Avoiding Potter Or Not Chapter 8: The Normal Day, The Dancing, The Lessons, a harry potter fanfic

-aVOIDING POTTER OR NOt-

Author- -POTTER.loves.EVANS- so true!

Disclaimer- Jk Rowling… I'm so glad you created Harry Potter, because if you didn't I would be forced to live in reality…

Dedications- For Remus and Tonks… For Snape and Moody… For Fred and Dobby… For Wormtail (only because he stopped choking Harry and would have let him go had his weirdo hand not choked him)… For Ted Tonks… For Dumbledore… For James and Lily (without them there would be NO Harry… imagine that, no Harry… scary thoughts) For Sirius (who was Harry's godfather and who gave me a reason to cry in the fifth movie… honestly who wouldn't cry?) and for any other Harry Potter characters that died and I forgot to put them down (sorry).

Notes- THANK YOU! I love all of my reviewers! They're mine, nobody touch em! Lol. But nah, thanks guys you's rock!

Also, last chapter I wrote that Lily took James' glasses and I forgot all about it and made poor James walk around with no glasses… poor thing! He could have tripped and fell into the lake! So let's just pretend Lily gave them back to him when he sat next to her at breakfast okay? Yeah cool.

Also, I am aware of the spelling/grammar mistakes from last chapter. I need a beta, and the first one to say they want to be my beta wins the prize of… (Drum roll) dun dun dun dun! Being my beta! That's the prize people! Now get reviewing! That's an excuse to review okay? Okay!

And now, onto chapter 8!

Chapter 8

"Did you guys hear about James and Carly?"

Gossip. Everywhere I go, I hear gossip. But since it has something to do with James I can't help myself and I listen in.

"What happened?" I asked the curly brown haired Ravenclaw.

"Oh, well they had a massive fight!" she said looking important.

"Did they break up?" Becky asked hopefully and I couldn't help but smile.

The girl shook her head. "No, but Jess here was just about to tell me what is was about"

"Why?" Emm asked. Emm isn't really one for gossip, but since it concerns her friend (James) she obviously wants to hear about it.

"Well, Carly told James that she's pregnant with Jayden Bradfield's baby"

Me, Becky and Emm all laughed.

"You're kidding right?" I asked smiling.

They shook their heads.

"Oh" was all I could get out. My smile faded.

"Lily it's just stupid gossip, Carly's not pregnant! And she's not cheating on James either" Emm said and the girls glared reproachfully at her.

I nodded. "Come on, we have to get to Transfiguration"

We walked off down the corridor and into the classroom where everyone but was seated.

The only seats remaining were next to Frank Longbottom, Remus and Alice Mitchell.

I took the seat beside Alice, Emm beside Frank and Becky next to Remus, which is really weird because Emm nearly always sits with Remus.

Hmm, I wonder why she isn't sitting with him…

"Now attention class! Attention! Mr. Black if you don't wake up now you will receive detention with me at 8 o'clock tonight!" Professor McGonagall barked.

Sirius sat up straighter and said; "Jeez, no need to overreact Minnie"

"Oooooooooh!" Half the class said, including Becky. I glanced at James, who was beside Sirius. He caught my eye and I smiled, but he didn't; in fact he looked away. I frowned; why is James acting weird? He always smiles at me…

"That's it Mr. Black! Tonight 8 o'clock my office!" McGonagall said furiously.

"Ok then it's a date!" The class repeated the "Oooooooooh's" and some even wolf-whistled.

"I will not let you make a mockery in my classroom Mr. Black"

"Okay then Minnie! Jeez, someone's on their rags!"

Half the class laughed and wolf-whistled, even a few more "Oooooooooh's" could be heard.

"Get to Dumbledore's office NOW!" McGonagall shouted, her cheeks going red.

Sirius smiled and left, singing; "Raggy raggy raggy! Raggy raggy raggy!" and everyone laughed until they realized McGonagall was glaring at them.

McGonagall breathed heavily. "Right, now today we will be…"

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"Sirius you idiot! You got detention for a week!" Becky exclaimed later on when we were walking to lunch. We just had Charms and Sirius told us what happened.

