Lily's Sixth Year P.G 13(FINISHED)

[Seremela Lorelonda]

This is my fic that I have been writing for a while.
The beginning isn't that good. My first fic. But as it goes omn it gets better.

disclaimer:Harry Potter belongs to Warner Bros, Scholastic, JK Rowling.... I don't lay any claim to it. However, the characters Alex Hall and Cody Gibbson do belong to me. If you wish to use one of them, please ask my permission.

Ch.1 To The Train

Lily awoke early on September 1 to the sound of her alarm clock. Moaning she rolled over and shut it off. Then she sleepily got out of bed and put on a pair of white pants with a red olng sleeved shirt.

She took one look around her room to make sure she didn't forget anything. Then she took her trunk downstairs to the kitchen.

" Good morning Lily. " Her mother said.

" Morning. " Lily replied, siiting down to eat a piece of toast.

" Do you have everything you need for school? " Her father asked.

" Yes. " Lily said.

" Then we better get going. "

Lily haulled her trunk to the car and then clinbed in the backseat with her sister.

At the station she said her goodbyes to her family. Then she walked through the barrier of platform nine and three quarters.

" Evans. " A familiar voice said from behind her.

Lily instantly recognised the voice. Sighing she turned to face him. " Potter. "

" Did you have a nice summer? " He said giving her the same smile he always did.

" Yes. Not that it's any of your business. " She replied cooly.

James put on a hurt face. " I was just trying to be nice Evans. "

" Sure you were." Glareing at him Lily turned on her heel and walked toward the train leaving James standing there.



Chapter two: New Student.

Lily walked down the hall of the train until she came to a carmpartment with just one girl in it. She had long brown hair, green eyes, looked to be about 6'3, and was wearing a pair of black pants with a dark blue shirt. Lily opened the door.

" Do you mind if I sit here? " She asked.

" No. Go ahead. " Lily came into the compartment and put her trunk on the rack with some help from the other girl.

" I don't think I 've seen you before. " Lily stated sitting down.

" I just transferred from America. I'm Alex Hall. " she held out her hand which Lily shook.

" I'm Lily Evans. So what house are you in? "

" I'm in Gryffindor. How about you? "

" I'm also in Gryffindor. " Just then the compartment door slid open to revile the marauders.

" Hello Evans. " James said without even noticing Alex.

" Oh great. " Lily said annoyed.

" Aren't you going to introduce us to your new friend? " Sirius asked from behind James. " Hello. I'm Sirius Black. This is Remus Lupin, James Potter, and Peter Petigrew. " He said motioning to each in turn.

" I'm Alex Hall. " She said shaking all of their hands.

" Well, now that you know each other you four can leave. " Lily said more annoyed than before.

" What's wrong Lily? " Alex asked confused.

" Trust me. You don't want to become friends with them. It will only get you in trouble. "

James put on a hurt face. "Lily I'm hurt. I can't believe you would think that I'd ever cause trouble. " The rest of the marauder were having a hard time trying to keep from laughing.

" Oh don't give me that 'I'm hurt act." I know you better than to believe it. " Lily said coolly.

" Have it your way. " Remus stated as all four boys turned to leave, still laughing.

" About time. " Lily said. " We better change into our robes. WE should be there soon. " The two girl got changed just as the train began to slow.

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Chapter 3:The fight.

They got off the train and headed towards a carraige, stopping to say hi to Hagrid, who Alex was a little frightened of. They climbed into a carriage with Alice and Frank.

" Hello. " Lily said sitting down next to Frank.

" Hey Lils. Who's this? " he said gesturing to Alex.

" I'm Alex Hall. And you are?"

"I'm Frank Longbottom and this is my girlfriend Alice Logan. " he said pointing to Alice.

Just then the carriage rolled to a halt in front of the castle. They climbed out and began walking up the steps. They followed everyone to the great hall and took a seat half way up the gryffindor table. They were soon joined by the marauders. Lily let out an annoyed sigh and did her best to ignore them. Though she couldn't help over hearing part of their conversation about hexing Snape. Lily just shook her head and watched as the first years began to come in.

Professor McGonagald brought out the hat. Lily listened to it's song then watched as the first years began to get sorted.

As the sorting went on, Lily tried to ignore the marauders who kept talking about their prank on Snape. After a while though it was starting to get to her.

" Will you four shut up. " she hissed.

" Why don't you mind your own business. " Sirius said narrowing his eyes at her.

Lily was about to say something when the headmaster stood up.

" Welcome, " said Dumbledore. " Welcome to a new year. I'm sure your all Hungary so tuck in. "

Food appeared all along the table. Lily could hear Alex and James talking about quidditch.

" Yes. I'm going out for chaser. " said Alex.

" Well, I hope you make it. Good luck." James said.

Lily just rolled her eyes. She didn't really like quidditch and didn't understand why anyone would spend so much time on it. She just turned away and started a conversation with Alice and Remus about their new potions teacher.

" What's his name? " Alice asked.

" Umm..I think it's Professor Artice. " Remus answered.

" What do you think he's like? " Lily asked. They both just shrugged.

