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Post by Emmeline Vance on Jun 16, 2008 22:41:10 GMT -5
Emmeline faltered a little at his change in tone. It was subtle, but there. She cleared her throat again and studied his potion. "Well, judging by the thickness of your potion," she said, motioning towards his ladle, "I'd say you added about five extra roots. So add just six earth worm hearts and it should thin out. And if it doesn't......well we're all screwed." She smiled and turned to her own potion.
With her back towards Sirius, she dropped her smile and smacked her forehead. She dragged her hand down her face. She hated being smart sometimes. She sounded like a know it all. She sighed and cleaned her sight. Her potion was done and waiting to be inspected.
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Post by Sirius Black on Jun 16, 2008 22:57:14 GMT -5
Sirius sighed. Why was everything so complicated? Emme was cute and he wanted to be friendlier to her, but that had already gotten him in trouble once. He couldn't let it keep happening; not if he didn't want Remus to kill him. He turned his mind back to the task at hand. He took the tube of earthworm hearts and began to add them one at a time. But it turned out that he only had 4 left. He looked back over at her. "I don't have enough," he said, looking sheepish. "I don't suppose you've got any left over, do you?"
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Post by Emmeline Vance on Jun 16, 2008 23:02:25 GMT -5
Emmeline smiled and nodded. She handed him her tube of earth worm hearts. She bought like four. They weren't that expensive. Do you know how many earth worms there were in this world?
She waited patiently for him to finish. She was truly curious to see the outcome. Hopefully, what she had been taught was right.
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Post by Sirius Black on Jun 16, 2008 23:07:49 GMT -5
Sirius smiled at her again as he took the tube from her. "Thanks. Really. One of these days, I swear I'm gonna blow the place up with one of my potions." He counted out two more earthworm hearts and added them to his potion. After a minute, it began to thin out. he sighed with relief. "Thanks. I think it's better now. Probably still not right, but at least it's not hardening into a solid lump anymore."
He handed the rest of the tub back to her, then held out his hand. "Friends?"
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Post by Emmeline Vance on Jun 16, 2008 23:15:12 GMT -5
Emmeline seriously wondered who could resist his charm. But he was obviously controlling himself and so would she. She smiled and grabbed his hand. "Of course."
His potion was defiantly turning greener and thinning out. It probably wouldn't get him top marks for the day, but the professor would be very impressed. She reached over a stirred it with her ladle. Yes, defiantly the right thickness.
She looked at him. "Sirius. Don't tell the professor I helped you. Okay?" She smiled and continued to watch his potion.
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Post by Sirius Black on Jun 17, 2008 22:07:17 GMT -5
Sirius nodded quickly. "Oh, yeah, don't worry about it. I won't say a thing. I usually avoid talking to Slughorn as much as possible. He doesn't like me, you see. I mean, just because I pull that chair prank on him all the time... doesn't he have a sense of humor?" He was flirting again.... he seriously needed to stop. Kris was only a few seats away, and she was going to kill him if he kept this up.
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Post by Lily Evans on Jun 17, 2008 22:10:21 GMT -5
Lily had been watching the whole exchange, having already finished her potion. It really was quite nauseating how Sirius Black could just turn on the charm, flash a cute smile, and the girls would do just about anything for him. When she couldn't take any more, she leaned over to the girl. "I wouldn't have helped him if I were you. He was the one not even trying to do the potion right in the first place... served him right if the whole dungeon blew up!"
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Post by Emmeline Vance on Jun 18, 2008 10:47:29 GMT -5
Emmeline laughed at Sirius. "Well, the professor shouldn't fall for it so much." Emmeline remembered the prank. Every year he would do it. And every year the teacher would fall for it.
Emmeline looked at the girl who spoke to her. She was beautiful. Emmeline wanted her hair. She gave her a small smile. She knew what the girl was saying was true. "I know. But I didn't want to blow up with it. I'm Emmeline by the way. Call me Emme, though." She was meeting quite a few new people.
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Post by Sirius Black on Jun 19, 2008 22:53:28 GMT -5
Sirius rolled his eyes as he saw Lily talking to Emme. He knew Lily didn't care for him, but he didn't want Emme to think badly of him. Yeah, he was a prankster and a flirt, but he wasnt a bad guy. "Whatever she says about me, don't listen to her. I swear I'm not the heir of Slytherin or the Spawn of Voldemort, or anything else she might say about me." He flashed her a bright grin.
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Post by Lily Evans on Jun 19, 2008 23:02:34 GMT -5
Lily rolled her eyes. "Don't let him fool you," she warned Emme. "He may seem charming, but he's trouble. Both him and his friend James Potter." She cast a sideways glance over in James's direction, and instantly regretted it. She needed to stop looking at him or he would think she actually liked him.
"Anyway, I'm Lily Evans," she said, quickly changing the subject. "Nice to meet you, Emme. You did pretty well on that potion... If I hadn't practiced it over the summer, I don't know if I would have done as well. I'm not even sure I would have known how to fix his potion."
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Post by Emmeline Vance on Jun 20, 2008 10:09:57 GMT -5
Emmeline rolled her eyes and smiled at Sirius. Lily looked like a smart girl. Emmeline knew she should listen to her. But Sirius was just a flirt and he didn't mean any harm.....right?
Emmeline smiled. "Yeah, my aunt works for the ministry. She helps make the potions the aurors use on missions. At least, that's what she says. But, she pounded me all summer about this potion. It got so aggravating, I finally just memorized it. Which one is James Potter?"
