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Chapter 2, Becoming Heads
SIX YEARS IN THE FUTURE
Petunia grimaced as another of those really pesky owls flew through the downstairs window. She was grateful that Vernon wasn't in; he'd be totally freaked out. She hadn't exactly told him that his future sister-in-law was a witch. That would come after the wedding.
She heard jumping and screams coming from the sixteen-year-old's room, and after five minutes deigned to relieve herself of the misery and quieten the girl.
"What on earth is it now?" she snapped angrily at Lily.
The redhead beamed at the blonde. She chucked a piece of paper over to Petunia so that she could read for herself.
Petty unfolded the paper and scanned it.
Dear Miss Evans,
We are delighted to inform you that you have received the position of Head Girl. You will need to attend a meeting on the Hogwarts Train the day you come back to Hogwarts. You will find your badge in the envelope.
Sincerely,
Your headmaster,
Albus Dumbledore
Deputy Headmistress,
Minerva McGonagall
"So, you got a badge and a flipping HG position. So what?"
Lily didn't give in to her sister, and rushed downstairs, proudly sporting her HG badge.
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Tawny picked up her phone and pressed the answer button. "Hi," she said into it. She smiled over at Beth, who was staying over for the summer. "It's Lils," she mouthed over.
"Get Bethie on the other phone," Lily told her. Beth grabbed the other handset after Tawny repeated this to her.
"Guess what, girls," Lily started.
"What?"
"I'M HEAD GIRL!"
"Yeah, well I got your Prefect position," Tawny said smugly. Beth huffed.
"Why am I always the reject? I didn't get any positions. Wait!"
At that moment a barn owl flew through the window with a letter in its beak. Tawny chuckled as Beth eagerly ripped open the envelope and cheered.
"So much for that. She got Deputy Quidditch Captain."
Beth was a Quidditch chaser and trained religiously every day until she fell into her bed at night. She'd tried teaching Tawny and Lily Quidditch: Tawny vaguely got the idea and was able to grasp the concept of chucking a ball through a set of hoops as she played netball, but Lily couldn't understand it at all. Sometimes Beth reckoned this was because the infamous James Potter was on the team too, and they couldn't stand each other. Coincidentally, he was Captain this year, a fellow chaser, and one of Beth's good friends. She knew him well enough to know that he wasn't as arrogant as Lily thought him to be, and wasn't half of a player as it was rumoured. She knew he had a slight soft-spot for Lily and thought that if she and Tawny played their cards right they could get the two of them to date.
And it didn't hurt that Beth fancied Sirius and Tawny didn't think Remus was at all bad-looking.
But Lily was insufferable. She wasn't going to even be sociable around James, so they knew they had to devise a plan to beat all plans.
They just didn't know where to start.
"Hello?"" Lily's voice through the phones reminded the girls that they were still talking to the remaining third of their famous trio.
"Hey girl! Looks like we're all gonna be partying on the train next week. You know who HB is?"
"Nope, but I hope it isn't Potter. Anyone but Potter."
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"POTTER?"
"And what may I do for you milady?" James chuckled evilly and brushed locks of raven-black hair away from his mirth-filled hazel eyes.
"You can start by telling me that isn't what I think it is pinned to your uniform."
The trio's party had been going well. They'd invited the other two Gryffindor girls in their year into the compartment, and they were just as thrilled.
"Omigosh Lily! You're so lucky! You get to work with whoever the HB is! I bet he's really fit!" Alice said dreamily. Alice Nesbit had short and curly dark brown hair and blue eyes. She had a thing about cute guys, and even though she was too shy to ever talk to any of them, she frequently fantasised about the boy of her dreams, who she'd recently started going out with. He was a few years older than her and had finished Hogwarts. His name was Frank Longbottom.
The other girl in their dorm was called Madison le Lievre. She had hip-length black hair with red all over the bottom where she'd dipped it in Wendy's Witch Dye. Everyone had tried to talk her out of it before she did it, but it looked great.
The five of them had been talking for ages about all of their successes and boys, when who should open the compartment door but James Potter, with his loose black robes on over his uniform and a large, unmistakable four-coloured badge on his chest. Lily felt like she could die.
Beth chuckled lightly, trying to make a joke out of it all. "Well hey, at least you know that the HB's not an axe murderer."
Yeah, and not fit, too! Lily thought. She looked over at James, her evil glance unwavering. "Oh no," she breathed.
"Oh great," James muttered angrily. "No wait, you're old enough. Oh
shit."
The remaining four girls looked at each other. So maybe they weren't going to like each other quickly…
"What are you here for, Potter?"
"Heads' meeting, Evans," he told her in as few words as he could manage. "Let's go."
Lily gave him a curt nod and turned back to the girls. "I'll be back later, see you." She left.
