Thanks:
Remus`sweetie, hazeleyedmarauder, babbling, and aliasfreek
I guess I should say thanks to Anàwiel, too…after all, she did make me laugh until I cried. Even though she was trying to be mean. I'd never got a real flame before; I liked that…you may think I'm weird (one of my best friends did), but that really made my day. I was upset before that…
Just so anyone else decides to flame me, I started writing this when I was just fourteen last February (2004). I am now nearing sixteen, and so you cannot compare my writing then to my writing now. It's impossible! It's so much more grownup now…
Pleeeeeease Read and Review, I'd love you forever!
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Chapter 3, Password Trouble
Remus watched Lily and James chat in the Gryffindor Common Room. They were talking about ideas for the Christmas party, though nobody else knew that.
Sirius chuckled. "What's with Prongs?" He thought for a moment. "No, wait, don't answer that, I know."
Now Lily and James had decided to become more civil towards each other, they'd started spending an awful lot of time together. Beth and Tawn liked to tease Lily about it, telling her that she fancied James, but Lily always protested that they weren't even friends. And it was true.
The two girls trotted down the stairs of the girls' dorm and over to the two Marauders. "Lily's been spending a lot of time with James, hasn't she?" Tawn stated.
Remus nodded, "Yeah," he said, watching Tawny out of the corner of his eye. Sirius and Beth noticed this, and they nodded to each other. Another match-maker job.
Just then, as everyone was preoccupied with things they shouldn't be (James with Lily's eyes, Remus with Tawny, Sirius with ideas to make the people in his head come out of his head, and Beth with how to set Lily and James and Tawny and Remus up together), Peter rushed into the room and announced that Dumbledore wanted to see Lily and James, as he clutched his side and got his breath back.
Lily looked at James wonderingly, and they left together.
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The two Heads arrived at Dumbledore's office just as he was emerging from the portrait.
"Follow me," he told them.
They trailed after him until they came to a portrait with a blonde-haired girl on a Palomino horse on it.
"Password," the girl said pleasantly as they arrived. She looked at the two sixteen-year-olds. "Hey, are these the Heads? Cute."
Dumbledore smiled amusedly at the girl. "Sure, Jenny…" he told her pleasantly. He turned to Lily and James and said, "I assure you will think of a good password. Good day." Then he turned and walked off.
Lily looked at James with a surprised look. "Where does this painting lead?"
"The Heads' Rooms, dear," Jenny replied. "Look, you can't stand there all day. Come up with one quickly, or I'll make it something you won't want it to be."
Lily raised one eyebrow at the girl, who didn't seem to be any older than seventeen. "Um…James?" she asked him, hoping he could help.
"`Marauders are fun'?" he supplied thoughtfully.
Lily rolled her eyes. "How about `James is an idiot'?"
"Sexy idiot?"
"Arrgh. Maybe something simple like `Butterbeer'."
"`Lily is cute'?" James offered.
"I prefer `Butterbeer'…" Lily muttered.
"I will let you think on it," Jenny said impatiently. "Tell me your password later." She swung her painting back much like the Fat Lady on the Gryffindor CR entrance.
The two Heads eagerly entered the room, and when inside, they gasped at the glory.
The room was large and gold, with red, blue, and green decorations everywhere to liven it up. There was a large table in the centre of the room, with a large, comfy-looking sofa lining one side of it. To the other side of the room were two desks; one green and one red for Lily and James respectively. Against the walls were three doors-one for a bathroom they both shared, and one for Lily and James each.
Lily walked over to the door that read `Lily' on it, and entered. She liked this room greatly, she decided.
The room was light green and lilac, with a four-poster bed, a large wardrobe full of clothes, a desk much like the one outside except it was purple, and a large bookcase heavy with volumes. Pictures of Beth, Tawn, and her were everywhere, from every year. Her trunks were already there, placed against the walls so she could sort them out. She smiled, happy with the room.
She turned and went to find James, who was studying his own room.
James's room was red and gold and had Quidditch banners hanging everywhere. He had a large, comfy looking bed positioned right in the middle of the room, and his trunks were against the walls behind the bed. He had many posters of Quidditch and photos of the Marauders together around his walls. There was another red desk and several comfy chairs positioned in various places in the room.
James beamed as he walked over to one of his trunks. Lily watched him with amusement as he started pulling things out and haphazardly threw them on the bed. Lily couldn't help but giggle as a snitch (what was James doing with a snitch? He's a chaser, she wondered) escaped a sock and started flying around the room.
James rolled his eyes at her and leapt in the air, trying to catch it.