Remus and Emm were walking up ahead; talking about the essay we got given.

I sped up to walk along with James. "What's up?" I asked.

"Nothing" he said quickly.

"Yeah right, I know you James. Whenever something's bothering you, you go all quiet. It's quite freaky actually"

James didn't smile.

"I'm fine Lily" we walked into the Entrance Hall.

"Uhuh sure"

"Look Lily just drop it" James snapped and I actually froze. He stopped as the other's walked over to the table.

"Lils, I'm sorry I didn't mean to snap okay?" he said his voice filled with sadness.

I gave him a small smile. "Okay. But if you need to talk James, you know you can come to me"

"Yeah I know but that's why you're my mate, coz you care" he said swinging an arm around my shoulders and I grinned and shrugged it off as Carly looked about ready to murder.

We walked over to the table and sat down with our friends, but James quickly went back to depressing mode. I sighed and got some spaghetti bolognaise and began to eat it, watching Emm and Remus carefully.

Remus and Emm were both about to pick up the same food when they stopped and glanced at each other, blushing. "You have it" they said at the same time. "No, no its okay I insist" they said again unison. Becky and Sirius laughed but James grabbed the food and cut it in half, tossed one on Becky's plate and one on Remus'.

"There, happy?" James asked and went back to eating. Everyone was watching him closely.

"James are you okay?" Becky asked him, frowning.

"Fan-bloody-tastic" he muttered.

"JAMES!" Carly screamed and ran up to him, and plonked herself in between us again. I raised my eyebrows.

"Hi Carly" James said in a sad depressing tone.

"What's wrong sweetie?" she asked.

"Nothing" James replied trying to eat his Shepherd's pie. "Carly can you please give me back my fork"

"What have you's done to him?" she demanded, looking at all of us.

"They haven't done anything" James said, he looked like he was getting annoyed. "Can I have my fork?"

"No! Jamesie don't be silly! This isn't very healthy and you'll get a little boota-belly" She said holding his fork away from him at distance. Seriously, I'm in danger of having my eyes poked out.

"Pass my fork, and watch out you're nearly poking Lily's eye out" He said again and everyone turned to me, where sure enough I was edging away from the fork.

"Oh… sorry" I knew she really wasn't sorry, Carly never is.

She moved it away but didn't give it back to him.

"Can you give me my fork?" James asked again.

"Well are you going to eat something healthier?" she asked him.

"No" he replied shortly.

"Well no I won't give it to you"

God dammit Carly! Give me the god damm fork!" James said angrily. Okay before I lied, James isn't annoyed, he's pissed off!

Carly stared at James, her eyes wide.

"Gosh James you have such a bad temper today" she said and I rolled my eyes. James looks about ready to leave. I grabbed the fork from Carly's hand and passed it to James who smiled. "Thank you Lily" he said and Carly stared at him. "You're not going to eat that" she said bossily.

"Watch me" he replied and we laughed and he ate the rest of his Shepherd's pie.

"Hmmpf!" Carly said and got up and walked back to her friends swaying her arse around and getting stares from hopeful boys.

"Mate are you sure you're okay?" Remus asked James, looking worried.

"I'm fine guys, really" James said sighing.

"Yeah right! You've never done that to Carly before!" Becky said, she was in a mixture of curiosity and happiness.

"So? She can't just boss me around" James said and looked down at her where she could be seen telling her friends what had happened. Rachel looked at us venomously.

"Watch out James, they look about ready to kill" Sirius warned and I chuckled.

James just shook his head.

"James does this mean you don't want to be with Carly anymore?" I asked him and there was silence. Sirius, Becky, Emm and Remus all looked at me with their eyebrows raised.

What did my voice sound hopeful? Oh god I hope not!

James frowned and shook his head. "I dunno. I still like her a lot, she can be nice when she wants to be she's just bossy" he said and I nodded.

Sirius looked at me, and I smiled and picked up my drink and started drinking it when I choked.

James clapped me on the back and Becky looked at me and asked; "What, what is it Lily?" she asked and I pointed over her shoulder.

Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape we're sitting at the Slytherin table wearing old man beards. They were long and they're hair resembled Dumbledore's just not as long as his.