The meeting lasted an hour, and just finished when they arrived at Hogwarts. There they all got off, and headed towards the castle in the carriages.
After another sorting ceremony, another of Dumbledore's famous speeches (which all sounded the same to Lily now), and an introduction of the two Heads, Lily and her friends headed down the familiar corridors to their common room; ten new first years trailing nervously behind them.
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The next day Lily had Double Potions followed by Double Charms and then Double Transfiguration.
Double Potions was hard as usual. Lily was quite good at the subject, but she was partnered up with an annoying Slytherin called Rose Hawthorn who had spindly legs, a waist the size of a pen, long blonde hair and blue eyes, and an amazing crush on James Potter.
Why on earth would a Slytherin fancy a Gryffindor unless they were mental? Lily asked herself. Barbie was certainly mental, as she proved it when she turned their potion bright pink when it was supposed to be dark purple (an inverting gravity potion), and took the blame herself instead of saddling Lily with it as any normal self-respecting Slytherin would.
Lily vaguely understood that Barbie thought that if she took the blame instead of letting a Gryffindor, Lily's fellow Gryffindor James would like her.
Though in real life it just made him think she was stupid, as his hand actions proved.
And that lost Gryffindor five points for rudeness, and another five for insolence when James protested against the first five. Smooth.
Charms the following period was a breeze for Lily. She loved casting spells and making things hover. On the other hand, James found it extremely hard.
That day they had to form fire in a mug on their tables, and then freeze it. Lily flicked her wand and said the spells quickly. The fire froze.
"Well done Miss Evans, ten points for Gryffindor," tiny Professor Flitwick said pleasantly. He was very proud of Lily as she was his best student since forever. "Oh no, Mr. Potter! You weren't supposed to make the fire gain in power…" He gained an idea. "I don't suppose you could help him out, Miss Evans?"
You're right to not suppose, because I won't, Lily thought snappishly. But she knew that wasn't what Prof. Flitwick would want, so, sighing, she got up to help James out.
James was awful at Charms. She didn't understand why, as it was so easy, but she guessed he didn't pronounce the spells right or something like that.
"Wave your wand like this," Lily instructed him. James watched her movements and tried to copy them. "Then say the word like this." She spoke the spell. "Glacius!"
James repeated the spell, mispronouncing it. The flames leapt up even higher; now several feet above the mug yet not
spreading over the edge. James bit his lip, nervous.
Lily sighed and extinguished the flames. She showed him the spell again and again, and eventually he got it.
"Thanks, Lily!" he said automatically, forgetting that he usually called her Evans.
The room silenced. Everyone turned to stare at James. They'd never heard him call her Lily before.
James shrugged his shoulders and looked at everyone as if they were mad. "What's everyone looking at me like that for?"
Sirius's jaw dropped. "You just…you said…I can't…"
"You can't speak, how about that?"
Sirius shook his head and sighed. Remus turned to smile at Beth and Tawny. The two girls raised their eyebrows and nodded inconspicuously in the direction of Lily and James. He got the message and beamed. "Yup!" he mouthed back.
The lesson finished without anything more interesting happening, and James still not realising what he'd said. The went to the Marauder end of the lunch table and Lily went to her end.
"Well, that was surprising," Tawny stated.
"Yup," Lily replied absently. "It certainly was."
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Transfiguration was so hard.
As Lily looked over to James's table she got annoyed. This boy, who had so much trouble freezing fire with a simple
charm, was finding this effortless. His mouse had turned into a jug almost before Prof. McGonagall had told them the
spell. Lily, on the other hand, had just managed to give her mouse a tail-like jug handle and a long pointy spout for a
nose.
McGonagall sighed. "Mr. Potter, would you help out Miss Evans before her mouse has a heart attack?"
James bounced up and Lily cringed, knowing he was going to gloat at being better than her at something. But instead he just helped her the way she'd helped him during the previous lesson.
At the end of the lesson, Lily smiled up at him gratefully. "Thanks James," she told him.
He blinked. "What did you…?"
She shrugged. "You called me Lily last period."
"Oh. So that's what they meant…"
"Besides, isn't it a little childish? I mean, we're in the same house and we're Heads together. Shouldn't we be on first-names terms now?"
He nodded his head. "Sure, Lily."
"Great, James."
And at that moment, even though they still weren't friends, Tawny, Beth, Remus and Sirius knew that they'd at least slightly forgiven each other.
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I hope that was better. It was waaaaay long. I decided to make it long because I knew that if it wasn't, it would be boring. I'm glad I made it longer, though I'm not sure if I put too much story into it.
I've just got my idea for some of the story! Yay! I know how some of the chapters are going to go! Let's just say, the romance is not going to come for a long time. They have to become friends first. I'm not gonna make them go `oh, I love you! Let's make out even though we're still not friends!'
I hope you enjoyed that,
Luv ya,
xxxJayxxx
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