"What are you doing with a snitch, James?" Lily asked, chuckling to herself at his bad attempts.
"Improving my skills," he told her, sighing.
Lily nodded, pretending that she understood the relevance between a snitch and a quaffle and from that to the chaser position. "Cool…" she wracked her brains for something else to say. "Do you need help?"
"No, I'll be fine…" There was a big crash as he fell off his bed, but he at least had the snitch in his hand. This set Lily off in another bout of giggles.
Lily couldn't stop laughing. James rolled his eyes, muttering about stupid hyper girls.
"Like your room?" he asked when she'd stopped laughing. Lily nodded.
"Yeah, it's great! You like this one?"
"Yes. Okay, shall we come up with a password so Jenny won't get mad at us?"
"I still say `Butterbeer'…"
"Too obvious. `Lily and James are best friends'!" James chuckled at the thought. He didn't think they'd ever be that close.
Lily raised an eyebrow at him. "You sure about that? I was under the impression that we weren't friends at all."
"Well, let's start over then," he said thoughtfully. He stuck out a hand. "What do you say to being friends?"
Lily rolled her eyes and sighed. "Sure, whatever…" She took his hand and shook it. And that was the start of their friendship.
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Lily struggled so much in Transfiguration that week that McGonagall snapped. "Miss Evans, ten points from Gryffindor and stay after class!"
Lily's jaw dropped. She'd never lost Gryffindor points before, and especially not from a teacher in Gryffindor. She'd never even lost points in Potions before.
But a few minutes later she was confused again. "Mr. Potter, ten points to Gryffindor for a wonderful transformation and stay after class please!"
Lily and James looked at each other and shrugged. Lily thought she was going to be punished, but then why was James there, too?
After class had finished, the two Heads went up to McGonagall. James spoke.
"What did you want us for, Professor?" he asked.
"Well, I've been noticing that you have been having some problems with this lesson, Miss Evans, and yet that Mr. Potter is very skilled at this class."
James blushed at her response though he knew he shouldn't. Lily bit her lip.
"But what does that have to do with James?" she asked.
"If was wondering, Mr. Potter, if you would be so kind as to tutor Miss Evans until she is better in this class."
James nodded and McGonagall waved them away to their next lesson.
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The same thing happened in Charms next day.
"Miss Evans and Mr. Potter, would you mind staying after class?" Flitwick asked them near the end of the lesson. The two friends nodded and stayed behind.
"Miss Evans, I would like to say well done, your Glacius charm is super. But Mr. Potter, you seem to be having difficulty with yours. Miss Evans, would you mind helping Mr. Potter out until he improves?"
Lily sighed and nodded. "You mean tutor, professor? I suppose I could, yes."
"Thank you Miss Evans. You may leave now."
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"What did McGonagall and Flitwick want?" Beth asked.
"Oh, just would James tutor me in Transfiguration and would I tutor James in Charms," Lily told her friends.
"How much time are you spending with him now, Lily? He's not even your friend!" Tawn asked.
"Oh, yes he is. We made up a couple of days ago. And I just spend time with him because we're the Heads. I guess he isn't really that bad when you think about it. He was just being mean because we weren't friends, but now he's okay."
"That's good," Beth said. "I was wondering now if you could see who Remus likes…"
"You like Remus?"
Beth shook her head hurriedly. "Are you kidding? No, of course not. Tawn does." She tapped her friend's shoulder.
"What are you talking about?" Tawn said.
"You're in denial," Beth told her understandingly. "But you do fancy him. And I'm sure he fancies you back."
Tawn shook her head violently. "Nooo, I don't…"
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"Just ask Beth out."
Sirius shook his head. "And who's talking, Moony old chap? You should ask Tawn out."
Remus shook his head. "I could never go out with her. You know why. She wouldn't understand."
"Sure she would," James put in. "She's Muggleborn. She has no reason to think of you badly. Just go for it."
Remus shook his head again. "No, I can't. You couldn't understand what it's like to be me."
James knew that that was true.
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So, I started with all the romancey-stuff. I hope you like it!
And now they're friends. But it's gonna be a long time before something else happens.
I hope you enjoyed that. The beginning I started at midnight this morning, so it might suck a little, but I hope the rest is better. If it isn't…well, I'll just use the flames to light my fire. It's so cold over here…
Well actually, it's June. It's quite warm now. But I wrote that in March 2004, so I guess it would be cold…same thing applies, though.
I edited this chapter! It's edited! lol seriously; better language I hope!
Luv ya people, please review!
-Jayxx
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