You're Such A Baby!
Chapter 6: Classes
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Lily groaned as she heard her alarm go off. She slammed it off, looking at the time.
She groaned again. It was only 5 o'clock!
She sat up, trying to get her mind clear to figure out why it was set this early. Then it all came back, the thorougly exhausting day and her trying to get some homework done yesterday-night. She had failed miserably and had only finished her Charms homework and she had went to bed to do the rest of the homework done in the morning.
She got up and went to the bathroom, having a quick shower to wake up.
Refreshed, she put on her robes for today and grabbed some of her books. She knew they didn't have to be done today, but she had always done her homework as soon as she could, so she didn't have to hurry, and it worked fine with her.
As she got back out of her room, her hands full of books, quills and ink, she couldn't help herself but had to peak in on James.
He looked so adorable. His unruly hair was even messier than normal and his face was angelic, but with the trademark mischievous grin on his face.
She stood there for a while, untill she realized she had homework to finish and, reluctantly, she went down to their small common room.
After two hours of hard work, she was glad to have her homework done. She stretched to flex her muscles a bit as she saw James' door opening.
She got up to see the, still a bit sleepy, face of James coming around the door.
"Hello, squirt, you're up early!"
Lily got up the stairs to James, who was now fully out of his room. He looked confused.
"Lily? Where's my mummy?"
Lily thought quickly. "Don't you remember? You're staying with me for a couple of days."
"Oh... so what are we going to do?" James asked, rubbing some sleep out of his eyes.
"Firstly, we're going to get you dressed, then we'll go see if there's some breakfast downstairs."
After helping James getting dressed, Lily packed her bag, with James looking around her room.
As she was ready, they went out of the small common room, into the main one. They weren't such an attraction as they were the prvious night, and they only got some friendly greetings this time, which Lily, and a very mcuh more awake James returned.
Breakfast was relatively quiet and after a while, Lily and James were joined by Remus, Sirius, Peter and Hallie. Because of James toddlerness, they had put aside their indifferences and were actually quite friendly towards one-another.
About half an hour before the first lesson of the day would start, Lily took James up to Dumbledores office.
She knocked on the door on top of the stairs and a cheerfull 'Come in', invited her in.
"Good morning, professor." Lily greeted the professor who sat behind his desk.
"Hi Dumblore!" James said cheerfull.
"Good morning, miss Evans, mister Potter."
"I'm James." James said. "My dad is mister Potter."
The twinkling in the Headmasters eyes increased as he said: "Of course, excuse me, good morning, James."
"Well, you said you'd watch over James as I went to classes..." Lily said.
"Yes, we'll have lots of fun today, won't we James!"
"Yay! Fun with Lily and Dumblore!" James said exitedly.
Lily got down next to James. "Not with me, James. I've got to go to classes, to learn new things. You have to stay with professor Dumbledore. Okay?"
"But you know everything already!" James said. "So you can stay!"
"I don't know everything, love. Professor Dumbledore knows a lot more than I do, and all of the teachers too. I've got to go to my classes."
"But I want to be with Lily!" James said, looking sad but determined. "I'm going to classy too!"
A smile came on Lily's face at James' choice of words. "You'll find them really boring, no fun at all. If will be a lot more fun to stay here with professor Dumbledore and Fawkes."
"But I want to be with you!" James repeated.
"It will only be for a couple of hours. Miss Evans will be back before you know it." Professor Dumbledore said.
With a gratefull look at the Headmaster, Lily got up to leave for classes. She had to hurry now, to be on time.
But James thought otherwise and wrapped his little arms around Lily's legs. "No! I go with you!" He said, looking up at her with watery eyes. "Please?"
Lily quickly found herself resolve as she saw him looking at her like that. She looked up at the Headmaster.
"I don't think it would be to much trouble if you took James with you. That is, if you don't mind."
Lily looked at James again and ruffled his hair. 'I must be crazy...' "Oh, alright, squirt. But I'm sure you will think it boring. We've got to hurry now, though, if we want to be on time for Transfiguration."
James' face instantly brightened and he grabbed Lily's hand, pulling her towards the door.
Lily heard Dumbledore chuckling softly as she exited the room.
She ran down the hallways to McGonagalls class and made it just in time.
McGonagalls class wasn't full and contained of just five students besides Lily, normally James, Sirius and Remus.
She sat down and unpacked quickly, only then noticing the inquisitive look of the teacher.
"I'm sorry, professor, but James refused to stay with professor Dumbledore, and he said it would be okay if James came with me to class." Lily explained.
She saw how professor McGonagall pursed her lips disapprovingly, and also heard Sirius' soft snort and then a sound that was obviously coming from Remus' foot contacting Sirius' shin as she heard a muffled "Ow!" Coming from Sirius.
"Lily? Who is that?" James asked then, pointing at McGonagall.
"That's professor McGonagall, but you have to be quiet now."
