(JILY) MARAUDERS AND VALKYRIES : THE FALL OF SERPENT

20. Choices

"Yes, you are arrogant ." 

"No, I am not."

"Yes you are."

"No, Marls defend me." 

"Sorry James but Lily is right."

"Moony?"

"She is right, Prongs"

"Moony you are not my friend, if Padfoot was here he would have defended me. Wormtail?"

"Keep me out of it, but I guess she is right."

"Anyways if you have confidence and talent then you are not arrogant, so that's settled I am not arrogant."

 "There's that arrogance"snorted Lily.

"Hey that's not corr................."

"WILL TWO OF YOU QUIT IT. I AM TRYING TO MEMORIZE ALL THE PLANTS NAME AND THEIR USES." shouted Mary. That shut their mouths.

"Sorry Mary" said Lily and James together.

"Whatever, now don't disturb me or you will have to face the wrath of my Bat-Bogey Hex" said Mary and then buried her face in her notes again.

The O.W.Ls were just 20 days away and the panic among the 5th years was at its peak. The Marauders have all decided to take break from pranks and focus on studying, but only after Lily was irritated with them and has hexed the four of them with Leek jinx and they had to spent three hours in the hospital wing before the leeks were removed by Poppy. 

"I thought you two were studying potions." pointed out Marls to James and Lily.

"Yeah we were." both of them sighed.

"Then why did you both start fighting?" asked Marlene. Both James and Lily have to focus hard to remember what started their fight.

"Um... we  were talking about potion then charms and then we were talking about care of magical creatures," mumbled James.

"Yes and that's where our row started on what is the correct diet for unicorns." concluded Lily.

"I heard you both and I guess both the diets were correct. Its not like you can just have to follow one diet." pointed out Peter which shocked everyone.

"Hey, I may not be good at other subjects but Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology and Astronomy are my strong subjects at this time."protested Peter.

"We know mate, but its just you are not usually that confident when you talk about anything study related." said Remus.

All of them again began studying and were soon joined by Sirius who has just finished his detention.  

Lily was purposely avoiding Snape since the day Marlene was attacked, she has stopped talking to him in Potions and was speaking if only required, she was avoiding his every word during potions class, and she couldn't change her seat as she was partnered with him and Slughorn usually partner up the students sitting together on the first day for the rest of the year.

 Snape was trying hard to have a conversation with Lily, but she was determined to ignore him. Marlene has suggested on talking and finalizing things while Mary has advised that if she ignores him he might understand and stop talking to her. Lily liked Mary's idea as this was an easy one.

But Snape seemed determined too, he was continuously finding excuses to talk to her during potions. He was even trying to talk to her after potions too but Lily noticed that as soon as Snape noticed Mulciber, Avery, or his other Slytherin friend he stopped and left Lily. Before she used to get hurt by this behavior as though he was ashamed of her but afterward she get used to it and now she was thankful that he himself used to leave her as it made it easier for her to avoid him.