born to die → jily

Sixteen (fifth year)

{lily}

"If you could leave your bags on the left side of the hall, and enter in silence we would be grateful" the examiner said. I had never seen him before, and I probably wouldn't see him again after the exams were over.

We all walked Into the hall, dropping our bags off, like the man had said, to the lady hand side of the hall. We walked along the back of the hall and started to fill up the room's tables starting from the top right hand corner. I was so nervous, so I found myself concentrating on the back of James' robe.

I sat down at my place, looking down at the prepared parchment exam paper, an anti cheat quill, some black ink and a ruler. I gulped.

The man went to the from of the hall, addressing the whole of the fifth year. "I expect a cheat free, silent exam. I want no communication and no messing around. You have exactly on hour am thirty minutes to complete this examination. This examination is worth sixty marks, so answer carefully, no if you could please write in the labeled, designated boxes then we will begin"

I look down and pick up my quill. The first box says: forename. I write Lily. The next one says: Surname. Evans, I write. The next box says tick if you are aware of this statement. The statement said: I am taking a transfiguration exam. I ticked the box. Then the other things on the paper were for 'examiner use only' apparently, so I didn't write on them.

"You have one hour and thirty minutes starting from now" the man said.

I dived towards the paper, opening the first page.

It read: tick the boxes if the following statements about werewolves are true.

Werewolves are all bad people. ⬜

Werewolves are unaware of their actions on a full ☑
moon

You can be convicted and sent to Azkaban for
being a werewolf ◽

There is no cure for
being a werewolf ☑

There are symptoms of
being a werewolf. ☑

So far. So good. I quickly moved on.

Write out four symptoms of being a werewolf.

1) a werewolf can experience a range of emotions before and after transformation.

2) a werewolf can be found skipping days of a month.

3) sometimes, werewolves can loose control and become extremely angry.

4) secretive.

One hour and a half later.

"Could you please place down your quills and leave the hall in an orderly fashion row by row" the male examiner said.

Finally the exam as over. It was easier than I thought it would be. Though in parts, it was hard to phrase the more in depth answers. But I think I did well.

"Hey, lily" Alice said to me when we got out of the hall, "how do you think it went?"

"Yeah, it went well for me, but I found it really hard" I wanted to be modest and not make it out to be like I did amazing.

I didn't want To say that I did great and then get a T (Troll) on my exam.

"Hey, lily!" James shouted, pushing past a few hufflepuffs, he shoved past Snape as well. I frowned but I didn't tell James to say sorry. "You okay?" he asked me.

"Yeah. I'm fine, how do you think it went?" I glanced over James shoulder, having to straighten my back slightly because James was so tall. I saw a rather angry looking Severus staring back at me and James.

"What?" James said, looking confused.

"The exams, James. How do you think your first OWL exam went?" I shook my head. What else would I be taking about?

"Oh. That. Yeah, it was easy. I'm going to pass it with flying colours, lily" he arrogantly told me.

"How modest you are, James" I said sarcastically, playfully nudging his arm.

He raised his eyebrows at me, pushing me at the other side of the corridor making me bang into a ravenclaw.

"Sorry" I muttered to the ravenclaw boy. He nodded his head and continued walking. "James!" I shouted, feeling slightly embarrassed. I stalked up to James and shoved him with all my strength. I barely moved him halfway across the hall way.

He pushed me again, making me bump into someone I really didn't want to bump into.

Severus.

"I'm really sorry Severus, I didn't mean to" I said, having to suppress a huge smile and a giggle.

"Yes. I know. It was your little boy friend, James" he said coldly.

I stepped in front of Snape, "I said I was sorry" I look into his eyes, "and he's not my boyfriend" though I couldn't help but notice how much I wished that James was my boyfriend.

Severus looked at me, pushing past me and deliberately banging his shoulder into mine.

I stared after him, feeling confuse as to why he was so angry and cold with me. I felt James hands come on to my shoulder, "come on, don't worry about him" he said softly.

But I did worry about Severus. I wanted I be his friend. I wanted to be as close I him as I was when we were both at the innocent ages of eight.

But I can't always get what i want, that was always clear to me at a young age.

James looked at me, "oh yeah. I forgot to say," he dug his hands out into his robes, "I got the tickets you wanted for the Quidditch match tomorrow, I got four"

"Why did you get four?" There was only three of us: me, Alice and Marlene.

"Just because I don't like Snape, doesn't mean that should get in the way of your friendship with him. I didn't know if you'd want to bring him along or not"

"I really don't think he'd want to come anyway. Though thanks for the thought" I said kindly.

"Okay, well I can go and give that one ticket back to the ticket place, and then someone else can have it" he smiled and walked away.

the spare ticket that Severus wouldn't want in his hand.