We all started laughing and everyone turned to look at us and saw what we were looking at. And that's what started them laughing.

After awhile everyone died down and the bell went, causing everyone to get up and leave. I turned to James and asked; "What have you got?"

He looked at Remus who said; "Muggle Studies"

James nodded and I grinned. In Muggle Studies was Remus, me and James and Sirius and Becky were in Arithmancy. I hate Arithmancy.

We walked along the corridor and I realized that Carly wouldn't be in this class and James seemed to cheer up too.

When we got there we piled into seats, me in between Remus and James.

The teacher, Professor Tatum was sitting at her desk and writing something.

There weren't many people as there were last year. Out of the Gryffindors there were me, Remus, James, Alice and Frank. Then there were four Hufflepuffs and three Ravenclaws and that's it. Not many people.

"Right, Good afternoon class! Today we're going to be working in groups of lets say two or three. Then you're going to figure out how to change television channels, cook on a stove and make a cup of coffee without magic. The materials are up the back. Now off you go" Everyone stood up and she smiled.

James grabbed my arm and said; "You're working with us" he said and dragged both me and Remus up to the cupboard where they kept all of the stuff.

"It's not because I'm muggleborn is it Mr. Potter?" I asked grinning.

"Oh no, of course not Miss. Evans" James replied smirking.

I shook my head and grabbed the cups and the kettle, while James decided to be macho man and carry the T.V. Remus grabbed the pots and pans.

We went over to the little thing we had, which was like a small kitchen and had a sink, two cupboards and a bench. James sat the T.V on the bench and I put the cups, pots and pans in the sink and Remus plugged in the kettle.

"Okay, James you know how to turn on a T.V I showed you in the holidays"

"Yeah. I remember" he grabbed the remote and turned it at the T.V. He pressed a button but it didn't work.

Remus rolled his eyes. "James you didn't plug it in" he said and plugged it in himself.

"Oh" was James replied and I stifled a laugh.

James pressed a button, but I still didn't turn on.

"It's not working" he stated and I turned around and looked at it. I looked at the remote and said, "Are you even pressing the right button?"

"Course I am!" he replied. "Which one are you pressing?" I asked curiously.

"That one!" James said pointing at the button.

"James you git, you're pressing the wrong one! This is the turn on button" I said hitting him on the head with the remote.

"Ow" he said and I turned back around. "I'm sorry! Did I hurt you?" I asked rubbing his head. He grinned. "No course you didn't" I rolled my eyes. "Men, always trying to be macho's"

"Hey!" James exclaimed.

"Which button was he pressing?" Remus asked smiling.

"The number 5" I said and Remus laughed and I joined in but the look on James' face made us stop quickly and get on with our jobs.

James finally turned the T.V on and started flicking through channels. "Hey turn it back!" I said turning around.

He frowned. "I don't know which channel it was"

I took the remote and found the right channel; it was one of my favourite songs on a music video.

James grabbed my hand I and laughed. "James you can't dance!"

"Wanna bet?" he asked and I grinned as we started waltzing, both of us laughing, making complete idiots out of ourselves. Remus turned the music up a bit and everyone started to watch us waltz around our little kitchen.

It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart
Without saying a word, you can light up the dark
Try as I may I could never explain
What I hear when you don't say a thing

The smile on your face let's me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best when you say nothing at all

All day long I can hear people talking out loud
But when you hold me near, you drown out the crowd
Try as they may they can never define
What's being said between your heart and mine

James twirled me around and I laughed and then the music stopped, and so did we. Next thing we know was that everyone in the classroom was applauding us and we both blushed.

"Alright everybody! Back to you're kitchens!" and me and James turned around and he started flicking through channels again while Remus put chocolate in the pan.

"What are you making Remus?" I asked grinning.

James who was sitting on the bench looked over at Remus curiously.

"A new invention, called warm chocolate"

"I should have known" me and James said at the same time.

We glanced at each other and quickly looked away grinning.

I walked over and pushed James off the bench. "Come on you, you can help me make the coffee"

"But you don't need any help" he replied and I laughed. "Oh James, you silly billy. You need to make it too" I sad and he groaned and stood up straighter and I pushed him over towards the kettle.