At the end of the feast Dumbledore stood up to make his speech. " I'm sure your all tired but I have a few things to say before you go to your dorms. A reminder to all students that the forest is off the limits. Also I would like to introduce our new potions teacher, Professor Artice. " The students all clapped. " Now Prefects show the first years to their common rooms. "

As soon as Lily stepped out of the hall she noticed that all the students had cleaned a section in the hall. She went over and saw that James and Severus were arguing. They both had their wands pointed at each
other.

Lily went over to both of them. " Stop it both of you. " she said sternly.

" Shut up you filthy mudblood. " He then turned to Lily and hit her in the face. She stumbled back into the wall.

James was furious. " How dare you. " he said as all four marauders lept toward Severus. Lucious then joined in trying to help defend Severus. A huge fight was in progress when the teachers all came out of
the great hall.

" Stop this. " McGonagald screamed. All six boys stopped fighting.

" Report to my office right away. " Dumbledore called. " All seven of you. " he said motioning to the boys
and Lily.

Lily just stood there shocked.

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Well Done, Seremela! 50 House Points!!

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Thanks.
I still have to post up to chapter 20 then I have to finish writing it.

Chapter four: Punishment.

They all walked quietly to Dumbledores office. They were all so nervous that no one would evn dare to sit down.

Dumbledore, McGonagald, and Gibson, the Slytherin head, came into the office.

" Please sit. " Mcgonagald motioned to seven chairs. They all nervously sat down. They could tell that the Proffesors were mad.

After a moment of silence Proffesor Gibson spoke. "What do you think you were doing? " He paused to look at them thewn continued with his rant. " You all know better than to fight. " The student knew they were in a lot of trouble now that Gibson was yelling at them. He was the calmest teacher there. If he was mad they would hate to see waht McGonalgald was felling.

" Calm yourself Cody." said Dumbledore gently.

" Calm myself? Calm myself? Dumbledore these students are the ones that need to calm themelseves." cried Proffesor Gibson histarically.

Dumbledore patter him on the shoulder trying to calm him. The slytherins just looked down ashamed.

Lily was too nervous to be ashamed. she didn't know why he was even there. She wasn't the one fighting. But she knew she was in huge trouble anyway. The thoguth of this made her even more nervous. Her stumach was doing flip-flops. She was rarely in trouble, part of the reason she was made a prefect, and sitting there in the office terrified her. She started to shake a little. James noticed this, everbyone else was to foccussed on Gibson. James grabbed her hand trying to comfort her. She pulled away as soon as he touched her though.

After Dumbledore and McGonagald calmed Gibson, McGonagald tuned to the students. Peter let out a wimper but everyone else just sat there is silence. Lily was still shakeing a little. Mcgonalgald looked at themn sturnly. " Do any of you realise how much trouble you are in? " She said more calmly than anyone would have expacted. But still no one even dared breath. " you all have detention for the next three weeks. " They now all let out moans. The Slytherins glared at th gryffindors as if it was all their falt. Dumbledore looked at both Lucius and Severus, who both instantly reuturned there gaze to McGonagald. She continued. " You are all to report to your head of house to get your punishments starting tomoorow. " They all nodded silently.

" You dismissed. " Dumbledore said.

They all stood up and left.

When they got to the end of the steps Lucius turned to face them. " You better watch it. Especially you mudblood. : He and Severous turned and left toward ther commom room while Sirius and Remus tried to hold James back so he wouldn't hit Lucius. Lily just turned and stormed off toward Gryffindor tower.

~*~*~*~*~*~

When Lily got to her dorm everyone was asleep except Alex. " What happened? " She asked.

Lily flopped down on her bed. "I got three weeks detention. " She said angrily.

" But you didn't even do anything? "

" I know that. " she snapped. Noticeing the hurt look on Alex' face she said " Sorry. " only half careing. She fell back onto her bed and screamed into her pillow. " I hate them. " came her muffled voice.

" We all know. Now shut up. " Alice said from her bed. The other girls muffled agreements then fell back asleep. Lily took the pillow off her heda then fell asleep also.

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Chapter5: Beaten

Lily awoke early the next morning. She quickly took a shower and put on her school robes. She tied her hair into a neat ponytail and gathered up all her books for class. She headed down to the great hall with Alice and Alex.

When they got to the great hall McGonalgald was already passing out the schedules.

They took theirs and sat down. Lily noticed the marauder come in. She just turned away hoping they wouldn't come over. To her great surprise, they didn't. Alex nudged her and nodded to the Slytherin table where Lucius and Severus were deep in conversations

"What do you think they're up to? " Alice asked.

" Whatever it is I bet it's about me. " Lily replied. " But I'm not going to stick around to find out. " She stood up. " I'll see you all later in class. " She left the hall but failed to noticed that some Slytherins followed her.

She turned down the corrider when she heard someone call her name. She turned to see a gang of Slytherins. There was Malfoy, Snape, Avery, Lestrange, and two of the Black sister. They were blocking all of her ways out. Lily started to panic a little. " What do you want Malfoy? " she asked trying to hide her fear. He just smirked at her. His eyes were piercing into hers and she could no longer hide her fear. A small whimper escaped her lips. She could tell that this made him happier. The rest of the Slytherins already had their wands pointed at Lily, except Lucius. He slowly began to walk toward Lily. She began to walk backwards until she walked right into Severus. He grabbed her arms. She couldn't move. Lucius was right in front of her. The others were now laughing. This only made Lily more scared. Lucius began to reach towards her. She was terrified now. She tried to free herself from Severus' grasp but failed. She closed her eyes and waited for what would happen.

