You're Such A Baby!
Chapter 5: Facing the school
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"We'll go down for dinner in a minute, squirt. First, you've got to put on some socks and shoes, and a robe."
As Lily went to go get James' shoes from the bathroom and some clean socks and a robe from his room, James waited, for once, calmly on the couch.
Lily helped James putting on his socks and robe, and tied his shoes. As she looked him over, Lily couldn't help but notice how adorable James looked. His red and gold pyjamas with his Gryffindor robes over them. His messy black hair and his big, hazel eyes that sparkled with joy...
'Okay, here we go...' Lily said to herself as she was about to step into the main common room.
She opened the door, and found a packed common room. Since it was about time to go down to dinner, almost every Gryffindor was in the common room. It took a while before the students noticed Lily, with James on her hand, who was trying to go through the common room as quick and unnoticed as possible.
But it was too full to go unnoticed.
"Oooohhhh! He's so cute!" A fifth-year girl said.
"Found a stray boy, have you Evans?" Joked a sixth-year named Barney.
"Who is he, Lily?" A classmate of Lily said.
"Haven't you heard? Lily turned James into a toddler!" Another said.
Finally, Lily reached the portrait hole, Hallie standing next to it.
"Let's get out of here." Lily said before Hallie had a chance to say something.
As the Fat Lady swang closed again behind them, James tugged at Lily's hand.
"Lily? Who were that people? And who's she?"
"Well, James, that's my friend, Hallie, and all those people in the common room were students here. We're going to the Great Hall now, to have dinner, and there will be even more people there."
"Ah... um, Lily? What are students?"
Hallie snorted loudly, but Lily silenced her with a simple look.
"Students are persons, just like you, me and Hallie, and they are here to learn magic, to study."
"Aahh..." James said knowingly. "But you're not a student."
"And why not?" Lily asked, really curious to know the answer.
"Because you don't have to learn anything. You know everything!" James said proudly.
This time Hallie couldn't hold her laughter back, and she giggled uncontrolably.
A couple of minutes later, James tugged on Lily's hand again.
"Hm?"
"What's wrong with Hallie?"
This time Lily had trouble containing her laughter, and Hallie was instantly quiet.
"Nothing." Lily said. "She's just happy."
"Oh..." James said, still looking at Hallie like she was crazy.
They arrived at the Great Hall. There weren't too many students inside yet, and the Staff table was still empty.
"Oy, Evans! I didn't know you were into toddlers!" Ellean Bliston, a Slytherin 7th year said.
"So that's why you don't date!" Another said sarcastically. "I would watch out! They might start thinking things!"
"And you would really like to know how that works, thinking, I mean. Don't you, Park!" Lily retorted.
James walked more closely to Lily. He didn't like those people at all.
"Aahh... Is ickly Jamesy scawed?" That was Snape. "I hope you put him in some diapers, Mudblood, for he looks like he's going to wet himself!"
Before he knew what hit him, Snape was hit with several curses.
"I'd watch that mouth of yours, Snivelus!" Sirius said, coming into the Great Hall. "Before you know it, it's just as greasy as that thing on your head you call hair!"
And, for once, Lily totally agreed with Sirius. How could anyone be so cruel to a three-year-old, even if it used to be a 17-year-old.
Lily, James, Hallie, Sirius, Remus and Peter went on to the Gryffindor table and all sat together, something that was also a very rare thing.
"Why are they so mean, Lily?" James asked from besides her.
"Because they are total jerks. Don't mind what they say. If they do it again, I'll turn them into slugs." Lily said the last part staring daggers in the direction of Snape, who was just getting back onto his seat, helped by his fellow Slytherins.
"Wow Lily, I didn't think I'd see the day you would say a thing like that!" Peter said.
"He's practically one anyway, acting like that towards a little child! How could he?"
"Welcome to the real world, Evans." Sirius said.
"Can it, Black. Now, James, what do you want to eat?"
James, who was looking like his normal happy self again, was looking at the table at all the things that were put there. He pointed at some things and Lily put them on his plate, and then served herself.
Dinner went on rather calmly after that. Lily managed to avoid a foodfight between James, Sirius, Remus and Peter, and after they ate their desert, they got upstairs again.
As they walked, James started to show signs of exhaustion, leaning more into Lily. Lily had wondered how long he'd be able to be so wild. She lifted him up, and soon he was off to sleep into her chest.
They left Marauders and Hallie stopped talking, as not to wake James up, and they walked the rest of the way to the Fat Lady in silence.
"He is cute like this, isn't he?" The Fat Lady said as they were in front of her. "I remember when he was still in his first year - "
"Sugar Pancakes." Remus said, interupting her.
Offended, the Fat Lady swung forward.
"See you in the morning." Hallie said as Lily went straight to the torch.
"Good night." Remus said.
Lily nodded to them. "Hippogryph."
She carried James straight to his room. Put his robes, his shoes and socks off and tucked him in.
"Good night, love." She said as she kissed his forehead.
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