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Lily was very, very, very, very, confused. Befuddled. Confuzzled. Bamboozled. Whatever you want to call it. For six long years, Lily had despised James Potter. Hated. Detested. Loathed. Scorned. All those words work. However, now, every time he was nearby, Lily stomach would do back flips and she could no longer yell at him like before, when she could scream at him for almost 15 minutes straight without stopping. Now, when she got within two feet of him to start yelling, her heart would begin jumping around wildly, and she would have to run away as fast as she could, leaving a clueless James Potter behind her.

She didn't know what was going on. Well, actually that was a lie. She did know what was going on, she just refused to believe it.

Lily was very relieved when she woke up the next morning and she was Lily again. Being Potter was very uncomfortable. When she passed by the halls all the other fake-Marauders who were probably actually girls, would be staring at everyone, like they usually stared at the real Marauders. But because all of Hogwarts was being occupied by the 'Marauders', there was a lot of staring going on, and Lily hated it. She also had to wait extremely long to use the washroom, and she was quite sure it was because Marlene and Mary were admiring their reflections of Sirius and Remus in the mirror. Alice was another story. She had chosen Peter out of pity, and with those watering eyes and rat-like face, she hated looking in the mirror and whenever she caught sight of her reflection as Peter, she would give a squeak of disgust or terror (Lily couldn't tell) and she would run, doing an uncanny impression of the real Peter.

After some disastrous consequences after answering the Marauder's questions, this time she was determined not to answer this time.

"I'm not going to check the questions anymore." She told her friends confidently the afternoon the next ones had been posted.

"Okay." Marlene said. They all went back doing homework. Lily's eyes narrowed and she was suspiciously looking from Marlene to Mary to Alice and back. Normally, if she knew her friends, they would begin screaming and overreacting, begging her to rethink her decision, so why did they suddenly not care?

Well, she thought, if they don't care, I won't either! She said in her head defiantly. She went back to her essay. Or rather, tried to go back to her Herbology essay. She flipped through the book.

Dittany is a powerful healing herb and restorative and may be eaten raw to cure shallow wounds.

Go check the notice.

Flobberworm mucus is a popular potion thickener.

I know you want to. I mean, don't you want to find out what it says?

The nagging voice at the back of her head was at it again.

Aconite is sometimes called monkshood or wolfsbane.

Don't you want to read it? Don't you want to? DON'T YOU? OF COURSE YOU DO!

Lily scowled and buried her nose deeper into her book.

The cry of the Mandrake is fatal to anyone who hears it.

Cry. Lily wanted to cry. She liked James bloody Potter, for god's sake! She gasped, but her friends ignored it. Forget what you just thought, she told herself. It almost worked. Almost.

The Wiggentree is a magical rowan that will protect anyone touching its trunk from the attack of Dark creatures.

Dark creatures. Remus was a werewolf, Lily had figured that out long ago, but she didn't care. Remus was still Remus. He was still one of the Marauders. Marauders. James Potter was a Marauder too!

Never eat the leaves of the Alihotsy tree (also known as the Hyena tree). These leaves cause uncontrollable laughter.

Hyena. An animal. What was up with the Marauder's nicknames anyways?

Moly is a powerful plant that can be eaten to counteract enchantments. It is a black-stemmed plant with white flowers.

Finally! She found what she was looking for.

Enchantments. That reminded her of the questions. Or was it because a specific Marauder was rather enchanting?

Lily kept reading. When she was done, she looked at her piece of parchment. Normally, as she read the book, her hand would begin writing and by the time she had finished reading, her essay would also be done. Not this time. Her paper was empty except for a few messy splatters of ink in the bottom right corner.

Exasperated, frustrated, and annoyed, she closed her book loudly and huffily stalked out the library without saying anything to her friends.

When she left, Alice looked up and smiled smugly. "I knew she'd cave soon!"

Lily fast-walked back to the Gryffindor common room and to the notice board which was covered in papers.

"Back to yourself, I see. Pity. I quite liked it when we dominated the world. Or at least Hogwarts. Anyways.

Which teacher is the most annoying?

Good luck.