Lily felt her cheek burn with pain as Lucius struck her. She could hear roars of laughter from the other Slytherins. Severus released her and she opened her eyes. She stared pleadingly at Lucius. But he only grabbed her by her throat and slammed her into the wall. " Please. " She barely managed to gasp. " Don't. " But he was getting to much pleasure out of this. He struck her again and she collapsed on the floor at Narcissa's feet. Lily could feel a sharp pain shoot through her body as Narcissa kicked her in the ribs. Everyone was closing in on her her, wands pointed at. her shot out various spells. She let out screams that would have scared even the faults of creatures. She was in terrible pain.

Then she saw Avery and Lestrange fly backwards. Sirius and James came into view,their wands pointed at the Sytherins.

" Leave her alone. " Sirius said through clenched teeth.

" And what if I don't? " Bella stated.
Both Sirius and James shot hexes at her. Pretty soon a fight had broken out. James shouted. " Expelliamus. " and all their wands shot out of their hands. He quickly gathered them up. He and Sirus were pointing their wands at them, they were defenseless. " Leave her alone. " Sirius repeated.

Lucius sighed. " Fine. " he said reluctantly.

James threw her wand at them and they left. He rushed over to Lily who was c.gif[/img] d up by the wall crying from the pain. He gently picked her up and started to walk towards
the hospital wing. She laid her head on his shoulder and was soon unconscious.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Hours later Lily woke up in the hospital wing. She tried to sit up but fell back in pain. She had 3 broken ribs and lots of bruises and cuts. She looked around and saw James watching her from the next bed. It looked like he was hurt almost as badly. How did he manage to carry me here she wondered. But his voice brought her back from her
thought.

" How are you feeling? " He asked. But she didn't say anything, only moaned.

After a moment of silence she asked " How are you. "
Sighing he replied. " All right. " he smiled. " Atleast we get out of detention.

Lily smiled and rolled back over. After a moment she turned back to him. " James. " he turned to her. "Thank you. " She slowly said.

He smiled and gently said just above a whisper. " Your welcome."

She rolled back over and fell asleep.

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Chapter 6 Potions

“How can they not believe you?” Alice asked outraged. She and Alex had gone to visit Lily and James in the hospital. They had both been there nearly two week.

“I don’t know.” Lily replied frustrated. “Somehow they convinced Dumbledore it wasn’t them who attcked me.” They all fell silent. Lily looked around miserably. She was tired
of being in the hopsital.

As if Alex had read her mind, she said, “Atleast you’ll both be out of here tomorrow.”

“But we still have a week of detention to do.” James said glumly.

Lily sighed. “Don’t remind me of that. I still don’t see why I have detention. I wasn’t the one fighting.” she said angrily.

“Oh like this is all my fault.” James said.

“I didn’t say that.”

“I wasn’t the only...”

“Oh shut up both of you.” Sirius said coming in and sitting on James’ bed. They both glared at him. “What?” He asked while smiling. “You two are always fighting.”

Alex just rolled her eyes at him, even though she knew he was right, and looked over at a stack of parchments. She started going through them amazed. “I can’t believe you
missed all our lessons and still did better than me on all the homework.” She said to Lily.

“Lily’s the queen of homework.” James said sarcastically.

Lily who didn’t find this funny coolly replied, “Atleast I don’t have to copy off of Remus.” Jame opened his mouth to say something but shut it again. He knew it was true that he copied. He didn’t need to copy but he did. He sat there looking ashamed while everyone else laughed at him.

James looked over at Sirius. “You shouldn’t be laughing Padfoot, you do the same.” This made Sirius frown. He didn’t have anything to reply to that.

Alice pretended to be shocked. “Sirius has nothing to say! Thats got to be a first.” Everyone else errupted in laughter.

Sirius pretended to pout. “Fine. I’ll just go find Remus. Atleast he likes me.” Snuffling, he got up and left. As soon as he left though, everyone burst into laughter. Once they were all calm Alice said. “We should probably go too.” They said bye to eachother and the two girls left.

~*~*~*~*~*~

The next morning Lily walked into the great hall for breakfest. She was so happy to be out of the hospital that she was practically skipping. She went and took a seat next to Alex with a huge grin on her face. “Morning” she said happily.

“Morning.” She replied. “Your awfully chipper today.”

“Yup. I’m just so happy to be out of the hospital and back with my friends.”

“Really? I never would have noticed.” Sirius said sarcastically as the marauders and Frank came into the hall and sat down by the three girls.

“The only bad thing is the week of detention we now have.”James said.

“Atleast you didn’t have to do the first two weeks of detention with the Slytherins.” Remus said glumly.

“Well I would have prefered the detentions instead of being attcked.” Lily replied coolly. Remus looked down ashamed. “Sorry” he quietly mumbled. Quickly trying to
change the subject Frank reminded them all that it was time for class. So the 8 of them stood up and left for potions. This would be the first time Lily or James would have class
with the new teacher.

