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Chapter Two
History of Magic always thrilled Lily. Anything that regarded learning was, according to her book, amazing. It intrigued her greatly knowing and studying the past of the world she had come to call her own. It was no surprise when Lily Evans was the first to finish her exam, followed shortly by James Potter.
Curious bloke he was… She thought. He couldn't care less about his studies yet he always had brilliant marks. He and his foolish friends were always up to trouble but somehow they all were marvelous students, except for Peter, he was a bit behind. They were immature and they were silly but after all of her years knowing them Lily had a certain level of respect for them.
They stood up for what they believed in, they protected each other and those who needed to be protected, obviously not minding the consequences. They had landed themselves in many detentions and such, but they never seemed to regret their actions. Lily of course did mind, she was more of a pacifist, wanting to solve issues with words, completely opposite to their beliefs as they wanted to solve everything by force.
Just look at them! She huffed.
Not even an hour ago they had gotten into a fight, a nasty one for that matter. Slytherins were always the cause of most of their problems, after all, there has been a somewhat heated disagreement between Gryffindors and Slytherins for centuries. Nevertheless, that is no excuse for what they did.
Lily, wanting to solve the previous disagreementasked the Slytherins to leave the poor girl they had been pestering alone while they changed classes. After a boy shoved her away and she lost her balance, she was sure she had tripped over something, the greatMarauders came to the rescue, not that she needed their help in the least bit. She could've managed by herself but before she knew it heavy words were being exchanged which led to violence which nearly led to wands. Professor McGonagall stopped the brawl before it could get any worse. In the professor's approach, the crowd that had gathered quickly dispersed leaving only the beat up boys, Lily, and her friends.
The Marauders now had a detention, each, and caused their house to lose 50 points. Lily was furious and hadn't spoken a word to them since. As she was looking at James she saw him turn to her. He met her eyes, winked with his black eye and smiled with his bloody lip. She rolled her eyes in disgust and turned back to the front of the class.
Ridiculous.
…
"Come on Lily flower, you can't stay mad forever." Sirius said as he wrapped his arms around her.
Lily was sitting in the common room reading one of her favorite muggle books. Sirius was now hugging her from behind when she slowly, very slowly, put her book down and looked at the fire in front of her.
"Do you know what I'm thinking?" She whispered, her eyes reflected the flames.
Sirius raised an eyebrow wondering where she was going with this, "I'm listening."
"I'm thinking that if you don't remove your arms I'll petrify you, I'll cut you up slowly and painfully into tiny pieces and feed you to-"
Taking the hint Sirius removed his arms and, to her surprise, kissed Lily's cheek in a brotherly fashion.
"Don't be mad Lily, life's too short to stay mad all the time!" He yelled gleefully over his shoulder as he walked out of the common room with a bark of a laugh.
She hadn't even bothered to talk to them all day, she wasn't really mad anymore but she just wanted to make them understand that what they did was wrong. As a prefect, she had to stand for what she believed in, but she was still grateful for what they did, not by how they managed the situation though.
"Well Lily, I reckon it's time for dinner!" Came Alice's voice from the bottom of the girl's dormitories' stairs.
Standing up she gave a nod, gathered her belongings and walked out of the common room with Alice.
"Lily?" Alice asked as they were walking down the stairs leading to the great hall.
"Hmm?"
"Do you know where the bloody hell Marlene is?" Alice asked genuinely interested.
"As a matter of fact… I don't." Lily said, as she wondered where Marlene could possibly be.
"Well, she'd never miss dinner, she'll come down eventually. You know the girl can't go too long without food." Alice shrugged and Lily nodded.
As they walked with the crowd down the stairs Lily caught sight of James and Sirius. They had the unmistakable look of someone who was undoubtedly planning something. They looked at each other and smirked. This isn't going to end well if she didn't stop it before whatever it was happened.
Oh no… this is bad.
"JA-" Lily started furiously.
"Glisseo" James said and the stairs underneath the mass of students gave way at the same time that blue slimy goo fell over the students causing them all to slide down the remaining floors. They slid down and bumped into each other on the way. They ended up on the main floor and the cold, blue goo made them keep sliding. Somehow, the goo made getting any sort of injury impossible and lightened the fall.
Lily was drenched in the goo, making her robes stick to her body, and she could see that everyone else was drenched as well. She looked over to Alice who was laughing her head off.
"Unbelievable!" Lily yelled as she tried to stand but slipped and fell on her bum ungracefully.
As the screams of fear and confusion subsided hysterics took over the students as they understood what had happened. Most were laughing as they understood that they had been part of an infamous marauder prank, others, mostly Slytherins, were infuriated and disgusted by this. Lily looked over at the boys and her nostrils flared as she saw them rolling in the goo laughing.
"Oh no." Lily heard Alice say ominously and Lily turned to see what she was looking at.
Marlene was walking, obviously not paying attention, straight towards the slide which used to be stairs. She was looking at the ground, her cheeks were pink and she looked exasperated.
"Marlene!"Lily and Alice yelled at the same time but they were too late.
She looked up and her eyes went wide. She tried to take a few steps back but slipped and fell down the slide on her bottom. Lily and Alice ran towards her but didn't manage to get far before they fell on their faces.
