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Lily had not slept well. She was kept awake, thinking about the 'astronomy tower incident', as she liked to call it. As she walked through the great hall on her way to a seat at the Gryffindor table for breakfast, she almost tripped over three first years, bumped into the seats about twenty times and actually tripped over Mrs. Norris. As she was falling, she managed to make a whole group of students to join her in her fall.
Everyone in the Great Hall stopped what they were doing and stared at Lily and her companions. They were all silent until a Slytherin shouted, 'LOOK! LILY EVANS IS ON THE FLOOR!' and proceeded to laugh. This made the whole Great Hall laugh.
Lily got up, her face red, and promptly ignored the angry words coming from the mouths of those who fell with her. She found Alice, her best friend, and sat down beside her. Neither girl said anything, they just ate. Lily didn't eat much. She got up and left, being more careful this time, and proceeded to Charms.
James had not slept at all. He had spent his whole night on the astronomy tower, thinking and watching and relaxing. He saw that the sun was just coming up, so he decided to go to class. He didn't go to breakfast, knowing he could get some later from the kitchens. He went up to his dorm, where he found three empty beds - Remus', Peter's and his own. Sirius' bed, not surprisingly, was still occupied. James sighed and got ready for class. He was already wearing his uniform, but he needed his books.
When he was ready, he headed down into the common room, where he ran into Alice.
'What did you do to Lily? You must have done something, she looks upset and she only gets upset because of you. Well, not just you, Black also,' She paused her rant to breathe, 'Lily tripped over a bunch of people in the Great Hall today, she looked really tired as well. So? What did you DO?'
'I hexed her,' he started, but seeing the look on Alice's face, he added, 'But then I took it off! The last time I saw her, she looked happy…' he trailed off, his brow furrowed. What has gotten into her?
Flitwick greeted his students at the door. He had a mischievous grin on his face. Lily looked at Alice as if to say Oh dear and Alice nodded her head in agreement.
'Good morning, class!' The short professor said merrily. 'Today we will be having a practical lesson, however I am choosing who you will work with'
The whole class groaned. Flitwick ignored them and let them into the classroom. On his desk, there were two large glass bowls, filled with strips of paper and the class groaned again.
Flitwick walked up to his desk and stood behind the two bowls. He knew that no one needed an explanation of what he was doing, so he grabbed a name out of the first jar.
'Sirius Black' He paused as he picked out a second name, 'and Remus Lupin.'
'But Sir, he's going to make me do work!' Sirius pouted. As much as he liked his best friend, he liked not doing work more.
'Good. Lily Evans,' Flitwick's words were sharp and Remus told Sirius to stop whinging, 'James Potter,'
'But sir, he's not going to do any work!' Lily unknowingly copied Sirius' tone of voice and sentence structure.
'Of course I will, Lily,' He smiled the smile he used to charm other girls, earning a disgusted look from the redhead. Flitwick continued to call out names. Lily watched as Alice got paired with Severus, and James watched as Peter got paired with a Slytherin girl whom he did not know.
When he was finished, Flitwick launched into the lesson plan. 'Today we will be practising non-verbal spells. Choose your favourite Charms spell and see if you can do it without saying anything,'
Lily wasted no time in starting her spell, first muttering it under breath, then not saying anything. After a few tries, she managed to do it.
'Wow, Lily, thats amazing. How did you master that so quickly?' James was genuinely amazed and looked at her for an answer.
'I don't know, I just did it,' She replied, realising she didn't actually know the theory of her actions, 'Why don't you try?'
So James tried. And failed. Tried again, failed again. He tried all through the lesson, but couldn't do it, 'I give up! I. Give. Up. I can't do it!'
'Yes you can, you just have to keep -'
'Trying? I've been trying this whole lesson, Lily, I just can't do it.'
'Be that way, Potter.' Lily grabbed her bag and left, as the bell had gone.
A/N: Sorry if the characters, especially Lily, seemed a bit OOC, but I didn't have a really good plot. This chapter is a filler. And yes, I decided to make this a multi-chapter story. I thought it would be nicer. Also, please give me some plot ideas because I'm sorta stuck.