“What’s he like?” James wispered as they arriived at class. Sighing heavily Sirius replied “Horrible.”

Professor Artice strode into the class with a menacing look on his face. “Today we will be working on health potions I will separate you into partners...” the whole class moaned. They hated who he put them with last class. “...and you will begin the potion.” Everyone was sorted into pairs. Alice with Lucius, Alex with Veruka, a Slytherin girl, Frank and Peter, Sirius and Narcissa, bad idea cousin together, especially when they don’t get along, Remus with Severus, and Lily with James, oddly Lily didn’t seem to mind this. (Is that a sentence or a run-on? I have no idea but am thinking run-on?)

About half-way through the class they all heard a loud bang as Peter and Frank’s potion exploded. “You stupid boys.” Professor Artice shouted. “How could you be so dim-witted as to let this happen.” The whole class had gone completely silent. “ Answer me.” he screamed.

“I..I..I’m sorry.” Peter gasped.

“Sorry? It’s a little late for sorry. You both will recieve failing marks for today. Now clean this up.” He turned to face the rest of the class. “Get back to work.” He snapped.

~*~*~*~*~*~

After class the 8 gryffindors walked down the corrider together. Frank was still trembling from what had happened in class. “He was way out of line.” Lily said. “What he did was just horrible. He shouldn’t be aloud to teach here. How could Dumbledore possibly hire him?” No one answered her. They silently walked to charms class.

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CH 7: Detention
Later that night James and Lily went to get their detention assignments from Professor McGonagald.

“Tonight you two will be helping Mr. Snape clean the fith floor corrider. Apparently someone thought it would be funny to flood it.”McGonagald informed them.

“Professor you can’t actually be making us work with Snape.” James pleaded. “Especially after what he did to Lily.”

“Yes I can make you work with him. And you have no proof that he was involved with what happened to Miss Evans.”

“But I...”

“Mr Potter. If you continue this I will take points and extend your detention days.” James fell silent as he and Lily left for the fith floor.

“I can’t beive she’s making us work with him. She knows he’s responsible, she has to.” James rambled.

“James, it’s all right. Don’t worry about it.” James stoopedsuddenly and turned toher.

“No Lily. It’s not all right. What he did to you was...” He didn’t finish, only sighed. He shook his head and looked down thinking of what to say. Then he turned his head back and looked her in the eyes. After a moment he spoke. “What he did to you was horrible.” He said sympathetically.

“Really James I’m ok.”

“But...” She gave him a kiss on the lips. (mainly to shut him up) “I know your conserned and want to protect me but you don’t need to.” He wasn’t listening. He was too shocked from the kiss. Rolling her eyes Lily turned and continued to walk down the hall. James finally came to his senses and followed.

When they arrived at the corrider, Severus was already there. “What are you doing here?”He sneered.

“McGonagald said we’re to help you, which you clearly need in more than just cleaning this hall.” James replied coolly.

They were both mad. ”This has got to be the worst way to spend detention.” Severus spat.

James was about to respond when Lily cut him off. ”Why don’t we just get to work? The sooner we get done, the less time we have to spend with each other.”

“For once the mudbloods right.”

“James started to pull out his wand when Snape turned his back but Lily stopped him. Snape happened to notice this and said. “That’s right mudbllod. Keep your boyfriend under control before he gets hurt.” Severus grinned melicisly.

“He’s not my boyfriend. And I doubt you could hurt him.” Severus’ grinned instantly went away. He pulled out his wand and was about to cast a spell when Professor
Gibson came by.

“What do you think you are doing?” He said directing his question at Snape.

“I....I....she..” Snape stuutered.

“Don’t try and blame Miss Evans. You are the one pointing your wand at her. You know the rules. No magic in the corriders. I’m going to have to take 10 points from you and give you another days detention.”

“But...But” The Professor had all ready walked away.

“If your done stuttering like an idiot why don’t you help us clean, Snivellous.” Lily said with a huge grin on her face. Reluctantly he began to help clean.
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Here is part of the next chapter. I still have to type the rest.

CH 8 Dateing.

The detentions went better the rest of the week, but they were all glad it was now Saturday.

All of the girls had left the dorm except for Lily and Alex. “Do you want to come with me out onto the grounds?” Alex asked.

“No, I think I’m gonna go to the library to finish my homework.”

“Where’s the fun in that?” Lily sighed and walked out of the dorm leaving Alex sitting there. “What?” She called after her. “Oh well.” she said to herself.

Alex walked out onto the grounds and headed towards the lake. She took a seat against a tree and stared out onto the water.
“Want some company?” A voice from behind her asked. She whirled around so fast that she nocked him down.

“Sorry. You just startled me.” She said while helping him up. “Are you ok?” she asked worried.

“Yeah. I’m fine. Don’t worry about it.”

“What are you doing here?”

“Come to see if you wanted some company?
“Sure.” she said while smiling at him. “Where are your

friends at?”

“Don’t know. How about you?”

“Alice is with Frank and Lily’s in the library, as always.”
“Yup. She practically lives in that library.” They both laughed. He started shifting around. “Ummm...Alex...Could I tell you something?”

