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Chapter 10 Lily's New Pet

Chapter 10. Lily’s new pet.

It was only the third week into September. Lily felt as though the month had purposely slowed down just to irk her. Lily was sitting in Transfiguration today with Snape. The two were to work on transfiguring a Small bird into a saltshaker. They would be graded on style, looks and hole size. Lily was having problems with it, since she kept thinking back over the last summer.

“Sev, I can’t do this! I don’t want to kill this bird!” Lily whispered to him.

Severus chuckled at her causing her to glare at him.

“What, you remember what happen!” she hissed not wanting to say the words out loud.

Snape smiled a bit more gently keeping his laughter inside. Snape placed a large callous hand comfortingly on Lily’s small soft hand.

“I do Remember Li. I’m sorry for laughing about it. If you’re so worried just ask Professor McGonagall if you can change it back after it’s been graded.”

Snape knew that killing the bird had hurt her desperately and now she loathed the idea of hurting any living creature.

Lily looked very pleased with such an easy solution to her problem.

“Thanks Sev, I can always count on you!”

James sat with his three friends two rows behind Lily and Severus. James was grumbling to Lupin who was seated next to him with Sirius and Peter in the two seats by theirs. Sirius was trying to help Peter with his transfiguration.

“No Peter, not like that! I keep telling you, hold your wand like this! Are you even listening to me?” Sirius was getting frustrated with Peter. All three boys would take turns helping Peter in the different classes. It was not something they ever looked forward to doing.

“Why is Lily, friends with that greasy git?” James asked for what seemed to Lupin a thousandth time in this class alone.

Lupin had just transfigured his small blue bird into a very pretty blue saltshaker with a light feather design and perfectly shaped holes.

James who was to busy watching Lily changing her own green bird into a cute round green shaker with hole that was a tad big for a salt shaker.

Lupin looked at them talking and Lily comparing her shaker to Severus’s shaker. Snape had a red bird with black wings; his shaker was black with a red stripe going around its base, with holes just the right size. Lupin was impressed despite him self.

Lupin smiled softly he had not told James that he had seen them snogging after the dance by the entrance to the common room and was not willing to be the one to cause James to change Snape into a slimy slug and step on him.

James transfigured his own yellow bird into a shaker with yellow splotches all over it and the holes were too small.

“James stop worrying about it and concentrate on your work, your shaker is squawking at you.” Lupin chuckled as the shaker started to shake on its own as though trying to take flight.

James looked down horrified at his mistake; he had never done so badly in class before.

“It’s that stupid Snape’s fault I messed up!” James growled.

“Yes right, we can see him forcing you to do it wrong!” Lupin said drolly. James glared as the other two laughed.

James was glad the class had finally ended. He had manage to get his shaker to stop chirping and trying to take flight, but was sure he would be marked down for having to take longer then usual