P.S. Go out with me, Evans?

P.P.S. It's Potter if you didn't know.

P.P.P.S. And you don't need to answer, I know what you're going to say already.

P.P.P.P.S. You're going to say yes, of course!

P.P.P.P.P.S. Right?

P.P.P.P.P.P.S. Of course.

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S. See you this Hogsmeade weekend!

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S. I can't wait!

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S. Bet you can't, either. ;)

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S. Bye-bye, love. :)"

This was when Lily was supposed to start yelling.

"I knew it!" squealed a voice. Mary. "I knew'd you'd cave, Lily! We tried to act like we didn't care, but we knew'd you come anyways!"

Marlene groaned, but she grinned. "Oh, just go ahead blurt out our whole plan, Mary!"

"Heh. Sorry."

Lily glared. "You planned this?!" She tried to lunge and them but because of her unmoving feet, she fell face down on the floor.

She stood up and nursed her nose. "I hate you guys." She groaned. "But I don't know how to answer this!"

"How do you not know?"

"Because they're professors!." Lily said, as if that solved everything.

"Exactly! I chose Binns. The obvious choice, I think. The way he just drones on and on irritates me." Marlene explained.

"Well at least he teaches, unlike…!" A light bulb went off in Lily's head. "Professor Castallanta. That stupid Divination teacher, how she predicts everyone's death; she's a stupid stupid stupid fraud!"

"All right then…" They backed away at Lily's furious outburst and she turned back and wrote Crystal Castallanta in her loopy handwriting.

She shuddered just thinking about what might happen. And she found out the next morning.

Lily didn't wake up in her pajamas, but she didn't notice at first. It was nearing February, and because of the cold weather Lily slept in sweatpants and and t-shirt. She always woke up wearing that. But not today. She didn't even notice until she had caught sight of herself in the bathroom mirror.

Instead of her usual sleepwear, she was wearing an ugly olive green cotton dress. There was a deep red scarf tied around her head in the place of a headband and many thick-chained necklaces hung around her neck. There were black thick-rimmed round glasses perched on her nose, and a thick woolen shawl was wrapped around her upper body. Lily immediately knew who she looked like.

She was almost an exact replica of Professor Castallanta and she looked terrible. Lily looked even worse than the real Divination professor, and that was really saying something.

She ran to her closet. Every single outfit was the same as the one she had on.

"Potter!" She roared, and sped out the door and down the stairs, holding up her long dress with her hand. Mary's yell sounded after her, followed by others, and soon, there was a huge crowd of people in the common room, all of them dressed as different professors.

They all waited impatiently. About fifteen minutes later, the Marauders finally skipped down the boys' dormitory stairs cheerfully. "What's go-ah, I see our spell has taken effect. Have fun!" They quickly left.

Lily was the first person in the Great Hall again and was immediately seen by McGonagall's sharp eyes.

"Miss Evans! What are you wearing?!" She exclaimed, aghast. Lily took one look at the professor and had to restrain herself from yelling "Professor! What are YOU wearing?!"

Professor McGonagall waited for an answer, even though she probably knew the answer already anyways. And besides, she was in no position to talk, for she was wearing the exact same outfit Lily was.

Lily was saved from answering when more students in teachers' clothing moodily trudged into the Hall. Clear comprehension dawned on McGonagall's face, and she muttered 'Marauders'. She knew there was nothing she could do.

Alice, Marlene, and Alice all came in later, all of them looking pale and translucent. Though they were walking, it looked more like floating instead, and they were obviously the girl versions of Professor Binns. They were also bald.

Lily immediately cracked up laughing and for a moment she felt like her own outfit wasn't that bad, compared to theirs.

"I pity you." She said, wiping tears of laughter away. They grumbled in response.

The Slytherins looked like Marlene, Alice, and Mary; all of them were bald and translucent, looking similar to ghosts. But it seemed like Lucius Malfoy, Severus Snape and Narcissa Black were singled out. They all wore a long robe adorned with star shaped sequins, and they all had Dumbledore's long white beard. It was hard to say who looked the most ridiculous.