We made the coffee and we all handed it to the teacher and she drank some and nodded, saying it was tasty.

"We should have put poison in it and offered some to Snape" James said and I hit him over the back of his head.

"Hey! Lily" he whined and I shook my head. "Baby" I muttered and Remus passed us the pan. "Here eat some chocolate" he looked nervous and me and James looked at each other and ate some.

James started choking. "What the hell did you put in this?" James asked swallowing.

"Pepper, salt, sugar, water etc" Remus said looking sad.

"It's lovely Remus" I lied taking some more and passing the pan to James and giving him a meaningful look.

"I'm gonna have some more" he said and took some more and Remus beamed as he watched us eat it.

"I'm glad you like it! I'm gonna go give some to Professor Tatum and you's can clean up" he said taking the pan and hurrying away.

Me and James immediately turned to the bin and began spitting.

When we straightened up we saw Remus heading over smiling. "She passed us with an O" he told us happily and began to scrape the chocolate into a container.

I nodded, "You could write to Honeydukes and tell them about it and-"

"You'll become rich and famous!" James cut in looking excited.

"Do you guys really think it's that good?" he asked.

Before James could say anything, I said; "Definitely" and me and James hurriedly took the T.V and the cups, kettle, pan and pot back to the cupboard.

"You don't really like it do you Lily?" he asked.

"Course not! You saw me spitting it out! But you saw the look on his face! I didn't want to hurt his feelings"

"Honeydukes would be mad to have that flavour in their shop!" James said and I shook my head.

We packed up and Professor Tatum let us go early and we hurried down the corridor to Defense Against the Dark Arts. A.K.A. DADA

We waited by the door and the bell went, and third years hurried out just as James said; "You should teach this when you leave Remus. You're the best at it… and Snape I guess"

"Can you imagine me teaching with… with-"

"You're furry little problem? Oh yeah definitely"

"Shut up Prongs" Remus said and James shrugged. "Hey just trying to be nice and truthful"

I shook my head. "Honestly you guys are weirdoes"

"Thanks Love" James said winking.

"Mooooony! When can we go in?" James whined.

"Proooooooongs! When the teacher is ready" Remus replied and I chuckled.

Just then other students came down the corridor and amongst them we saw Sirius, Emm and Becky hurrying over to us. "How was Muggle Studies?" Emm asked smiling.

"Eventual if you ask me" James said and I smirked.

"JAMES!" Yelled a voice down the corridor. "JAMESIE!"

"Oh god, quick let me in, let me in, let me in" James said pounding on the door and when it opened he flew in, followed by Sirius and they sat up the back side by side. I took a seat next to Becky and Emm sat beside Remus. It seems they've patched things up… or whatever.

"If Carly says anything about a dungbomb blowing up underneath her, don't blame me" Sirius said quickly and James looked questioningly at him.

"James! You're friend and you're… cousin" (She gave Becky a dirty look)"Threw a dungbomb under my chair!"

She seemed close to tears and James raised his eyebrows. "Oh, is that why I smell dungbombs?" Carly ran away up the front crying.

"What!" James said when Emm turned and looked at him. "What did I do?"

"Chicks are so emotional mate" Sirius said nodding and Becky pinched him. "OW!"

"You could have been nice to her" Emm stated.

"Oh, so that wasn't nice? How? It's not like I insulted her" James said incredulously.

"No but the way you said it sounded as if you were saying she smelled" I explained and his mouth formed a perfect 'o'.

"Sorry!" James called up the front. Carly turned and looked at him and she smiled and waved.

"Gee, she gets over things quick" Sirius said and I snorted.

"Only because it's James. If it was me or Becky or Emm she'd be planning revenge" I said and James grinned.

"Yeah remember when Becky told her to stop spraying her perfume around the room or we'd all die of a disgusting girly smell?" Emm asked and I laughed. James and Sirius turned to Becky with their eyebrows raised and she smirked and said; "Well it was girl's deodorant!"

"We all know you prefer men's deodorant Becks" I said and she smiled.

"Ewww what a man slash woman" Sirius said edging away from her. Becky punched his arm.

