1975 (Marauders Era)

James Potter smiled as he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and thought proudly to himself, Well Potter, you've finally finished your magnificent masterpiece! Nice choice of words too. Lily would definitely be impressed. Well, if this book was not a secret... well too bad.

He thought to himself again, Oh, my dear Lily Evans will be mine one day. Just one day, she will come running up to me, willingly. Happily, he waved his wand and all the scattered pages that he had written on flew into the air and bound themselves into a book with a plain red cover.

"Hmmm, too plain. Time to spice it up a little. Fun time!"

He tapped the red cover of the book with the tip of his wand and golden, fancy cursive words which spelled 'THE MARAUDERS' HANDBOOK' appeared. He grinned and placed a charm on the book which would ensure that only those who knew the password 'I Solemnly Swear I am up to no Good' could read it and made it fire proof, water proof, and dust proof. James was definitely going through all this wand trouble just to impress.

He held the book near the candle to inspect it. Deciding to test out the book's durability, he tried to burn the book by placing it above the flame of the candle. Nothing happened except a random cry from his owl.

"Aguamenti."

Water spouted from the tip of his wand and splashed on his new book. The book remained nice and dry.

Pleased with his work, he gave a final wave of his wand and gave the book it's finishing touch. He decorated the book with the crest of Gryffindor and fancy, elegant golden vines crept over the book cover.

Jame was proud of himself, "I never knew I could do something like this. WOW. Even Lily would be impressed. I mean, who wouldn't be? Oh, maybe except McGonagall. She's a party pooper, no sense of humor. Like totally none at all."

He glanced proudly at the completed book in his hands. Now, for the grand revealing of his masterpiece to the rest of the Marauders gang! He rushed off to announce his magnificant masterpiece to Sirius first. Then, the whole world would know of the Marauders!


2015 (Next Generation)

James Sirius Potter glanced sleepily at the calender on the small table next to his bed. June 25. June 25, there was something significant about this date. Something, something. His brain was working hard to overcome the sleepy haze he was in and tried to process the information. Hmmm, June 25, 25, June, 25, June.

Suddenly, someone barged into the room.

"James! Wake up!"

James turned in his bed, "Mmmhhmm, wakey." He yawned, and muttered again,"After 5, no 10 minutes."

The person sighed impatiently, "Come on, wake up. Have you forgotten today is your birthday? Percy, Chris and your cousins are threatening to eat your cake if you don't quickly come downstairs."

James sighed and sat up, "Old misers, having to wake someone up so early in the morning. Oh, what day is today?"

Sighing, Esther replyed," It's June 25 which means it's your birthday and that your dad and mum just sent you something soft and squishy by owl."

James shot out of his bed and into the bathroom. After a minute, he bolted down the stairs with Esther and was greeted by a whole gang of friends. When James wasn't looking, Esther crept behind him and whispered to one of James' closest friends, Perseus Black (a.k.a. Percy, Perce) "Hey Perce. You were right, he was desperate for the invisibility cloak that his father promised to give him on his 12th birthday. If only James was a little dumber and had worse memory, we could use the same trick on him everyday."

Percy grinned, "Of course I am right. Heck, I am one of his closest friend. And probably smartest too."

Esther sighed, " You and James. When having your ego combined, I'd say is more inflated than a balloon 603 inches in height and 546 inches in width. Terrible."

Percy shrugged, "Compliment accepted."

Playfully, Esther whacked him, "Insane donkey."

" I thank you for your encouragement. Albert Einstein said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results'

Typical cheeky, obnoxious, irritating, fun, talk back, good ol' Percy. Esther resisted the great need to slap him.


So, how was it? Boring? Fine? Really Bad? Good? Do tell me:)

Oh, and constructive criticism is encouraged. Please inform me if there is any grammatical/spelling/etc errors.

I definitely need improvement.

Review please!

~Estherdabookworm