(JILY) MARAUDERS AND VALKYRIES : THE FALL OF SERPENT

29. Potions Partner

When James entered the potions class in the morning he sat in his usual place, the last seat, the only problem being that Peter, his last year partner was no longer taking the subject and Sirius has stopped outside great hall to meet a 5th year Hufflepuff girl and has took off with her to one of the empty rooms saying he would join him later.

The class was about to start in 10 minutes, he saw Marlene sitting and talking with Emmeline Vance, a Hufflepuff and saw others slowly entering the class one by one, a Ravenclaw girl winked at him from her sit, James groaned and took out his potions book and buried his head in it. He saw the content page and read all the potions and ingredients chapters until his eyes stopped on a chapter named 'Sleekeazy's Hair Potion (intro)'.   James smiled and opened the chapter and started reading about it.

Someone sat beside him, but he didn't pay any attention to the person as it surely was not Sirius and he was enjoying reading this chapter. The person moved closer to him as though trying to see what he is reading, he ignored the person and after finishing the chapter he put the open  book on table and rested his head on it and closed his eyes and began singing "Here comes the sun by The Beatles" in as low voice as possible, he noticed the person sitting next to him humming and tapping the shoes along the rhythm, James wanted to look at the person but he was determined to finish the song, so he continued singing, he looked up at the person next to him and was both surprised and delighted.

"Should have known that it was you," grinned James and Lily smiled.

"So, reading 'Sleekeazy's Hair Potion' for your hairs, I s'pose? Though I think here it's just intro and potion is hard to brew, so I will suggest you to buy it instead," Lily said. 

"There's a lot of bottles at back at home, but I don't use it as it doesn't affect my hair," said James.

"It works on my hair. 'Two drops tames even the most bothersome barnet' You should complain to the inventor about this exception, he needs to change the slogan, though it will break his heart to know this," said Lily and James looked at her curiously.

"Do you even know who the inventor is?" asked James 

"I dunno, it was invented back in the 40s, some old bloke I guess." said Lily as a matter of factly.

"And you have met him, Lily" said James now grinning widely.

"No, I haven't.As, I am sure it's not Slughorn and I dunno other teachers are into potions, I dunno."   

"Fleamont Potter, my father you met him this year on the platform, he invented it."

"WHAT?" Lily shouted and everyone looked at them, Lily ignored them and started hitting James on his hand, "Why you didn't told me?" she shouted again hitting him before speaking in normal low voice "Why didn't you tell me about it before? Oh I should have thanked him and congratulated him for that. I.... the potion is so famous, and I didn't know about it. "  

Everyone though shocked that Lily sat with James, was used to banters like this between them.

"I didn't know that you didn't know about it," James tried to suppress his laughter. 

"Oh yes, sorry but you always show-off such things. Wait why arent you in slug club then?" Lily asked but at the same time a panting Slughorn entered the room.

"Sorry I am late, as my plans for the first class changed, the potions I had planned to show today arent available at the moment due to some errors over summer, but I will show them to you all soon," said Slughorn "Now, as not much time left your partner will be the student next to you."