"Oi! You don't punch like a girl remember? You punch like a bloody man!" he shouted and the teacher, Professor Holland smiled and said; "settle down class". Everyone became quiet and Sirius was rubbing his arm and mumbling about how girls shouldn't punch guys and how guys weren't allowed to punch girls and stuff like that. Becky just smirked.

We sat there and listened to the teacher tell us about Werewolves and I noticed that Remus paled a bit when she said this.

Oh you might think that I've forgotten about Peter yeah? Well actually I haven't. He isn't in this class because he didn't get the right OWL… the same with Transfiguration and Charms. But he's in Divination, Herbology and Ancient Runes and that's it.

"Sirius! We have you're favourite class next!" I whispered and he looked at me and groaned.

"Potions" Me and James said at the same time.

"No fair!" Sirius whispered and James sniggered. "Do you rekon he'll hold his stupid Slug Club parties this year or will he forget about them?" James asked us.

"He'll hold em" Me and Sirius said in unison.

"Don't you dare schedule a Quidditch practice when his parties are on" I said grumpily.

"Don't listen to her Prongs!" Sirius whispered.

"If you leave me alone I swear I will kill the both of you and skin you and hang you up in Filch's office" I said.

"Ooooh, I like em feisty" James said and I threw my quill at him.

"Ouch! Lily! Don't worry! I won't" he said but winked at Sirius.

"Yeah he's right" Sirius said winking as well.

I glared at them. "If you do, I'll tell him about all the free afternoons and he'll hold them then. I'll make sure he does" I whispered angrily.

Sirius gasped.

"You wouldn't!" James said looking a bit scared.

"I would!" I replied and Sirius frowned. "Oh come on Lils! We're just skiving off his party!

"You shouldn't skiv off anything" I replied.

James frowned and said "Why don't we just hold the Prefects meeting on the night and then you and me will get out of it"

I grinned, "That's a brilliant idea!"

"Says the girl who tells us not to skiv off anything" Sirius said. I rolled my eyes.

"Okay so the Prefect meeting yeah?" James asked.

"Oi! What about me?" Sirius asked.

"What about you?" I asked Sirius and he glared at me and Becky sniggered.

James sighed. "Why don't we go and avoid Slughorn?"

"Hark! He'll follow us until he catches us!" Sirius shouted and everyone looked at him.

"What are you nosy sods all looking at?" Becky and Sirius asked at the same time and they all went back to their work.

"True, true" I said continuing our conversation as though we hadn't been interrupted.

"Well, I think we should go… and then like excuse ourselves to the bathroom, and run away" James added and I shook my head.

"You don't get it! If we don't come back he'll know James! He loves us too much" I said and Sirius scoffed. "You mean he loves me too much" he said and I rolled my eyes.

"You're full of it Sirius" James said.

"Well I just don't fancy standing around and listening to him telling me I should've been in Slytherin with all those idiots" Sirius whispered and glared at the Slytherins.

"Oh Sirius! You're not in the stupid house! You're in Gryffindor and you belong there!" Becky said and we all stared at her.

She blushed and looked away, but nothing could wipe the wide grin off Sirius' face.

"Say, Becks wanna come join me in the broom closet?" he asked and she punched him.

"No I do not!" she replied and turned away.

"She likes me" Sirius said to me and James and we nodded. "Oh yeah Sirius, definitely" James said and looked at me and winked. I just shook my head and we turned back to the front.

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This has been an eventual day today I thought to myself before I drifted off to sleep that night.

A/N: okay okay short I know but I realized if I have them too long it'll take me forever to get them up and we don't want that do we? In fact you're bloody lucky I feel bad about making you wait a while for last chapter! It is now, 8:24 am on a Saturday and I decided to write a chapter when I could be sleeping… you know what I mean? And plus, I know this story is a bit slow but next chapter we will know why James is/was upset and why he and Carly had a fight. Yep, and it's not very good either.

Well, I better go! Love you all!

I'll try to get next chapter up soon okay?

Bye! –POTTER.loves.EVANS-

P.S please be nice and generous and give me a review! I mean I did use my sleep time to write this chapter just for you! Please?