipping obvious that she likes him!!"
Remus looked thoughtful
"Y'know Sirius, that might just work!"
Mya wooped, unable to control herself any longer, and danced around the room.
Sirius smirked at his own sheer brilliance.
The polyjuice potion was almost ready. It was the 23rd December. Sirius, Mya and the others were so excited about the plan, that they kept just bursting out laughing at random moments.
"This is gonna be brillliant" Mya sniggered as she and Sirius gave the Polyjuice potion a final stir and left it to simmer for one more night.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the castle, frantic preparations for Christmas were being made.
All the main decorations had been done, but Freya and Lily were both having last minute panics.
Lily had not had a single chance to buy anything special for James. Every time she had been in Hogsmeade she had had her friends with her, and she had not been able to buy anything for him. Now it was a day before Christmas, and she still had nothing.
Freya was panicking for a different reason, this being that she had just been informed by Madame Pomfrey that she was diabetic, and she could not find her insulin anywhere.When she finally told Lily what she was looking for, Lily found it in a matter of minutes.
"Honestly Frey, how do you live in such a mess!?"
Freya grinned weakly.
"Sorry Lily, I was just scared when I couldn't find it, I didn't want to start passing out again."
Freya had started over the past month, to pass out during lessons and meal times. Eventually it had been figured out what her problem was.
Once she got used to it she had not been worried anymore, but she occasionally got scared about it.
Lily then went back to panicking about what she could possibly get James...
Eventually, she slipped up to the boys' dormitory, put on James' invisibility cloak which she found on the floor. Now, all she had to do was get to the one eyed witch before Honeydukes shut...
Lily slipped out of the trapdoor, and hurried up into the shop. Ducking low, she scurried around the counter, and out into the frosty street.
She wandered down the road, looking at the shops, and wondering what he could possibly want.
He could have sweets anytime. He had more Zonko's stuff than anyone could ever want... but sentimental things... she didn't think he had many of those.
She reached Wanda's Watch Emporium, and looked at all the ones in the window. Them she saw something that caught her eye.
She entered the shop.
"Excuse me, can I buy that watch and have it engraved please?"
Wanda, the witch who owned the shop, smiled at her and said
"Yes of course love, that'll be 10 galleons."
Lily was caught by surprise, that wasn't very expensive!
Handing over the money, she explained what she wanted it to say...
The next morning, Christmas Eve, Lily woke up late.
She yawned and stretched. She got dressed quickly, pulling on loose hipster jeans, and a fitted green jumper, she noticed with alarm that it was rather more fitted than she had anticipated, she seemed to have grown over the last year... Eventually she decided to ask Mya if it was OK, pulled a short dark green scarf around her neck, and put on her trainers. She tied her hair in loose, low bunches that were rested on her shoulders. She sorted her makeup and went downstairs.
Sirius woke up early and had breakfast, he then waited for the others to go to breakfast, noting with glee that Lily had slept in and wasn't with them. He would do it while they had breakfast... He added a bit of James' hair to the potion and gulped it down. He tried to keep clam while his body twisted and lurched, he suddenly felt very sick... then he was fine... except for one thing. He couldn't see.
"Damnit!" Sirius swore in James' voice, surprising himself.
He felt his way to the common room and up the stairs, trying to figure out what each blurred object was. He found James' chest of drawers and after several desperate minutes of searching, found James' spare glasses. Putting them on he found her could see perfectly. He then found James' deodorant and put it on, so that he even smelt like his best friend.
He then sauntered back down to the common room, marvelling at how weird it was to be James.
When Lily reached the common room she was delighted to find that 'James' was waiting for her. Alone.
She grinned
"Morning James!"
"Morning Lily" Sirius said standing up.
Lily walked over to him. Inside Sirius' head alarm bells were going off, she was very close...
Without waiting for him to begin, Lily put her arms around Sirius' neck and pressed her lips to his.
Sirius suddenly realised something, Lily and James had been going out all this time!
Then he realised something else. He was about to blow his cover, he had to pretend that he had known this all along and that he was Lily's boyfriend.
Oh crap.
Hesitating for a minute and trying to convince his mind that it was Mya, he kissed Lily back. She was a good kisser he had to admit, in fact, when he was holding her like this, he could begin to see why James loved her. But Mya was all that filled Sirius' head. Lily tasted of mint and chocolate... Mya tasted like apples and sugar... Sirius' mind went off on a tangent...
A couple of minutes later, Lily pulled back and said,
"Let's go down to the Hall"
Sirius' mind panicked. In his plans he had never got to this! He blurted out the first thing he thought of.
"I tell you what, I'll race you, I'll go by the passages, you go by the stairs, see who gets there first!"
Lily raised an eyebrow,
"I think Sirius is rubbing off on you... but OK then... GO!"
Lily raced off out of the portrait hole just as Sirius felt his hair lengthen and his body grow slightly taller. His eyes also suddenly stung as he no longer needed the glasses. Throwing them aside he legged it down a secret passage that led straight to the Hall. He skidded in and sat down next to Mya. He started to stuff his face, trying to rid himself of the memory of kissing Lily. Then he turned and kissed Mya (once he had swallowed of course) revelling in her familiar taste and feel. Then he heard Lily sit down.
"Hello Lilykins" he greeted
Lily smiled sarcastically
"Morning Sirius"
Sirius smirked at her and carried on eating as Lily said
"You won then"
Sirius almost choked, realising that James would deny that he had been in the common room at all.
"What does everyone want for Christmas?!" he asked loudly.
And, thankfullly, Lily's attention was diverted.
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