She looked at him couriously. “Sure. Go ahead.”

He looked her in the eyes. “I...I...I like you.”

She looked relieved and smiled at him. “I like you too.”

He let out a sigh of relief. “Really?” she nodded. His smile was so wide now. “Will you be my girlfriend?”

“Yes.” She said instantly. Then leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
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Later that night everyone was already in the common room when Remus and Alex walked in. Sirius instantly noticed they were holding hands and had a big grin on his face. “So what have you two been up to all day?” he asked teasenly.

“None of your business Padfoot.” Remus said playing
along with his joke. Alex just rolled her eyes at the two and sat down on the couch next to Lily. Lily gave her a wicked grin, but Alex playfully shoved her off the couch.

“Hey.” Lily screamed. Everyone burst into laughter.

“Ok, lets not tease Alex and Remus.” James said. “I’m sure these two love birds don’t want us bothering them. You know if you want to be alone our dorm is empty.” He said with an evil grin. Alex threw a book at him which he dodged. This just made everyone laugh harder.

“You’re all having too much fun with this.” Remus said annoyed. “I’m going to bed.” He stood up and headed towards the stair case. They heard him mummble. “If only I could lock you all out.”

“Just for that...” Sirius said as the other four boys ran up the stairs after him.

“Poor guy.” Alice said threw her laughs. “We should probably go to bed too.” The three girls got up and headed toward their dorms.

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CH 9 Quidditch tryouts.

A notice had been posted in the common room that quidditch tryouts would be in a week.

“I can’t wait to try out for chaser.” Alex said.

“Well good luck. I hope you make it.” James said. “There are two spots for chaser open.” James was so happy to be captain this year that he could hardly sit still. Lily
happening to notice this told him to calm down. “Just because you hate quidditch doesn’t mean I can’t be happy about it.”

“I don’t hate quidditch.” Lily stated angrily.

“You should try out Lily.” Alex said. “Have you ever played?”

“No. And I’m not going to.”

“Please.” she begged.

“You might as well just to make her happy. It’s not like you’ll make it anyway.” James said with a sly smile.

“And why do you think I won’t make it.?” she asked coolly.

“Well, your not the athletic type.”

She was so angry now. “You know I will try out.”

“Yea.” Alesx shouted. James just sat there happy that his plan had worked.

~*~*~*~*~*~

The day came when tryouts were to be held. Alex and Lily had been practicing all week. Lily was starting to get good, and was even beginnin to like it

They walked down to the pitch together. The four member of the team were all ready on the field. The three open spots were tow chasers and a keeper. Everyone trying out waited for instructions from the team. First they warmed up by throwing the qaufle back and forth. Then the keepers were tested. The players took turns trying to score against
them. All three people trying out did really well.

Then it was time for the chasers to be tested. All seven of them monted their brooms and flew up into the air. They were to try and score against someone playing keeper on
the team. Lily swerved around the other players and just barely caught a pass from James. She darted off towards the goal and threw the qaufle as hard as she could. The keeper
dove but missed by inches.

“Nice job, Lily” James called to her. She smiled. She couldn’t believe how great she
felt.

~*~*~*~*~*~

The results of who made it were posted the following day.

“I don’t want to look.” Lily told Alex.

“Me neither.” she replied.

“Fine. Then I will.” Sirius said as he came down the steps from his dorm. He went over to the buliton board and looked at the sheet. He came back over smiling. “You both made it. Congratulations.”

“Yea.” Alex called out.

“I take it you both saw the results.” James said coming into the common room. “Congratualtions.” He said giving them both hugs. He turned to Lily. ”I got to hand it to you. I never thought you would be that good. But I’m glad you proved me wrong.”

“Sense I’m guessing that was suppost to be a compliment, thank you.”

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Ch 10. Holloween.

Before any of them new it Holloween was approaching. They were all swamped with homework. “There is no posible way to get this all done.” Sirius complained

“Well you shouldn’t have put it off until the last minute.” Remus replied.

“Yeah Si, it’s not our fault you waited so long to do your homework.” Lily said.

“Well, the teachers just gave us so much homework I didn’t want to start on it.” Sirius told them.

“Your logic makes no sense.” Peter started.

“Does it ever?” James asked.

“Why does everyone have to pick on me?” Sirius asked.

“Because it’s fun.”Lily told him

“Not to mention easy.” Alice said.

“Hey.” He protested.

“Well look on the bright side, tomorrows Holloween.” Frank
said trying to change the subject.

“Yup. I love Holloween. It’s my favorite holiday.’ Most of them nodded agreements.

They stayed up talkingfor a while then slowly drifted up to their dorms.

~*~*~*~*~*~

The following evening the five boys were waiting in the common room for the girls.

“Hurry up.” Frank yelled up the steps.

Lily and Alex appeared in the doorway. “Don’t blame us. It’s your girlfriends fault. She takes forever to get ready.” Lily called down to him then slammed the door
close.

They waited for about 15 more minutes and then the girls finally came down. “About time.” Peter said.

“Shut up.” Alice snapped at him.

“Sorry.” He quietly mumbled.