"Ugh, figures I'd get the worse choice again!" Alice moaned when she saw the Slytherins. Lily privately disagreed. After her moment of laughing at them, she began feeling very uncomfortable in her hot clothes. It felt stuffy and Lily hated it. But there was nothing she could do. By this time she had learned that no spell would work on these and she had stopped trying a long time ago, because it was all in vain anyways.

Breakfast was very eventful, with all the teachers in other teacher's clothing which belonged to the professor who they disliked the most.

Lily was extremely glad she didn't take Divination anymore. The professor misunderstood the whole thing. Instead of thinking she was being mocked, she thought she was being honored, and she cornered Lily in the Great Hall right after lunch.

"My dear…" Her voice wobbled as she approached. "Thank you, thank you!"

"For what?" Lily snapped. She had little patience with this teacher, and past experiences didn't help either.

"Your clothing, darling, of course!"

Lily became even more irritated. "What about them?" She shot back snobbily.

"Just that, I always knew you secretly liked Divination, dear…I wondered…Why have you not continued it? Why, indeed…"

"Like Divination? I don't-" Lily began, but she was rudely cut off when the professor's face brightened.

"No worries, dear, I understand." She patted her head. "You love the subject, but after you found that you have absolutely no talent in it, you pretended to hate it and you quit. I'm very sorry, Miss Evans, maybe you can find another subject if Divination is not right for you." She smiled and hobbled off.

"I didn't know you secretly loved Divination." said a snide voice. Lily whirled around and nearly tripped on her long gown.

"What do you want, Potter?" She demanded angrily.

"Nothing." He said smugly. "I just overheard you two talking, and I never knew you had a secret passion for Divination!"

"I don't!" Lily said, glad she didn't have to run away yet.

"That's not what I heard." He smiled slyly.

"Potter-" Lily began.

"No worries, darling!" He said, imitating the professor. "I understand." He patted her cheek and began walking away, chortling.

Lily did not know what made her say it. All she knew was that one minute, he was walking away and Lily was holding her burning face, and the next minute, she had called after him.

She blurted out, "Wait! Aren't you going to ask me out?!" She clapped her hand over her mouth and then buried her face in her hands. She turned to run, but ran right into Potter, who was standing in front of her with his hands in his pockets.

He smirked. "Now, normally, I would, but not today."

Lily half wanted the earth to open up and swallow her whole, but the other half was threatening to burst into tears. James Potter not wantto ask her out? She mentally smacked herself for being so overdramatic. (Stop it, Lily! It's just Potter, you've never cried over Potter before! Well, except for the time he embarrassed you in front of the whole Great Hall. And the time he punched Evan Boot because he asked you out. And the time he dated that Hufflepuff…Alright, fine. She'd cried over Potter a lot of times. But it was never because he said he didn't want to ask her out.)

Lily was pulled from her reverie when James began to talk again.

"So, not today, Lily. It'd be too weird, like I'm asking Professor Castallanta to go out with me." He shuddered and made a disgusted face. Lily unconsciously breathed a long sigh of relief.

Now, back up a bit! Hold on a second, why did she care anyways? Ah, she knew why she cared. Because he didn't like Professor Castallanta, so he wasn't a gerontaphile. Yes, that must be it. But Lily knew that Potter wasn't a gerontaphile already. If he was, he wouldn't have been asking her out for the past five or six years. Lily hated it when she found big holes in her own argument.

She sighed deeply in resignation. She had to admit that her reason was extremely stupid. The only reason she would be relieved that Potter still liked her was because she liked him back.

But that idea was absolutely preposterous!

Sadly, yes, it was ridiculous, but it was true. If someone had told her five or six years ago that she would be admitting to herself that she liked Potter in her seventh year, she would either have accused that person of being of Potter under Polyjuice Potion or started a long rant about all the horrible things about James.

She liked James Potter. It finally hit her, smacking her right in the face. Lily gave an extremely loud gasp, turned, and ran, not hearing James mumble behind her: "Well, I guess I made a little progress…"

Lily sprinted back to the Gryffindor common room, hoping she wouldn't bump into anyone.