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Post by Lily Evans on Jun 22, 2008 0:03:16 GMT -5
Lily smiled. "Oh, that sounds really nice. I mean, not that she was pushing you, but just that you had someone to actually help you study and stuff. Being muggle-born, I really don't have anyone that can help me or talk to my about my schoolwork when I'm home. My dad really wishes he could help me, but it's all completely foreign to him. It must be nice to have people who understand what you're studying."
She gave her potion one last check and decided that it was passable, so she turned off the heat and set it aside to wait for Professor Slughorn's review. As Emme asked about James Potter, Lily frowned, wishing she'd never brought up the subject. "He's the one over there on the other side of Sirius," she said. "The one with the black messy hair." She rolled her eyes. "He's really obnoxious."
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Post by James Potter on Jun 24, 2008 15:51:00 GMT -5
James wasn't going to answer to the girl asking who he was. He didn't mean it in a rude way, he was just trying to fix his potion, which Lily obviously made him screw up. What was with her? She knew exactly how to press his buttons and it was annoying. James groaned as he realized that he wasn't going to be able to fix his potion and he caught on to what Lily was talking about.
"I am not obnoxious," James countered turning to Lily with his face frustrated. He was frustrated with two things: Lily, and his potion. "You just think I am Evans." He turned back to his cauldron and had the urge to just kick it and walk out, but he wasn't about to do that. "Besides," he began again, "You are the one that can be obnoxious sometimes."
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Post by Lily Evans on Jun 24, 2008 16:01:25 GMT -5
Lily's mouth dropped open. "I'm obnoxious?" she repeated. "How do you figure that, Mr. Potter? I think you must have the wrong word in mind, because I am not obnoxious. I'm not the one who plays pranks on people and makes fun of people, now, am I?" She was glad she had finished her potion, or she might have messed it up. Why did he always get her so irritated, anyway?
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Post by James Potter on Jun 24, 2008 16:18:12 GMT -5
"Yes. You're obnoxious," said James, not being able to hold in his thoughts any longer. "I mean come on, I try to be nice to you, but then you just shrug me off. When I ask you to go somewhere, you always find some reason to say no. You never give me a chance Evans, no matter how hard I try! I even open up doors for you, and you never say thank you. You could have been in pranks that I've pulled before, but I've actually talked Sirius out of it! I try and try, but you always just shrug me off!" James was on the verge of yelling, but he turned back around in his seat, trying to calm himself down. "So, yes Evans. You are obnoxious sometimes, to me that is," he said without turning around.
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Post by Lily Evans on Jun 24, 2008 22:00:43 GMT -5
"Is that so?" Lily cried, forgetting her usual manners. It wasn't like her to make a scene in the middle of class, but James Potter never failed to set her off in embarassing ways. "Well, if I'm so obnoxious, then why don't you just leave me alone? I've never understood why you kept bothering me in the first place. You could probably have any girl you wanted, but why does it have to be me?"
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Post by James Potter on Jun 25, 2008 7:37:20 GMT -5
James sat quite for a moment. Why did he want Lily? She was difficult, yes, but that wasn't it completely. "Because Lily, you are you," he said turning to her. You're smart, pretty, nice, and your eyes, any guy could get lost in them. And trust me Lily, I've tried to leave you alone, but I can't. You're different from all the other girls, obviously." James knew that he turned red as a beet but he didn't care, and he didn't mean to spill what he just said either. "There, I said it! Are you happy now," he said quietly.
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Post by Lily Evans on Jun 25, 2008 13:25:44 GMT -5
Lily didn't know what to say. Her cheeks flushed bright red and she stared down at her desk. She didn't want to like James Potter. She didn't like his attitude or the way he treated people and... he was just so annoying! But after what he had said about her, she suddenly felt like she was the bad guy and not him, because she was always pushing him away. "Well.... OK, maybe I don't really know you very well or anything... Maybe you're not that bad. But you have to admit, when you and your friends get together, you make a lot of noise in the common room and it's annoying! And I don't understand why you play pranks on people or pick on people. It's mean. If you could be nice to people, and mean it, maybe you wouldn't be so bad."
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Post by James Potter on Jun 25, 2008 13:44:51 GMT -5
James looked down at his desk and the thought of just leaving class crossed his mind. Why couldn't he have just kept his mouth shut in the beginning? He should have just let Lily say whatever she wanted about him, but he couldn't do that. He wanted her to see that he wasn't as bad as she thought he was, but then again that was easier said than done.
He shut his potions book, getting ready to walk out, when she spoke again. Now he felt like he was glued to his seat as he glanced back. "We just try to have fun," came his reply. "I mean who wants to just sit around, look at each other and be quiet? Where's the fun in that? And playing pranks is fun. No one ever really gets hurt. You know, maybe you should try to do one one day. It's a big stress reliever." James quieted down as he noticed the look on Lily's face. "OK, OK. I'll try to calm down OK? I play nice and play things your way if you will be nice to me, as in you don't look at me like I'm the scum of the earth. I'm not gloating or anything, but I'm not as bad of a person as you think I am, and if it takes being nice to show that, then you know I'll do it."
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Post by Lily Evans on Jun 25, 2008 15:31:33 GMT -5
Lily thought for a minute, her cheeks still flushing bright red. She knew every eye in the room had to be watching her at that moment, and it was humiliating. If that wasn't reason enough for her to dislike James, then she didn't know what was. However, if she rejected him completely in such a public way after that impassioned speech, then she would look bad. She had no choice but to nod at him. "OK," she said. "I'll be nicer to you, if you'll be nicer to other people."
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