“Come on.” Sirius said as he turned toward the door.

“You all go ahead. I need to talk to Lily.” James said. Lily gave him a courious look.

“All right.” Remus said. The other four boys knew what he was going to do. Alex and Alice gave them odd looks. “We’ll tell you later.” Remus wispered.

James waited until they all left and then turned to Lily. “i know I’ve asked you this before, but after all that has happened this year I have to ask again.” It dawned on Lily what was going on. She kept quiet and let him finish. “Lily, will you be my girlfriend?”

~*~*~*~*~*~

Lily and James came into the great hall and took seats with their friends. “What did she say?” Sirius whispered to James. He was about to answer when a bunch of first years ran in screaming. Following them were a bunch of vampires.

Everyone began to panic as they attacked. Most of the students were trying to run out of the hall while the older students were helping the teachers fend off the vampires. It was total chaos, spells flying, people sreaming, both vampires and humans laying dead or
injured.

When about half of the vampires were dead a large group turned and fled while the rest made sure to give them a clear, safe path. After they were sure the group was gone, the rest retreted.

Dumbledore called to the students to go and wait in their common rooms until their head of house got there.

~*~*~*~*~*~

They went to the back of the common room, trying to stay away from the rest of the Gryffindors as much as possible. They were still shooken up and didn’t want any more chaos.

After a moment Frank finally broke their silence. “Why do you think they were here?”

“Who knows.” James answered glumly. “What are you doing?” he asked Sirius who was looking around frantically.

“Alex isn’t here.” he replied nervously.

“What?” Lily said conserned as they all looked around the common room.

A second year boy who had been listening came up. “She was taken by them.” he said quietly. “Her and that Slytherin girl. I think her name is Black.” he said then went back to his friends.

They sat there not saying a word. They were all too scared of what might happen to Alex, they couldn’t have cared less about Narcissa. Lily began to cry. James put his arm around her and she rested her head on his shoulder.

A few moment later McGonagald came into the packed common room. “Quiet down everyone.” she sramed over the noise. Lily pulled away from James and focussed her
attention on the teacher. “Now I’m sure by now you have all heard what has happened to Miss Hall and Miss Black. I assure you that we will find them.” Only the younger students seened assured. “This matter will be dealt with.” she siad before leaving.

[Dumbledore]

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Chapter 11 Worried

The following morning Lily and Alex were lying on the floor in the common room. Alice was lying on the floor starring at the ceiling and Lily was c.gif[/img] d up on the couch with her head on her knees, neither had said anything to each other. The boys came down from their dorm into the common room and sat in various places in the common room, each looking as grim as the girls.

After a while Alice spoke, “Do you think they’ll be found?” she asked as she got up and sat next to Frank on the couch.

“I hope so,” Lily replied in a quavering voice, not bringing her head up off her knees. The way she said this made everyone else feel even worse. Tears started to fall down Alice’s face, and Frank pulled her into a hug.

They all sat like this until Lily pulled her head up off her knees, her eyes red from crying. She slowly stood up and quietly said, “I'm going for a walk,” She gave James a quick hug before leaving.

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Lily aimlessly wondered along the grounds. There were many people outside. Most of the younger students were talking frantically about what had happened. The older students, mainly in Gryffindor and Slytherin, sat pretty much alone, lost in thought. Most looked as depressed as she was.

She hadn’t been paying attention to were she was going and bumped into someone.

“Sorry,” They both said together. Lily turned to face the other person and found herself looking at Lucius Malfoy. Malfoy’s usual scowl was gone and replaced with a look of depression. He noticed how oddly she was starring at him. “What do you want Evans?” He asked calmly, as if they had been friends.

“Ummm....just wondering if you’re alright.” she said nervously.

“Like you actually care,” He said trying to sound angry but failing.

“I lost one of my friends too,” He opened his mouth to say something but closed it again. Sighing he took a seat near a tree and motioned for her to do the same. Hesitantly
she sat down across from him. Neither one said anything, just looked around the grounds.

After a while Lucius broke the silence. “I’m just so worried about her,” concern in his voice. “Actually, about both of them,” Lily raised her eyebrows. “ I know...odd isn’t it. I’ve hated Alex all year and here I am worried about her.”

“I have to admit I’m worried about Narcissa too,” Lily confessed. A small smile came across her lips. “Weird how these things happen.” Lucius nodded in agreement. “Yesterday I wouldn’t have cared if she died, and now I’m worried about her. Not to mention sitting here discussing it with one of the people I hate the most.”

Lucius nodded another agreement. “Yup, It's weird how these things happen,” he said quoting her.

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Chapter 11-part2

Lucius looked up at the castle. “What would your friends think of us talking?” he asked turing back to her.

“They’d be furious with me,” she responded. While nervously looking at the common room window. “Suppose your friends would too.” He nodded an agreeement. “But especially James,” Lily said lowering her voice and turning back to Lucius. “He’s oddly very protective of me.”

“What is it you see in him?” Lucius asked. “Hasn’t he been a jerk to you.”

“So have you. But I’m still sitting here talking with you.”

“Yes, but, we’re not friends. Never have been.” He pointed out. “Anyway, from what I hear you two are now dating. Is that true?”

