First Kiss Chapter one. Trying to work up the nerve!

Chapter 52

Chapter 52

The last four teams were now competing and the winner of the last four would win the new cup with their teams name and their own names on the cup.

James picked Lily up onto his back and piggie back rode her to the field with Sirius and Lupin holding onto her hands, with Peter running in front of them.

Dumbledore stood in front of the teams.

“We have from Gryffindor team Marauders, with Lily Evans, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.

Also from Gryffindor we have team Lion, Mary MacDonald, Stephen Herd, Tara Gamble, Andy Cranner and Billy Epson.”

Dumbledore went onto announce the winning teams, the one from Slytherin and from Ravenclaw.

People cheered as the contestants all lined up at their separate tables.

“Wow these are not going to be easy.” Lily was looking over the new list of transformations.

The boys looked at it after her.

“Yeah but we can do it easily.” Sirius said with confidence ignoring the little whimper from Peter.

The five set to the task and was soon transfiguring a list of items, squirrels into horses, birds into snakes, chairs into dogs and changing the sex of other things along with the transformation. They were quite pleased when they had finished the list and were able to move on to charming things.

Now they had to charm flowers into growing large and of different colors, they had to charm things to play leapfrog and to play hopscotch. Lily laughed when the boys were all confused by this game.

“You guys don’t know what hopscotch is?” Lily had asked incredulous.

“Nope but it sounds kinda pansy like.” Sirius said in their defense.

“I guess I can understand that since it is a game girl’s play and I don’t even know if it’s one they play here in the magical world.” Lily laughed amused by them. She used her wand to make a hopscotch boxes on the ground and explain to the boys what they had to do.

It was with great laughter the boys helped her move their charmed items along the hopscotch and were now ready to work on their potion.

Lily had taken a look at the other teams; the Ravenclaw teams seemed stumped and were casting weary looks over at their team to see what they were doing for this hopscotch game. The other Gryffindor team was doing fine with it since they had a Muggle born on their team too. Lily was pleased to see Snape was able to help his teams since he had as a boy played the game with her.

Snape caught her looking at him and gave a small wink as he went back to helping his team play. Lily could tell the other team members thought this a big waste.

The potion was a fairly simply one that would bring the team huge success in the competition if done right. The five set to work, this time they had to ground up butterfly wings with ground up unicorn tail hair and add a generous amount of Mermaid tears. Very rare, and extremely hard to come by, They worked together since this would only bring success if you worked together on it, if one person didn’t do their share the potion would not work. After a while they were soon, stirring it around the cauldron it had now become silvery green with a hint of honeysuckle.

“It looks great huh.” Lily was watching it happily. She knew it was perfect, since she excelled at potions.

“Feels like success to me.” James told her placing an arm around her waist. Lily smiled at him. Their task being done they stood back to wait for the teachers to come examine their work.

Lily looked over at the other teams, the other Gryffindor team was doing fine but their potion was not a slivery green it looked more like orange. The Ravenclaw team was still trying desperately to get a silvery color out of their; own potion. Right now it was blackish with a strong scent of tar.

Lily was surprised the Slytherin team was not yet done and that there own potion was looking as though none of them could agree on any of it.

Lily felt bad for Severus, she knew if they had listen to him and worked together they’d have a great potion right now. Instead it looked like slug slime and smelled as bad as a dung pile.

The teachers had walked through and were looking critically at their work before going into a huddle to talk. After what felt like a year the teachers all stood aside as Dumbledore begun to talk.

“The winner for the first half of the competition is team Marauders; they had done an excellent job.”

The students in the crowd roared their approval. James, Lily, Sirius, Remus and Peter all leaped up and down shouting with happiness, the boys all raining kisses on to Lily.

They were quite happy to receive a large silver cup with their names magically appearing on the cup as they all took it in hand.

“PARTY TIME!” Sirius yelled to his house. They made their way with the crowd to the Gryffindor common room.

“Tomorrow morning at breakfast we’ll announce the next set of competitors.” Dumbledore said amid cheering and yelling.

Lily turned as a hand grabbed her arm. Snape looked around apprehensively as though making sure no one he knew saw him.

“What Sev?” Lily asked gently.

“Just wanted to say congratulations, I knew you’d do it.” Snape kisses her quickly on the lips and then ran off toward the school.

Lily turned to see James frowning at her.

“That guy, when is, he going to learn, I’m not giving you up.” James pulled her close to him his arm around her waist protectively.

“I love you Prongs.” Lily said softly, this put James in a better mood.