"Mar are you alright, mate?" Alice yelled over the noise.
"Splendid, splendid!" Marlene yelled furiously, sarcasm dripping from her words.
The great hall's doors burst open and all the professors came running out with flustered faces. Before they could react they all slipped and fell on their behinds. Everyone stared wide eyed, silence overtook the entire entrance hall as they all watched, until Dumbledore himself started to chuckle.
"There is always room for some fun before dinner." He said with a warm smile breaking the silence.
Whipping his wand slightly everything around them turned to its original form. The goo disappeared and the staircase returned to its previous state.
Looking over to the Marauders he stated, "Let's not have this happen again. Now, dinner is served and I've been told that today's dinner will be significantly delightful."
Everyone got up and looked at Dumbledore's retreating figure as he walked back to the high table.
"Potter, Black!" Professor McGonagall called over the ruckus. James and Sirius walked towards her sheepishly, "Dumbledore may not think a repercussion is necessary but if this ever happens again, the perpetrators will surely get themselves landed in detention for the rest of the year."
"Well somebody ought to tell them then, shouldn't they?" Sirius said with an innocent look on his face.
Professor McGonagall looked at them with narrowed eyes and her eye twitched slightly, before she could go into full rampage, the two mischievous boys all but ran into the great hall.
Awkwardly the students walked over to their tables and started eating dinner. Alice took her usual seat next to Frank, even though they weren't dating they both liked each other's company, and Lily sat next to Remus, while Marlene sat in between James and Sirius, across from Lily and Remus, like everyone normally did.
Lily bent over the table and whispered, "You guys are incorrigible! If Dumbledore wasn't so off his rocker you would've been expelled!"
"Relax Lily dear, it went all according to plan." Sirius said in a low voice as he leaned in as well.
"Besides they'd have no proof it was us." James said shrugging.
"According to plan? According to plan?!" Remus asked incredulous, as he leaned in towards the group and tried to keep his voice down, "Are you mad? That was bloody insane and disproportionate. The planwas probably a fourth of its actual magnitude, there was a reason why I calculated and gave you the specific-"
"Moony, mate, it went outstandingly great! Even if you are pissed about us not using your precise calculations."Peter said as he sat beside James.
"Did you finish?" James asked.
Peter nodded and they all exchanged smirks and knowing glances.
"What are you up to now?" Frank asked.
"No!" Lily said pointing her index finger at the three Marauders sitting in front of her, "No more, I'm bloody serious! You'll get yourselves expelled and Merlin knows what other consequences we'll have to face after you get caught!"
Everyone looked at Lily, wide eyed and Lily suddenly felt self-conscious.
"What?" she asked her cheeks getting darker, "I'm serious."
Sirius smirked, "Lily dear, relax, it's all under control. Right?"
"Absolutely." Peter reassured as he stuffed his mouth with food.
"There you go! And by the way, Lily, I'm Sirius," Sirius said with a wink while everyone rolled their eyes.
"Sure… under control." Remus murmured.
"Oh stop sulking, Moony!" James laughed.
Lily rolled her eyes again and looked at Marlene, she had been extremely quiet, as soon as Lily saw her she knew something was wrong.
"Marlene?" Lily tried to be cautious, knowing she was a ticking time bomb, "Is something bothering you?"
Marlene laughed sarcastically, "No, Lily, everything's bloody wonderful! Why do you ask? Do I look mad? Because I'm not."
Alice raised her eyebrow at Lily and asked slowly, "Marlene… what happened?"
Marlene looked at her food and said grumpily, "Oh it's nothing, nothing really."
"Okay Marlene... if you say so." Alice said while eyeing her skeptically.
"Okay, fine! If you want to know that badly, McGonagall gave me a bloody detention and the worst part is that I had nothing to do with what happened!"
Alice and Lily exchanged a glance and Lily asked, "What… exactly happened?"
Everyone turned to Marlene and her cheeks got ten shades darker, "Well… er, that guy Ronan, the Ravenclaw, he was a nuisance to the entire class. So when McGonagall put us to work and all of you left me alone with him, he started fooling around and gave me… a pig tail."
Marlene's face somehow managed to get darker as everyone listening to her tried to keep straight faces and not burst into laughter.
"So the first thing that I did, of course, was give him a pig's tail too and he said something to me and I… just lost it and turned him completely into a pig."
By the time she had finished she was speaking in a whisper, not very common coming from Marlene.
"So you mean to tell us you turned him into a PIG!" Alice wondered, her eyes wide.
"Well without doubt he deserved it." Sirius said as he wrapped an arm around Marlene, "We're proud of you!"
All of their party laughed and James patted Marlene fondly, a big smile on his face, "I must say, that's rather impressive. You should've tried not to get caught though."
"Or you should've given her puppy eyes, right Prongs?" Remus smirked and winked at James.
"That does get us out of many predicaments." James admitted, nodding.
"And it doesn't only work on the female population, Padfoot knows all about that." Peter said smugly and the boys sniggered.
"Of come off it! That only happened once, and if it weren't for me we'd probably be expelled." Sirius said defensively but then his serious face broke into a smirk.