“Yes.”

“Then answer my question. How can you stand him when he has been so mean to you?”

“It’s just that....” she sighed. “He’s…different. He’s matured.” Lucius rolled his eyes. Lily stared threateningly at him. He held his hands up in mock surrender, while trying not to laugh. “He has,” she stated. “James is a lot nicer now. He’s no longer a complete jerk to me. He’s actually a really great guy, and...”she glanced at him. “..and I can see you’re not believing any of this, or even caring.” They both began to laugh.

They continued to talk all day about anything and everything. They barely noticed when the sun began to set. “We should go in,” Lucius said as he stood up.

“Yeah.” Lily agreed as he helped her up. “Thank you for taking my mind off Alex
today.”

“The same to you.” They both smiled at each other.

They began to slowly walk back to the castle. “I never thought I could have a good time with a mud...uh...a muggle born.” Lucius said with an apologetic face for almost calling her a mudblood.

Lily just ignored it and replied, “Well, I never thought I could have fun with a Slytherin.” They both smiled at each other again.

“Well, thank you again,” Lucius said as they reached where they would part.

“You too,” Lily said. Lucius leaned over and gave her a small kiss on the cheek before turning and leaving. She stood there shocked for a moment, then turned and continued on her way to the common room.

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Chapter 12. Threats and worries.

There weren’t many people in the common room when Lily returned after day with Lucius. She spotted James and went over to him. “Hi.”

“Hi.” James replied hottily.
She looked at his courously. “What’s is it?”

“I saw you talking with Malfoy today.” He saidangrily.

“James, I...”Lily froze, looking worried.

Ignoring her he continued. “How could you be with Malfoy all day?” He said with a raised voice.

“We were just talking James.” Lily said getting angry. “And why do you care so much anyway?” Her voice was rising. The few people that were in the common room were now listening intently.

“Why do I care?” he said furiously. “I care because my girlfriend just spent the whole day with my enemy.” His temper was flarring. "He’s a Malfoy, Lily. You know what his family is like.”

“So? Sirius is a Black. His family is just as bad.”

“That’s different.” he stated.

“How?” she yelled.

“He’s now a Slythein.” he yelled, his voice raising above hers.

“Well, maybe not all Slytherins are how you think of them.” Lily said, a deadly look in her eyes, daring him to challenge what ahe said. When he didn’t reply, she turned on her heel and stormed up to her dorm.

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Three week had gone by and Lily and James had not said another word to each other. They didn’t even talk when they were partners in potions. Sense their fight thewy had try to stay as far away from each other as possible.James was even more mad now that Lily
and Lucius had been spending more time together.

Their friends did their best to get them to talk, but
their efforts were in vain.

It was Saturday and Sirius, Remus, Peter, Frank, and Alice were sitting by the lake trying to come up wit hways to get them to talk.

“There is nothing we can do.” Alice said hopelessly.

“There has to be something.” Sirius said. “I’m not giving up on this.”

“There is nothing Si.” Remus said sadly. “We’ve thought of everything possible. Nothing will work.” At these words everyone fell into a depressed silence.

After a while, Peter was about to say something, when an owl dropped a letter in his lap. “What’s that?” Frank asked.

Peter shrugged. “Don’t know.” he said. “It’s from Dumbledore.” Everyone leaned
over his shoulder to read three short sentences.

We have found Alex and Narcissa. They are in the hospital,
badly wounded. You may go to see them.
~Dumbledore.

Emediately they all hurried to the hospital. They found Alex lying in a far back bed. They all stood looking sadly at her, still unconsious. She had many bandages. They could also see bite marks.

“How could this happen?’ Alice asked as she to cry on Franks shoulder.

At that moment Lily came into the hospital, closely followed by James. They both froze at the sight of Alex’s body.

Like Alice, Lily also broke down crying. Remus pulled her into a comforting hug. James fell into a chair, putting his head in his hands. Peter was frozen in place. Sirius slowly stepped forward. He sat next to her on the edge of the bed, and slowly brushed the
hair out of her face, tears beginning to form in his eyes at his friends condition. He looked over at Narcissa lying in the bed next to her. For once in his life felt sorry for her, and wished she was here and alright. Tears slowly began to fall down his face.

After a moment Sirius stood up. “I hope she’s ok.” He said, wiping the tears away. “I hope they’re both ok.” Lily pulled away from Remus and gave Sirius a hug.

James pulled his head out of his hands and stood. “We should probably go. It’s getting late.”

Peter, who had been starring at Alex transfixed, finally looked up. “Yeah. You’re right. We should.”

They all nodded agreements and walked out of the hospital wing. They decided to skip dinner, they didn’t feel like eating. So they all just went back to their common room for the night.

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Chapter 13. sadness.

The following week Alex had finally woken up. Sirius and Remus spent most of their Saturday with her. Everyone else had been to see her of course, but Lily and James had to leave for practce, Peter had a load of homework to finish, and Frank and Alice had a date. So, Sirius and Remus, having nothing better to do, stayed with Alex.

“So, what all have I missed?” Alex asked.

“Well, Lily and James were dating.” Remus said.

Alex looked shocked. “They are? I..” Remus held up a hand to silence her.