Lily gave James a piece of parchment and some Muggle pencils she had with her and the class went on rather normally, despite the scratching sounds James was making.
McGonagall was explaining about Animagi, and Lily found it a really interesting subject. For a while, she didn't think about James sitting next to her. As she turned to her notes to write something down, she heard the chuckles from behind her and looked up to see what was so funny.
Lily nearly choked in her gasp as she saw what was so funny.
McGonagall, who was facing the blackboard to explain something, wasn't aware of James, who stood right behind her, looking up at the blackboard with seemingly interest, his finger thinkingly on his chin.
This wouldn't have been too bad if professor McGonagall wouldn't have chosen that moment to back away from the blackboard a bit.
James was standing too close behind her and she bumped into him. It seemed to take ages to Lily as she saw how James fell backwards and how McGonagall was trying to keep herself from falling too, taking a step or two backwards. Unfortunately, right there stood a chair and professor McGonagall lost her ballance and fell, quite un-elegantly, on her hindquarters.
The whole class, excluding Lily, James and McGonagall herself, was desperately trying to keep from laughing, failing miserably.
Lily immediately went to the front of the class to see if James was alright. And as she made sure he was perfectly fine, a Hufflepuff helped McGonagall up.
Lily took James back to their seats and McGonagall looked rather angry.
James obviously didn't miss that and looked kind of frightened. "I'm sorry." He said softly.
McGonagalls expression lightened a bit and continued with the lesson like nothing happened.
After Transfiguration, they had Herbology, and James acted like an angel through the entire lesson, looking at the different plants, without touching them, and soon, lunchtime rolled around.
As they went by the Slytherin table, Snape seemed to want to say something, but after seeing Lily grab her wand, Snape seemed to decide it better not saying anything.
Further, lunch was uneventfull.
After lunch, they went down to have Potions.
As they waited to enter the class, Snape seemed to have worked up his courage over lunch, and said: "How cute, ickly Jamesy doesn't dare leaving the Mudblood!"
Lily whipped out her wand, ready to curse Snape into next month, but James was faster.
This time, he didn't get scared, but he launched himself at Snape.
Snape, who didn't expect this, fell and James started punching his small fists on Snapes nose in a rapid fashion that made Lily wonder if he had practiced.
Cursing, Snape whipped out his own wand and pointed it at James. Lily, who saw the danger, pointed her wand at Snape.
"Transfiguré Slug!"
And, with a jet of poison-green light, Snape had vanished and there was a slug instead.
"I must say, there is a certain resemblance! Nice work Evans." Sirius said, who aproached through the hallway. "Though you might want to change him back. Professor Mensa is on his way."
With a wave of Lily's wand, Snape was back and Lily pulled James besides her.
"Don't ever point your wand at James again." Lily said in a dangerously calm voice.
And, like Sirius, the only Marauder besides James that had made it to NEWT-Potions, had said, Professor Mensa appeared just then.
Snape seemed ready to complain about what happened, but then thought otherwise and they all went inside.
The double hour of Potions went by without any accidents and soon, Lily and James together with Sirius made their way to the final class of the day, Defense Against the Dark Arts.
This years teacher was, unlike last-years professor, rather competent, though a bit too much of a softy to maintain order sometimes.
They filed into the classroom. Lily sat in the back, as not to get too much attention to James.
"Lily? When are we going to have some fun?" James asked.
"It's not too long anymore, squirt. Just an hour."
"You know what?" Sirius said, turning back from the seats before Lily. "You can come see the flying after dinner. I'll even take you up if you want to."
"Yay! Flying! Flying!" James chimed.
Lily, meanwhile, bend forward. "Black! If you drop him, you're dead!" She whispered.
Then, Professor Vestimen entered and the class started.
Lily found it increasingly difficult keeping James quiet and out of trouble.
It was only a few more minutes untill the end of class as Lily felt something wet going down her leg. She looked down to see her ink bottle toppled over, covering her notes and part of her school uniform in the blue ink.
"James!" Lily exclaimed angry, effectively getting the attention of everyone in the classroom. "Why did you do that?! Was that fun?"
As Lily started cleaning her notes and her skirt with her wand, James' lower lip started trembling as Lily continued muttering angrily under her breath.
Just then, it was time and all of the students and the professor left the room, save Lily, James, Hallie, Sirius, Remus and Peter.
Just as Lily looked up at James, the wall was bursting and a flood of tears streamed down James' cheeks. "I didn't mean to..." He sobbed and Lily melted right away, pulling James into a hug.
"Shh, don't worry, I'm not mad at you." She said while stroking his small back.
"Really?" James asked, looking up at her with those big hazel puppy eyes that were shining with tears.
"Really, I was just startled." Lily said, brushing away the tears on his face.
A smile came back on James' face.
"Can we go have dinner now?" Peter broke the silence.
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Well, that's chapter nr 6.
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