"Hey, Alice! Wait up!" Lily called to her other best friend. She ran and caught up to the Fortescue. "I heard about you and Frank," Lily whispered, smirking.
A light blush rose to Alice's cheeks and she laughed dreamily. Shaking herself out of her reverie, she asked Lily, "Have you seen the notice board? The Marauders just posted something."
"The introduction to the poll?" Lily asked. Seriously? Why is everyone talking about that? It's just a survey thing, She thought. But she was being hypocritical. Even though she would never admit it out loud, Lily had also been thinking about the polls a lot. She couldn't help windering what the Marauders wanted to ask Hogwarts and the reason for it. No matter what she did, the upcoming questions stayed firmly planted in her mind.
"Nope, they posted another one. The first question!" Alice seemed excited.
"Oh, what's it about?" Lily tried to act uninterested, but her mind was secretly begging Alice to tell her.
Alice shook her head, grinning from ear to ear. "Not telling." She sang. "If you want to know, then you have to go and check the notice board yourself. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go see Frank." Alice blushed, then skipped off happy, leaving Lily half annoyed and half amused.
The redhead sighed and walked towards the board, spotting a piece of parchment that looked extremely similar to the one before it. Lily leaned forward and read, "Here is the first question! Now, you may think that this question is stupid, but we have a reason for asking it! So here it is: What is your favorite hair color?" Lily paused.
That was definitely not what she'd expected. She'd thought it would be something funnier, possibly like 'What magical animal do you think we should set on Professor McGonagall?' Or something like that. Something more creative. This was neither creative nor funny. It was boring. Dull. Common. And that was what surprised Lily so much, because she had expected something so different. But the Marauders obviously knew that some people would react like this and think that it was stupid. That's why they added that note about having a reason for asking this, and Lily felt that they were talking to her. She was too predictable.
Shrugging, Lily pointed her wand to the squared marked 'red', and prepared to utter the spell. She paused. Was red really her favorite hair color? She never really gave it much thought. Lily stood there absent-mindedly twirling a strand of her ginger hair around her finger.
Why was this so hard? It was just a simple question. Lily bit her lip and her eyes scanned the students of the common room, observing their hair. None of the colors stood out to her, until Lily caught sight of a boy standing not too far from her. His hair was jet black. It was a pretty common color, but there was something unique about it. Lily just couldn't put her finger on it.
Mentally shrugging, Lily turned back to the notice, and without giving it a second thought, she muttered Deoptus, her wand pointing to the square marked 'Black Hair'. Lily turned and began walking to the girl's dormitory stairs. On her way, she caught sight of the raven-haired boy's face.
It was James Potter. Bloody hell, she was just admiring James Potter's hair.
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"Marley!" Lily called to her friend, who, like always, was still in a deep sleep, snoring under the covers. Lily sighed, then tiptoes to the side of Marlene's bed.
"See, Sirius, shhh, Marlene's still sleeping!" Lily whispered to no one.
"No!" Marlene shouted, bolting out of her bed. "I'm not presentable!" She stopped yelling quite abruptly at the sight of Lily cackling madly at the foot of her bed and no Sirius in sight. But the reason she stopped wasn't because of Sirius's absence or Lily's laughter.
"Lily-your hair!" Marlene yelped. "What happened?"
"What? What happened to my hair?" Lily, confused, snatched a clump of her now jet-black hair, gasped, and ran screaming to the bathroom mirror. There was another scream and Lily emerged, muttering furiously.
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh-OH MY GOSH!" Lily pointed a finger at Marlene. "Your hair-it's white!"
The next few minutes were utter chaos.
When they finally calmed down, Lily asked "Do you think this has anything to do with the poll?"
A white-haired Alice clapped a hand to her forehead. "Of course! I chose white, so my hair is white, so the color you chose is the one your hair becomes!"
Lily wrinkled her nose. "Why'd you both pick white?"
Alice blushed. "Frank knew something was going to happen. He dared me to. Um..What about you, Marlene?"
Marlene hissed angrily, "At first I chose brown, then these words popped out. 'YOU CAN'T CHOOSE YOUR OWN', it said. Then I chose black and then 'TOO CLOSE! TEEHEE!'" Marlene scowled. "I was so frustrated I just chose white."
Alice hooted with laughter, "What about YOU, Lils? Black's your favorite hair color, hmm?"
Marlene giggled. "I wonder why!" She sang.
Lily scowled, realizing what they were implying. "Not because of THAT! No way!"
They chortled, but then because solemn. "What now? I look like a grandma!" Marlene whined.
"Well, there's nothing we can do…"
Minutes later, The girls had stumbled into the Great Hall, just to see that everyone's hair color had changed drastically. The Slytherins weren't able to vote on their hair color, so they all had hot pink, bright bubble gum-colored hair.
Alice nudged Lily and pointed to someone in the Gryffindor table. James' hair was ginger, the color that Lily's used to be. No one needed to ask why he chose Lily's hair-they all already knew. But the most surprising of all was the teacher's hair.
They were very colorful. Dumbledore looked the oddest of all. His beard was highlighted with different colors of the rainbow but he didn't look angry. Instead, he looked calm, and even amused as he stroked his vivid and showy beard.
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It turned out that the hair color lasted for a whole week, and Lily still wasn't used to her black hair. People could tell that James was quite enjoying being a ginger-he even seemed quite down when the colors finally faded back to their natural color.
Lily had cornered the boys and given them detention, but she knew very well that that wouldn't have ANY impact at all on the troublemakers.
There had been so much trouble already and this was only the first question, and even though Lily would never admit it, she was quite looking forward to what other things the Marauders had cooked up.
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A/N
Yay, the second chapter :) I know I had that poll thing, but then I changed my mind so sorry if you took it. LOL. Like I said on my other story, I'm going on vacation. I just wanted to get this chapter up because I know some of you wanted it :] I'm so nice. You know what I deserve? A review. (hint hint) Review! :)
I changed Alice's last name to Fortescue, because JHeap97 said that her last name couldn't be Prewett. Sorry if in future chapters it still says Prewett. Tell me if it does!