“They were, but they broke up.” he finished.

“What? Why?” she asked glomily.

“James was mad at Lily.” Sirius informed her.

“How come?”

“Lily and Lucius have been spending time together, becuase of...” Sirius cut himself off, and looked down. Alex gave him an understanding look.

“Well, James doesn’t like it.” Remus added in. “He was furious when he found out. They got into a huge fight.” Remus said. They were all looking dissapointed.

“We have to do something.” Alex said.

“We’ve tried.” Remus said. “There isn’t anything left to do.”

“There has to be.” Alex said determined.

Remus and Sirius shook their heads. “There isn’t.” Sirius said.

Alex was about to try again, but a look from Remus that said there was no use made her reluctantly give up. She looked down defeated, tears forming in her eyes. Remus pulled her into a hug and gave her a soft kiss on the top of her head. “I just don’t want to give up on my friends.” Alex said sadly.

“I know sweatie.” Remus said.

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CHI 14. Quidditch match

Alex had finally been released from the hospital. She sat with her friends Saturday morning before the last quidditch game before the break.

“Good luck.” Sirius said. “Better beat Slytherin, or we’ll never hear the end of it.”

“Oh that’s encouraging.” Lily said sarcastically.

“What?” Sirius asked puzzled, but just shrugged it of.

“Well, we should probably get out on the field.” James said standing up. They all murmured agreements.

They walked down to the pitch together. Sirius, Peter, Remus, Frank, and Alice went up in the stands while James, Lily, and Alex went to join the rest of the team in the locker room.

The team changed into their robes ad went out onto the field. All 14 players rose up into the air. The quaffle was released and caught by a Slytherin, Megan. She raced to the the Gryffindor goal posts and threw the quaffle. But it was caught by the keeper who
passed it to Alex.

Aly sped off toward the other end of the field, just nearly dodging a bludger one of the Slytherin beaters hit her way. She threw the quaffle as hard as she could toward the goal post. The keeper made a dive for it, but missed. The ball soared threw the goal.

“10 points to Gryffindor.” the commentator yelled over the cheers of the crowd.

Lucius grabbed the quaffle and raced off toward the other end of the field. He nearly knocked Alex off her broom as he went by her. As soon as she gained control of her broom again, the Slytherin beater shot a bludger at her. She swerved out of the way, but it hit her foot, and a loud crack was heard. She had broken her ankle, but continued to play through the pain. She sped off after Lucius. She was determined to not let Slytheirn win.

Lucius was already at the other end of the field, Lily and the other chaser, Kris, close behind. They began to catch up, but Lucius knocked Kris out of the way, and she went tumbling to the ground. Lily stopped in panic, giving Lucius the opportunity to shoot the goal. He scored.

The commentator yelled. “10 points to Slytherin. The game is now tide 10 to 10.”

Kris had caught herself before she hit the ground, and had flown back up. Now her, Lily, and Alex had taken off after the quaffle.

James flew around in search of the snitch. He cursed under his breath as heard the commentator announce that Slytherin has just scored another goal. They were now in the lead. Focusing back on the game, he continued his search. He spotted a glint of gold near
the ground and made a dive for it. Unfortuently, the Slytherin seeker saw him and also made a dive for it.

James tried to go faster, but the other seeker caught up to him. He shoved James out of the way, who went tumbling, and landed ruffly on the ground. The fall had knocked the air out of him, and he lay there gasping for breath. But luckily th other seeker had looked back to see James fall, and in the process lost the snitch.

The reff called a time-out to make sure James was all right. As the team flew down to him, James gingerly began to sit up. The reff checked to make sure he hadn’t broken anything, then went off to yell at the other seeker.

“Are you ok, James?” Alex asked concerned.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” he told her. “The Slytherins play dirty. We all know that.”

“I think it’s time we stoop to their level.” Everyone was shocked to see that Lily was the one that suggested it, but after they gained control of themselves, they all nodded in agreement. They made a few hurried plan.

The reff blew the whistle, and all 15 broom rose back into the air. As the quaffle was released again, they set their plans into action. Alex caught the ball and shot off toward the goal post, knocking two of the Slytherin chasers down.

“Looks like the Gryffindor team is mad about what happened to their seeker. They’re not showing any mercy to the Slytherins.” the commentaries voice boomed over the stands.

The beaters knocked the keeper away from the goal posts. As he went tumbling down, Alex threw the ball through the post.

The score was now 30 to 50, Slytherin in the lead.

The game continued with both sides being as brutal to eachother as they could. Then James spotted the snitch. He chased after it, but the other seeker noticed. They both madly chased after it, knocking eachother, along with many other players, out of the way. Lucius got in front of James and tried to push him off his broom, but Lily, having noticed this, went full speed at him, and knocked him to the ground. This gave James the chance to grab the snitch. He rapped his hand around the tinny gold ball, and wiped his head around at the sound of a small yell.

Lily, who had stopped in shock as she noticed that she had knocked Malfoy unconscious, had begun to fall down towards the ground. Luckily James noticed this in time. He made a dive and caught her. Pulling her onto his broom they flew to the ground.

“Thank you.” Lily said in a shaky voice to James once they landed.