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Abracadabra or Avada Kedavra? – I decided to make it a Maruaders era fic

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Twirling a strand of red hair in between her fingers, Lily dutifully took as many notes as she could as Professor Flitwick droned on, his squeaky voice echoing throughout the room.

But he wasn't quite loud enough to drown out the sound of Dumb and Dumber muttering something behind her.

"…. Red paint… dungeons…. Snivellus…."

Her grip on her quill tightened as she picked up the occasional word from them. It wasn't hard to put the pieces together.

Children, all four of them acted like bloody children!

No, she needed to be fair… Remus was often the voice of reason in that group, and Peter just went along with them… but Potter and Black were the worst.

The absolute worst.

Desperately, she tried to turn her attention away from them and focus on what the Professor was lecturing about… which was probably a good thing as he turned his attention to her.

"Now, Professor Dumbledore is very interested in us getting to know how the Muggles see magic and spells, so I was wondering Miss Evans, may we ask a few questions about your life before Hogwarts?"

As a relatively well-known Muggle-born, Lily wasn't surprised that the question had been directed at her. Ignoring how the majority of the Slytherins mumbled something under their breaths, she straightened up and tried answer the question as coherently as she could.

"Well, magic is really only used in our stories Professor, and it's nothing like what's taught."

"Are there incantations though?"

She nodded, "Oh yeah, but they're a little bit silly, things like Bibbidy, bobbidy boo, alakazam, open sesame, abracadabra and- "

She stopped suddenly, gasping as the sound of chairs scraping backwards echoed throughout the room. When she glanced around, she noticed that a good half of the class had suddenly ducked down underneath their desks… even Professor Flitwick looked a little bit stunned.

A tense silence filled the room, before Sirius finally summoned up enough courage and popped his head over the top of his desk, a frown on his face.

"Merlin's Beard Evans!" he exclaimed, his face slightly pale, "Nearly give us a heart attack why don't you?"

"Yeah!" Potter agreed, "I know you don't like us, but to try and kill us?!"

Lily frowned in confusion… and then she heard something laughing.

Clutching at his mid-section, Remus was laughing, eyes squeezed shut in his mirth and a wide grin on his face. "She-she-she- " he had to take a deep breath to try and calm down, "… she didn't say the Killing curse!"

Black and Potter frowned, "What are you talking about?"

"She didn't say the Killing Curse. She said Ab-ra-ca-dab-ra…." Remus still looked like he was going to wet himself in laughter, "…. It's a made-up spell in Muggle stories, it d-d-doesn't do anything!"

The other students who had been exposes to the muggle world, started to laugh as well…. It was probably the only time they could get one over on the Purebloods.

"Oh…." Black was obviously flushing at the slight humiliation, whereas Potter looked a little bit angry, "…. Well, we knew that, didn't we James?"

The anger vanished, and James shrugged as though he didn't even care, "Yeah, course we did. It bought us a little bit of time away from the lesson didn't it?"

It was the worst lying ever, but Lily let it go… for the time being.

The lesson continued on as usual (although Professor Flitwick did look a little shaken), and before Lily knew it, it was time to head to her Potions class.

Ignoring how Potter tried to get her attention, she practically ran to class, taking her usual seat next to Severus…. And then settling down for the long wait that would pass before Slughorn would make an appearance.

"Severus…" she whispered, mindful of the Marauders presence not too far behind them, "… want to hear about how I made Potter and Black squeal like little girls?"

Severus's smile was all the answer she needed.