I do not own Harry Potter. Thanks to Anti-Banana19 for all her kind reviews. I made up the incantations to some spells. I looked them up on Google Translate, they're meant to be Latin but they're probably not right. I'm really unsure about this chapter, so let me know what you think.
On Thursday morning, Lily rose at an appropriate time. She had double Defence Against the Dark Arts first thing, and wanted to see what the teacher was like.
Lily had seen her at the Staff Table and the main reason she was so interested on seeing how she got on, was that it looked like one good stunning spell would finish her off.
Professor Bespoke was a small, wrinkly witch of around sixty. She walked crouched over, always carried a large handbag and reminded you of a lady you would give your bus seat to.
She also it seemed, did not care what people thought of her.
Only yesterday, she had entered the Great Hall for breakfast wearing bright lime green robes with yellow stars on the hem.
While Lily would not have worn the robes herself, she admired the fact that she had the confidence to wear them.
The first thing Alice said when Lily sat down for breakfast was "That's horrible!". Lily was not surprised because Alice was reading the Daily Prophet. Lily had stopped getting the Prophet last year because she couldn't stand reading about more and more attacks.
It was just too upsetting and now she wondered what Alice had read.
"What?" Lily asked. "A witch was being surrounded by Death Eaters, when a Muggle neighbour came to help. The Muggles have no idea why two perfectly healthy people just dropped dead on the street," Alice answered.
"They left them on the street?" Lily asked gob smacked. Alice just nodded grimly.
Neither of them were particularly cheerful when they reached the classroom.
When Professor Bespoke opened the door to let us in, she said we could choose our seats. Lily's first impression was that she was way too trusting.
"Now for the first half of our class we will read the introduction of our book, 'Ways to Curse Your Enemy and not Leave them Scarred for Life' , then I will go over some hexes, and maybe teach you a few that you don't know," she said.
The chapter was pretty basic, and while no one in the room talked, it was obvious that everyone was dying to hear these new hexes.
The chapter and the lesson began to drag on. Everyone was becoming visibly bored. "So," Black said to his friends turning around "What prank do you think we could play on this old bat?" "Shhh!" Lily hushed.
" Come on Evans, live a little. At her age she probably can't even hear m-"
"Alas Luto!" Bespoke exclaimed standing up from her desk with her wand raised. Suddenly, great big flying bogeys began to attack Black. The whole class was howling with laughter.
As he was trying to fight them off, Bespoke said "I thought you were Gryffindors! I didn't even have to wait that long for my first years to start talking! That, class, was the Bat-Bogey Hex," she then proceeded to remove the curse.
"Now we will begin. Recedet Coma is the Hair-Loss curse. You swish your wand as if to cut. Alio Colocium is to change the colour of something, it can be hair or skin. Crurabilo is the well known Jelly-Legs jinx. Here are some you might not know," she began, a mischievous glint in her eyes as she began describing hexes.
"Now, Annaugere, will make someone's arms grow in length.
Genuatro will move your knees to the other side of your target's legs," she finished.
As the lesson went on, the class were steadily becoming more and more impressed with her.
When the bell rang for the second time, the class was disappointed to be leaving. Surprisingly, even the Marauders thought that she was tough.
As she walked into the Great Hall for dinner, a hand from the Gryffindor table waved at her. With her eyes trailing down the arm to see who it was, James Potter shouted "Lily!" as soon as her eyes reached his face. She went to sit with the Marauders minus Pettigrew, who wasn't there. Alice was already beside them.
"That was an interesting class, wasn't it?" Potter said the second she sat down. "I think that's a bit of an understatement there," Lily answered.
"Hey Frank!" Potter suddenly called. Lily looked up from her food to see Potter talking to Frank.
Even though he had asked Alice out, they were still shy around each other.
"Where do you think you're going?" Potter asked." You're sitting with us aren't you?" "Sure" Frank said, with a grin, sitting down beside Alice. James winked at her.
She had known she wasn't the only one to see how perfect Alice and Frank would be together, but admittedly she didn't think Potter would notice. Lily smiled her thanks at him.
He beamed back, which only caused her to raise her eyebrows.
Soon enough, the six Gryffindors were having a fully fledged crazy face war.
Lily didn't even care about all the people staring at her, she was having too much fun.
Just then, Pettigrew sat down beside them. "I'm not sure I want to know what you guys are doing, but all I know is that I'm in deep trouble," he said.
Immediately Potter, Black and Remus straightened in their seats to see if there was anything they could do to help their friend. "What's wrong Wormtail?" Remus asked.
"I forgot I had a Transfiguration essay, and had to do it at the last minute so I got a T," he began. Lily was shocked. She had never gotten lower than an A in her life.
"You got a T Wormtail?" Black asked. "Yes, anyway, now McGonagall is after me," he finished desperately. Just as he said that, McGonagall herself began to walk towards them.
"Okay, Moony, Padfoot, I think it's time to put 'Operation: Lemon Meringue' into practice." Potter said. Their eyes gleamed. "Wormy, you make your get-away once McGonagall is sufficiently distracted," Remus said.
"Thanks guys," Pettigrew said. And without further ado, Potter, Black and Remus jumped on the top of the Gryffindor table and were hurling food at everyone like there was no tomorrow.
Soon there was an all out food fight with food soaring from one side of the Hall to another.
"Stop, please, stop!" Professor Flitwick squeaked. Then, it seemed as if the whole Hall held it's breath as a lemon meringue hit him square in the face.
He slowly turned around to face Black, who had thrown it. The next thing everybody saw was astonishing.
Flitwick grabbed some meatballs from the Ravenclaw table and chucked them back at him.
Form the way people were throwing the food it was clear that it was many people's dearest ambition to start a food fight in the Great Hall.
As Lily ducked and dived, trying to avoid the food, she could have sworn that she saw McGonagall throw some.
"Ha!" Alice laughed after a particularly large scoop of ice-cream hit Lily. "Oh, you'll pay for that one Prewett!" Lily exclaimed throwing a gigantic slice of chocolate cake at her.
"Ah Evans, my favourite, how did you know?" said Black, jumping forwards and grabbing the cake, only to stuff it in his mouth.
"Think fast Black!" Frank said, launching some treacle fudge straight at his head. The dinner was forgotten, and the night ended with laughter and food everywhere. . .
"That's enough for one night I think," Professor Dumbledore said once everyone was panting from exertion and clutching their sides. His eyes twinkled.
"The names you make up are so creative," Lily snorted as they made their way up the Grand Sttaircase. Honetly, she thought, 'Operation; Lemon Meringue'? "You had planned to do that to Flitwick all along?" she asked. "I think we might actually get away with starting it," Potter said hopefully. "Don't jinx it," Remus laughed. "We knew old Flitwick wouldn't mind."
They met up with Pettigrew in Gryffindor Tower. "All good?" he asked. They all nodded, knowing they would never forget this night.