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(4/1/04 7:00 pm) Reply
An early morning trip to the library
Lily Evans entered the library, stifling a yawn. She had to find a book on advanced transfiguration, Professor McGonagall had hinted the previous night that they'd be working on difficult stuff this year and Lily did not yet have her textbook (Petunia's dog had destroyed it and she hadn't had time to get another).
"Good morning," Madam Pince said. "You're up early."
"Mm-hm," Lily mumbled. She pulled out three books that looked about right and headed to the desk to show the librarian.
"This all?" Madam Pince asked.
"Yes - actually, wait a moment," Lily said, spotting a peculiar display at the end of one of the shelves. "I'll take this book too."
Edited by: YouKnowEmma at: 6/1/04 4:38 pm
James slid in his socks to make the corner and plopped down at the end of the hall outside of the library. He stuffed his feet into his shoes, stood up, and hopped on one foot as he tied them. Grateful for the increased traction, but out of breath, ...which James Potter NEVER is in public..., he slowed to a scramble, looking around to make sure no one was in the vicinity.
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(5/1/04 8:46 pm) Reply
Rrrrip....
Lily picked up her books, stuck them in her full-to-bursting schoolbag, and exited the library.
Not two steps outside, there was a sickening ripping sound. Stifling a groan, Lily looked down to see all of her books around her feet - the bag had split a seam.
"Stupid stupid bag," she muttered as she got to her knees and started stacking the books. How she'd make it up to the common room with all these books in her hands, she didn't know.
Re: Rrrrip....
"ACK!" James stumbled to a stop as the library door opened around 3 feet from his face. He poked his head around the door, scowling as he looked for the evil person was that had tried to bash his brains in. He started in surprise when he saw a peeved looking Lily Evans picking up what looked like a hundred books and a torn bag. Supressing a grin, he rumpled his hair and stepped casually around the door.
James whistled softly and Lily looked up suddenly. "That's gotta be a lot of books to handle without a bag; you want some help?" Without waiting for an answer he knelt beside her and started stacking books in his arms. "Advanced Transfiguration: A Cautious Student's Guide...Self-transfiguration: Humans to animals...Transformation of Large Objects...oh my GOODNESS, HA!" James held up a book, Smurfs: What the Muggles Don't Know, with an incredulous expression, "is this any good?"
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(5/1/04 9:12 pm) Reply
Re: Rrrrip....
Lily snatched it out of his hands and blushed slightly, striving to hide it by focusing her attention on the books on the floor. "I don't know," she said. "It was on the library display."
"It's enormous," James said. "What is it -" he plucked the book neatly back from Lily and flipped to the end - "Twenty five hundred pages?"
"Yes," Lily said stiffly.
"About a village of tiny blue gnomes."
"Yes."
"That are attacked by a dark wizard and his insane cat on frequent occasions?"
"Yes."
James gave a mock sigh. "Never though you had it in you, Evans," he said. Lily said nothing.
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(5/1/04 9:30 pm) Reply
Re: Rrrrip....
"Right," Lily said caustically, gathering a load of books into her arms and standing up. At the sight of the penitent expression on Potter's face, she stopped. "Okay," she said emotionlessly. "Let's go."
Re: Rrrrip....
"Sooo..." James began, after he and Lily had gone a few yards in silence (which was rather stony on her part) "why'd'ya have all these Transfig books? Wouldn't most of the stuff in them be in the textbook?"
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James grinned, "Dog ate your homework then?" Lily shot him a warning look. "Just kidding, just kidding...So Petunia's your sister, right? Do you two get along?"
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Re: Rrrrip....
"So neither of you are dead yet, and that's really saying something, right?" James looked at Lily wryly. "I've always wondered what it would be like to have a sibling...I've thought I'd like a little sister." Lily glanced at him, but James didn't notice and continued. "Of course, I've got all my mates - Sirius and Remus and Peter - and they're like brothers to me, especially Sirius. We've known each other since forever, practically. And Remus and Peter are good blokes. But you could take care of a sister, spoil her and the like. I dunno," James shrugged, "it just seems like it would be nice to have someone to look out for, someone to look up to you. I guess it would kinda keep me in line," James laughed a little, "I guess you thinking 'well, he certainly needs it,'" he looked at her with another grin, though ruefully wishing he could rumple his hair again.
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(6/1/04 7:44 pm) Reply
Re: Rrrrip....
OOC: *explodes in giggles* how can he rumple his hair if he's carrying half her books???
IC:
Lily suppressed a smile. This was Potter she was walking with, and she wasn't about to let his boyish charisma get to her. Sure, it worked on every other girl in Hogwarts, but she knew what he was really like...
Luckily, she was spared making any kind of answer by their arrival at the Ravenclaw common room. "Efflewort," she said loudly, and the portrait guarding the entrance slid neatly to the side.
"You can come in, since I don't see another way," Lily told Potter, adding sternly - "But don't make me regret letting you bend the rules."
one other thing........
It says on page 23 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (I looked it up, just in case I was wrong...) that Petunia Hates Animals. So why would she have a dog? Not that it matters that much.............
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(20/1/04 7:54 am) Reply
Re: one other thing........
Oh, that was my Really Lame Excuse Because I Couldn't Think Of Another One. I know it's completely uncharacteristic of her.
See, it was this way. Petunia's doting parents gave her a dog for Christmas one year as a way to teach her to learn responsibility. Instead, it turned out to be the meanest dog on the block with a knack for sticking its head through fences, so Petunia taught it to speak so that it could be her prime gossip-spy.
one other thing........
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