Marlene started to soften up as she understood it wasn't as serious as she thought it was, the Marauders were laughing and reminiscing on some of their adventures and close calls. It turned out she'd had to do detention with the boys and the subject was soon left in the past. Lily smiled as she saw the once exasperated Marlene laugh when James made a perfect imitation of Peter's face when he got caught sometime in the past. Suddenly, she felt a tap on her shoulder, making her turn around and she found herself sitting next to the towering figure of a boy in Hufflepuff robes.
"Lily… may I speak with you… for a second," said the boy by the name of… of…
Oh no, what was his name? Lily thought as she smiled at him and stood up.
" 'ello Clark." Frank said nodding at Clark Rickett, a Hufflepuff sixth year. The rest on the table continued with their banter, except for one pair of hazel eyes which followed Lily as she stood.
Of course! Bad Lily! You can't just forget people's names!
"So, Clark, what's the matter?" Lily said with a warm smile that she reserved to when she was dealing with her peers as a prefect.
The tall, muscular beater looked like he was struggling to get a word out and cleared his throat before speaking, "Er… well, Professor Binns wanted me to get aid in History of Magic… because I'm almost failing and nobody would want a Troll in that class, as a matter of fact in any class at all. I did do awful on today's exam. And everyone knows that you get great scores and I do need the help otherwise I wouldn't be allowed to do many things. I wouldn't be able to play quidditch either, which would affect the team greatly because we don't have any other beater who could replace me and we have big games coming up and-"
"Yes." Lily stated holding a hand up to stop him.
"What?" He asked confused.
"I'll help you… that's what you need, correct?"
"Uh ye-yes, yes! Thank you, Lily." He smiled, "When?"
"I'll meet you in the library tomorrow at six." Lily said and he nodded.
"Bye Lily, thank you!"
Lily waved him off, "No problem."
As soon as Lily sat back down Alice wiggled her eyebrows and Lily rolled her eyes. She had only been a good schoolmate and prefect, that's what she liked to do, help others. But others weren't as happy as Alice because as soon as Lily sat, James stood.
"We should get going." He said to his fellow Marauders and they stood with him and left the great hall.
"Oooh Lily! You got James jealous again." Alice said shaking her head mockingly.
"I don't reckon he still fancies me." Lily shrugged.
"Of course he does! Are you mad?" Marlene laughed, "He's fancied you since he first laid eyes on you. And I reckon he's still mad for you Lils."
"Yes," Frank agreed. "He's laid off because he's maturing."
"James? Maturing?" Alice asked raising an eyebrow.
"Well if you'd see him when we hang out or by the way he acts in public, you'd notice. He's changing and I believe it's mainly because of what's happening around his parents, around the whole wizarding world as a matter of fact." Frank said.
"Oh yes, they're Aurors and with all of this uprising he's bound to be on edge." Alice said sighing.
"Or maybe he understood you'd never go out with him and he's permanently sulking." Marlene said trying to lighten the dampened mood.
"Oh, sod off." Lily shook her head.
…
"We're finally out! Christmas bloody holiday is finally here!" Alice yelled as the three girls made their way to Gryffindor tower.
Marlene laughed as she put her hands on her stomach, "Oh no, and now we'll go get fat with our mothers' cooking, I'll have to get a new uniform because everything I currently have will not fit by the time I get back."
"That's the beauty of Christmas! The food!" Lily laughed.
The trio, stopped joking when they saw a Gryffindor second year running towards them with a face contorted in horror they quickened their pace to meet her halfway.
"Lily! Lily, come quick!" She said grabbing Lily by the hand and running to the portrait hole.
"What's going on?" Alice asked as she ran behind them.
"Is someone hurt?" Lily asked.
"No, no. It's just…" but she couldn't continue because they had reached the open portrait hole.
Girly screams seeped out of the hole and then, oddly, Lily heard male laughter.
As she passed through the hole she then asserted the situation. Someone had charmed all the girls' undergarments and now they were floating and flying through the entirety of the common room, every girl was blushing hard trying their best to reach the ones they owned and all the male population had at least one undergarment in their hands. And there was a big sign over the fireplace with the words 'Merry Christmas Lads!' on it.
"No. Bloody. Way." Alice said slowly her jaw dropping.
But how is this even possible! Lily wondered, someone had to get into the girls' dorms to actually charm them and there is no possible way that-
Peter's conversation with the boys a few days back at dinner suddenly made sense.
Lily looked over to a group of boys who were laughing and enjoying themselves a tad too much. Her green eyes met with a pair of hazel ones, James then proceeded to smirk and show her something that he was holding, a wine red bra that Lily knew all too well.
"I'll miss you guys." Lily said in a low, menacing tone.
"What are you saying Lily?" Marlene asked completely confused.
"After I kill him I won't be seeing you guys often because I'll be in Azkaban," Lily took a step forward and James' smirk widened.
"Don't do anything rash, dear." Alice said knowing what she was about to do.
"Tell my parents I loved them." Was the last thing Lily said before she took her wand out and ran after the four boys who made her life impossible.
Matured? James Potter maturing my arse!
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