Jily ~ Oneshots

Through a Professor's Eyes

Hey so this is just something I wrote when I had major 'ugg I don't wanna write 'She'll Come Around' right now but I wanna write'. I hope you enjoy this I certainly loved writing it.

DISCLAIMER J.K. ROWLING OWNS EVERYTHING!!!!!!

Point Of View: Third Person (Minerva McGonagall)
Rating: PG (kissing)
Description: Six years with Lily Evans and James Potter at each other's throats and the one year they weren't.

First Year

A short little redhead with her hair in one on top, walking into class. Just watching her feet as they crept along the floor, clearly the girl was nervous. McGonagall felt sympathy for the girl but willed herself not to give into it. That would be very unprofessional especially on the first day of class, all of the first years were bound to be nervous.

The eleven-year-old girl, quietly sat in a seat with her nose in book, the class' transfiguration book. At least the girl had her priorities straight. As more of the class piled in, the professor noticed two two particularly loud boys, that recklessly rioted into her classroom if she may add. Professor McGonagall looked up at them and saw a glare on the red head's face as one of the boys stared at her. Though a quite lovesick look was on the boy's face as he stared at her.

'Interesting year' she thought.

As she began class she noticed one of the ridiculously loud boys, the one with rectangular glasses and messy black hair. Writing something on a piece of parchment quickly, while the other boy smirked at his new friend. He crumpled the parchment with a smirk of his own. The boy threw the crumpled up parchment ball at the redhead and McGonagall suddenly realized why the girl had glared at him.

The parchment flawlessly zoomed across the classroom and hit the redhead in the back of the head. The boy apparently didn't think McGonagall saw what stunt he pulled in her classroom.

Normally, McGonagall wouldn't tolerate this sort of behaviour but she wanted to get a taste of her students. A feel for how they operate, to see how the redhead would respond. The girl opened the parchment to read whatever the boy had written for her. She rolled her emerald eyes at the parchment and crumpled it up again. McGonagall wanted to cry out, tell the girl to stand up for herself. But she didn't need to.

The girl opened the parchment again and pulled out a muggle paper weight, placing it in the middle of the piece of parchment and crumpled the parchment around the paper weight so it was inside the parchment. The girl then took out some muggle duck tape out of her bag and wrapped it around the parchment so the paper weight would stay inside. McGonagall watched as the girl turned around and chucked the ball at the boys face, smacking in the nose making his glasses take a tumble to the floor.

'Smart girl' McGonagall thought and continued with her lesson.

McGonagall also noticed the wide grin on the boy's face once he put his glasses back on. It was a mischievous grin. McGonagall, about prayed to Merlin then and there when the two boys shared a look.

And that was the day that Lily Evans and James Potter's feud began. And Merlin, help her for the next seven years.

Second Year

McGonagall will admit the feud was funny in the beginning when it was harmless and outside of her classroom. Though after a week or so, it escalated at an intense pace, so fast that the entire school was invested in what was going to happen next, even seventh years and teachers. Though together Lily Evans and James Potter were a mess because they couldn't put aside their differences. Individually they were endearing in their own way.

James Potter was a curious boy with an addiction to trouble but, his heart was in it a hundred percent and was determined and loyal to his friends.