Carlotta

James sighed again. “I’ll apologize if you do?” But that he’d already given up most of his anger over the matter was obvious.

“You know I never apologize,” Carlotta teased. “What if I say… instead, that I won’t give you any trouble if Remus has to go home again. Deal?”

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Lily

“I’ll apologize if you do,” she said.

James stopped abruptly, and one of the pumpkins he had been fixing into place came crashing down. It smashed across the stone floor, sending slimy orange debris in all directions, but James didn’t pay it much attention.

“What?”

Lily repeated herself resignedly.

“Really?”

The Head Girl rolled her eyes. “I don’t know why you’re always surprised by my apologies.”