The Better Chaser; James Potter

Chapter 9- First Day II

Lily and I entered class still giggling before plopping down on a table together and chatting casually as the rest of the class filed in. As Severus walked and saw me chatting with Lily he glared in our direction. I just simply rolled my eyes at him and focused my attention to Lily again. My attention was then interrupted by Sirius slamming the door open and grinning, making a "grand entrance", next to him stood Potter beaming as well, loving the attention, Peter also grinned goofily, while Remus just leaned against the doorframe, hands in his pockets, shaking his head but still smiling.

"I swear, you bloody Gryffindors are going to be the death of me," I joked to Lily who laughed and agreed,

"They really do damage our image don't they," she joked back, as we both giggled.

We waved Remus over and he sat at the table next to us, Peter sitting beside him, while unfortunately, Potter and Sirius sat behind us. Just as they sat down, Professor McGonagall started the lesson, we began by revising switching spells that we performed last year before moving on to vanishing spells. Whilst I was in the middle of performing a vanishing spell on the snail in front of me I felt a strong tug at my hair,

"Ow! what the f-" I said before I realized the whole class was staring at me, I looked apologetically at Professor McGonagall, heat rising to my cheeks as she sighed disapprovingly, but waved her hand for me to carry on. Once she turned the other way I spun around quickly glaring at Potter behind me,

"What the fuck Potter," I whispered

He lifted his hand and showed me some grass as if it meant something,

"Why are you showing me grass," I asked confused,

"You had grass in your hair, I was just helping you out," he smirked, stressing the "help", referring to my lovely speech last night.

I could actually feel my blood begin to boil, this nerve this fucking boy has, I was about to give him a piece of my own mind before Lily cleared her throat and nudged me, in a warning tone. McGonagall was turning our way. I took in a long shaky breath trying to calm myself before attempting the vanishing spell again. Ignoring all my murderous thoughts,

for now

The class ended shortly after and Lily Remus and I started walking to Care of Magical Creatures together. Another unfortunate event was that the rest of the marauders took this subject as well, and thought it was a good idea to walk with us. I completely ignored them all as we headed towards the Care of Magical Creatures classroom. On the way we descended some stairs and I couldn't help myself, before I knew it I had performed the leg-locker curse on Potter, he stumbled and fell down the rest of the stairs. I grinned giddily before skipping down the stairs and passing him,

as I passed him I retorted, "Like I said, I don't need help, never will," I winked smirking down at him on the ground, "Looks like you could use some though," I added before walking away and leaving him on the ground. Lily tutted disapprovingly, Sirius grinned in amusement, whilst Peter helped him up and Remus started to perform the counter-curse.

"What," I told Lily, shrugging innocently, "he's done so much worse to me, besides Remus will fix him right up, I really didn't do anything," I gestured to Potter already starting to use his legs properly again.

She rolled her eyes at me, but had a small smile on her face. Lily knew I was right, besides that boy deserves to be taken down a peg or two. She then locked her arms with mine before dragging me into the classroom before Potter could catch up. We entered the classroom and greeted the professor before we sat down. The door then slammed open revealing a furious Potter. Again I couldn't help myself,