Chapter 4: The Other Side of James Potter
A.N. Sorry I havent been writing, as much as I've been trying to I couldn't! For weeks I've had so much homework and my laptop was being stupid! Oh and I do not own any characters etc. from Harry Potter, they are all J..
The next morning, James woke up and so did Ash, they both found themselves in a very weird position, since all night they couldn't sleep. Ash was sleeping on the wrong side of the bed and James had nearly fell off! After getting into robes and using anti- acne pimple potion and fresh- on the go powder Ash went down to see James talking to some friends. Ash went past him and then went to Rosie who was knitting from what her Grandma has taught her. 'Hey Rosie! What Are you doing?' Asked Ash.
'Oh nothing, just knitting a scarf for myself...' replied Rosie. Ash just smiled and joined her even though she had no idea how to knit! James' face brightened up when his friend passed him a packet of something. Ash didn't really know what what it was, but she guessed it was like some food or something... (Ash with her muggle thoughts!) What Ash didn't know, James was given his order of Stink Bombs which he was going to plant in the Slytherin Common room and stink the whole room up. This was because... Wait. Lets go back in time and recreate why James is planning to do this!
As you know, in the train, it looked like James had just got changed and had come straight from the bathroom/ robe changing room. But the truth is that, he got in a duel with Scorpious Malfoy, one of the hottest but evilest boys in the whole school. At one point Ash did have a small crush on him, when she saw him go into the train when she was on the platform. Now back to James. James was walking and obviously he didn't know where he was going, and he walked into the slytherin area where all the 'Evil' people sat! Every person stared at him and recognised him as 'Harry Potter's son' or 'That Potty Boys Son' but then Scorpious Malfoy came up to him and nudged him and asked him 'Potter, what are you doing in OUR place?'
James replied 'Oh I don't know, maybe I just wanted to get to the toilets?' While pointing at the Boys toilets. 'Dont you dare have that stinking sarcasm on me Potter!' Shouted Scorpious. 'Dont you dare call my sarcasm stinky!' shouted back James. Then James and Scorpious got into a fight, just like Harry and Draco used to. As you call it, like father like son! The only spells they both knew were Flipendo and Expelliarmus, James started the fight using Flipendo and Scoripious fell to the fall but then easily got up, they both eventually got used to each others spells and them got tired of the same two spells they were using until... Poppy Parkinson came and knocked out Scoripious. From that moment James had always liked Poppy and wanted to get her more, the only way he could was through someone. Someone she knew? Someone she was close to. Then he spied behind her back and he saw that she knew Ash and that the only way he could get closer to Poppy, was going to get close to Ash. From then on, he's tried his hardest to get close to Poppy but instead he's getting closer to someone he doesn't really want to know. In the last chapter, I said both of the (Ash and James) knew was going to happen next, but I didn't say they were thinking the same. Ash was thinking she would get close to James and finally find someone she could be close to and someone who would always be there to protect her, but James was thinking that he was getting close to Ash which was one step closer to getting close to Poppy. Back to the present day, James was setting off to sneak into the Slytherin common room with his friends and with his invisibility cloak when Ash popped up and said 'Hey James, what are you doing?'
'nothing, it's really nothing for you to know...' replied James with his head bowed down. The light in Ash's face died and with a sigh, she went up to the girls dormitory for some alone time. She was really bored and as much as she wanted to talk to someone, everyone was gathered around James, being nosey in what he was doing… This was the side of James Ash had never seen. She thought James was someone who was kind and sweet and someone who was also fun. But she was wrong, James was like every other boy, a boy which makes friends and then ditches that person and then becomes friends with some other person….
Ash really wanted to be close to James, but she was right, she was never going to be with anyone she thought to herself for a while. Poppy was downstairs so Ash decided to tell Poppy about how she was feeling, but the time she had gotten down, she saw something, something which broke her heart, made her cry, make her feel the worst she has ever felt... That moment which she had worried might happen... That moment which she dreaded...
Ash thought she wouldn't ever be betrayed like this, she felt what she had read in books and stories when she was little…. Why did this happen? Ash thought to herself, why?...