"Mary, Marlene! Alice!" She called. They were lounging on the couch. Lily grabbed Mary and Alice's arms. "You too, Marlene!" She dragged them upstairs, huffing and puffing.

"Lily-What's going on?" Mary exclaimed.

Suddenly, Lily felt very awkward and afraid. She looked at the floor and shuffled her feet. "I need to tell you guys something."

There was a long pause.

"Oh, no! Did you get a T on the Charms Essay?" Marlene suddenly yelled. She burst out laughing.

"Guys! This is serious!" Lily shouted, and everyone sobered immediately.

Silence.

"You're not pregnant, are you?" Mary broke in, looking genuinely worried.

"ARGH! Gross! No! Never! That's just-Ugh!" Lily blurted.

They all breathed a sigh of relief, like they were all thinking the same thing.

"You're not seeing someone secretly?" Alice supplied.

Lily scowled. "Of course not!"

"Then what is it?"

"I-I-" She stuttered. Lily leaned forward after looking around for eavesdroppers and said in a low, pained,whisper. "I think I-I might l-like James P-Potter."

Their reaction was not what she had expected.

"I knew it!" They loudly bellowed together.

"Ha! It's not Christmas yet, you owe me ten galleons, Marlene!"

"You owe me five, Mary! It's not Easter yet, either!"

"Yes! Fifteen galleons to me!"

"You owe me too, Alice!"

"I can't believe I lost!"

"Now I can buy that sparkly color-changing ink I wanted!"

"YOU GUYS BET ON THIS?!" Lily screamed.

They all looked at her with an 'are you stupid?' look.

"Of course! I think the whole school bet on you!"

"Yeah! When everyone finds out. lots of people will be raking in the galleons!" Alice added cheerfully.

"Wait a second!" Lily snapped. "I am not telling anyone. And you are not going to either!"

"Why not, Lily?" Marlene pouted.

"Because Potter does not like me back." She stated forcefully.

They all looked at her incredulously. "Are you stupid, Lily?" Marlene said.

"He's been asking you out since fifth year!"

"…Fine." Lily crossed her arms. "But we still aren't going to let the new leak out. Right, girls?" She added menacingly.

"Awww…" Mary said, but at the frightening look on Lily's face she quickly agreed.

"But Lily! This could be your only chance for Happily ever After!" Marlene said.

Lily snorted. "I'll have tons more chances. Don't be silly."

"I am NOT being silly!" Marlene said indignantly.

Lily shot her a hard look, and that was the end of that conversation.

Sadly, it led to other conversations like:

"Psst. Lily!" Alice whispered.

"What?!" Lily snapped back. Alice had been calling her name nonstop, and she was trying to take History of Magic notes!

"Look behind you!"

Lily huffed and turned 180 degrees. Potter was leaning back on two legs of the chair and when he saw her looking, he winked cheekily.

Scowling and ignoring her fluttering heart, she turned back to her notes, occasionally shooing away Alice's hand which was continuously trying to poke her shoulder.

Lily was already regretting telling her teasing friends but she knew that there was no point keeping it from them anyways. They'd notice her acting weird and would worm it out of her.

Lily wished she could turn back time to when she still wholeheartedly despised Potter and there were no conflicting feelings. But she couldn't. So day after day she endured the fast beating of her heart and the light blushes. Lily already acted odd before, but now that her crush was confirmed, she acted even weirder, always leaving behind a confused James Potter. Poor boy.

A/N

Pretty long, eh? :) Right, the bolded words for 'the nagging voice' is a bit confusing, and it was hard to figure out which ones to bold myself, so sorry if you get mixed up a bit.

This idea is from x. Nymphadora .x (without the spaces because it doesn't work) I tweaked it a bit. Thanks!

There might also be some mistakes. Feel free to tell me; i won't get mad or anything :)

I know that not much about the question or the results happened much in this chapter, but that's because this chapter is focusing on Lily finally admitting that she liked James.

And yes, she admitted it a bit early in the story, but I'm thinking that somewhere later there's going to be something that makes Lily try super hard to hate him again. We can't have Lily being all lovey-dovey already, right? :P

Finally, you know the drill! Review!

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