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AN: Just felt like doing a proper usual James/Lily fic. With a partially insane Sirius.
Mary
"Bye Mary!" Mary's older brother called. He was dropping Mary off for her seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Bye Johnny!" Mary replied, tightly hugging her brother.
"Seriously. Stop calling me that. My name is John."
Mary sighed, and said, "Aw man… You take the fun out of everything!"
"That's my job, Mary."
Mary waved to her brother, as he left the station. She loved her older brother. He was hilariously funny, and a loving older brother. Although, he was a bit unique. She knew for a fact that her brother would prefer wearing a suit and tie to his school than day clothes, and he would, if it weren't for the fact they'd get really dirty.
Mary turned, and walked through the barrier, to find her friends.
Mary fell into a guy in front of her.
"Oh! Sorry! My bad- oh, it's you, Black."
Sirius looked back and said, "You really should watch where I'm going, MacDonald."
"Shut your trap. And you better have been practicing your beating skills, cause I'll be whooping your arse during Quidditch practice."
"Whatever," and he walked off, no doubt to find his friends.
Mary shook her head at him. Sirius was a player, and a prick too. She had to wonder how he had become a beater on the team, along with her, because if Newton was right, then the broom shouldn't have been able to fly up and inch, with the size of his head.
Suddenly, there was a flash of brown hair, and Mary was engulfed in a hug. Mary looked up to see her friend, Alice, hugging her.
"Great to see you, Alice!"
"You too!" Alice said, letting go. Mary could see Lily standing behind Alice, grinning.
"So, Alice," Lily asked. "Is this the year you will finally go out with Frank?"
Alice blushed, and Mary asked, "So, Lily, is this the year you'll finally get Potter off your back?"
"Hopefully."
Alice smirked, and said, "Mary, is this the year you will finally kill Sirius?"
I squealed and said, "I know! I can't wait!"
Another girl walked through the barrier, and saw Mary. 'Mary! How dare you! I didn't get a single letter from you!"
"Sorry, Marlene," Mary replied, sheepishly.
"And I was able to correspond with Lily and Alice all summer! Why not you?"
"Well, my parents dragged me to the States."
"Really?" Lily asked. "I've never been there. Always wanted too, though. What was it like?"
"Well, I went to the big cities, New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. New York had so much shopping!"
Marlene perked up. "What? I must go there!"
"Right… and Chicago, that was pretty much the same essential. But, Washington D.C., that was cool."
"How so?"
"Well, the other two cities were really tall, but D.C. wasn't. I think my mum said that there was actually a law with a height limit on the buildings."
"Oh, yeah! I read about that! They want the Washington Monument to be easily seen."
None of us were particularly surprised that Lily knew this. "Well, anyway, if you ever go there, you must see the FDR memorial! It's the best sight there!"
Sirius walked by again, with Remus, James, and Peter.
"Ahh… Marlene, my lovely lady. Wonderful to see you," Sirius said, bowing, and offering his hand to Marlene.
"Sirius, same goes to you. Maybe we can meet up on the train for a bit of…" Marlene said, smirking.
"It would be a pleasure."
As soon as the group walked off, Mary turned to Marlene. "You want to snog him??"
"Mary, Mary, Mary. It's all for the sake of the little black book. I have snogged every guy – in a suitable age range- who isn't in Slytherin, except for Sirius. I need him to complete my collection."
"Still, that's pretty sick."
Lily cut in, "I'd never be able to do it. Every single guy in our school either ignores me, doesn't know I exist, or mocks me. At least Marlene commands respect."
Mary scoffed. "Yeah. But do you really want that kind of respect?"
Marlene, on the other hand, looked hurt. When the group reached their compartment, she said, "But that's not true Lily."
"How?"
"Everyone knows you exist, not with the way James has been going on."
"So? What about everything else?"
"Guys worship you! They just are in denial that they love you."
"Huh?"
"Come on. They don't want to think that they're in love with a know it all stuck up."
"What did you just call me?"
"You can't deny it. You were sort of prissy in first and second year."
"Well, what about the mocking part?"
"Who mocks you?"
"Potter."
"Idiot! He really does love-"
At this point, the door slid open, to show James. His hair was messy as usual, and he had grown, putting him up at 6'2". That was something that Mary had to smirk at. It would be very hard for Lily to kiss him when she finally did. Mary, Alice, and Marlene were all supporters of the two getting together. Of course, it wasn't hard for her to notice, seeing as Lily was only 5'8", still pretty tall, but significantly shorter than James.
"Did I just hear someone insult Lily?" he asked, concernedly.
"Ooh, his Lily senses are tingling," Mary muttered to Alice, who giggled.
Lily looked coolly at James. "I believe this is none of your business, Potter."
Lily shoved him outside, and slammed the door closed.
Mary heard James whisper. "She touched me! On the chest!" and listened as he scampered off, before snorting.
Alice looked at Marlene. "He didn't ask Lily out, not once!"
"The apocalypse is coming!" Marlene screeched, dramatically.
"Yeah, but his Lily senses are still running," Mary retorted.
"Our little boy's growing up!"
"And I think Lily's going to fall head over heels for him."
"Would you two please stop talking about me like I'm not in the room?"
"Aw man! You're such a spoil sport!"
They sat there for a while, talking. Mary brought out a set of Exploding Snap, and was playing it with Alice. Marlene was examining an article titled 'How to Schemishly Plot Your Friend Into Falling in Love With Her Worst Enemy' while cackling. Every so often, Lily looked up from her book (The Three Musketeers) to send a weird glance at Marlene, when she cackled to loud.
"Okay, Marlene. This is really starting to scare me."
"Oh, don't worry."
Lily glanced at her watch and exclaimed, "Bloody hell! The prefects meeting started one minute ago! Alice! We gotta go!"
Lily dragged Alice out, who was protesting that she had to get her badge, in order for entry. A minute later the tow came back in, as Lily had also forgotten her badge.
The two then left, hurriedly.
Marlene turned to Mary. "You'd think she'd be more responsible, as Head Girl and everything."
"I wonder who the Head Boy is."
"Remus."
"That's what I was going to say!"
"Eh, he'd be perfect as Head Boy. But, it'd be cool if it was James."
"That'd be hilarious!"
"Which is why I tried to bribe Dumbledore into choosing James, but, it didn't work."
"You bribed a teacher??"
"Well, it wasn't for a grade! Though, maybe I should try that sometimes."
"Jeez, Marlene."
"Anyway, you should read this article."
Marlene shoved the article into Mary's hands. Mary read it through.
"I mean, it's perfect! They are sooo meant to be together!"
Mary nodded.
"And, Alice will love it too! I'll show it to her later. I couldn't exactly show it to the both of you in front of Lily."
"So, this is why you were cackling."
"Yeah, and cuz it's fun."
"It is?"
"Yeah! You should totally try it!"
And the two both started cackling madly.
Ten minutes later…
"You're right! It is fun!"
"When am I wrong?"
"Let's do it again!"
AN: That's the first chapter. This will NOT be all from Mary's point of view. Just to tell you.