Disclaimer: I do not own anything except for any unfamiliar characters and
this plot, which was also somewhat derived from what the brilliant J.K.
Rowling gave me to work with. No copyright infringement intended.
That having been said, I sincerely hope you enjoy this story. It starts in Lily and the Marauder's seventh year. You will get to hang out Lily and her friends, the Marauders, Frank Longbottom and Alice, and many other characters from way back then. I have meshed the real world into the whole Gang's little Hogwarts world (you'll have to read and see). The story will continue on past their graduation (everyone's) and into the world, where they will join the forces of Good to battle Voldemort in The First War. This is romance, action, comedy, drama, and everything else- in no particular order.
Thanks for reading. -JGoddess
Chapter 1: The Usual
"Ahhh, fellas, do you smell that? That smell - so distinct, so sweet, so - mesmerizing. I love it. Don't you love it?" inquired James Potter, almost rhetorically, as he and his friends strolled down the great halls of Hogwarts.
After slight hesitation and a few perplexed looks, Peter Petigrew said slowly "Ah, James, hate to ask this but, what are you talking about?"
James closed his eyes for a few seconds and then opened them.
He sighed. "Wormtail, you are an absolute failure." Then he looked quickly at his other best friends, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. Sirius cocked a dark, shapely eyebrow inquisitively, while Remus just stared at him.
"Come on men! I'm talking about..girls." He exhaled the last word slowly.
"But girls don't smell, James." James ignored Peter.
"Haha, I knew what you were talking about, mate. I knew all along. I-"
"No, you didn't, Padfoot," James said, cutting off Sirius quickly.
"Er, right."
"Wormtail, let me enlighten you. Girls do smell. They smell good. They smell beautiful. Hell, they are beautiful," James began. Just then a very pretty blond haired girl from Ravenclaw walked by flanked by two less- radiant girls.
"Why hello there, Miss Wellings, did I mention that you look quite magnificent today?" James said, flashing her a brilliant, toothy grin. The girls erupted into giggles, with the blond haired girl blushing profusely. She managed to thrust out a "hello" and then practically sprinted off down the hall madly with her friends.
After watching them for a few seconds, Sirius commented matter-of-factly, "Now that is one fine specimen."
"Understatement," Remus said instantly, "Name's Alicia if I recall correctly.correct?"
"Take five points, Mr. Lupin. I hope you all got a good whiff of that, because that is as good as it gets, my friends. Note the affect that we, er, I had on her, " James said a bit idly.
Sirius punched him in the arm, "Aw, come on, Prongs, we all know that I'm the best looking one in this group." They tussled with each other as only great friends do, both managing to mess up the other's hair completely.
"Ah yes, mission accomplished," they both said
simultaneously.
"Gah! My hair!" cried Sirius as James said joyfully, "Yes, I love
when it's messy!"
"Actually, James, you look like you've been through a windstorm. Sirius, you're hair is perfectly fine," interjected Remus. James's hair truly did look like he had been through some type of heavily winded storm, as masses of it stood up in every direction all over his head. Sirius's dark hair had just magically fallen back into place with a few chunks hanging over his forehead into his eyes, causing Peter to stare at it in awe as he rubbed a hand over his short, dull, mousy brown hair.
They had been wandering the halls for about half an hour, mostly checking out any new developments in the girl department. As they headed back to the Gryffindor common room, they began to chat excitedly.
"Wow, did you see the legs on Mariana Sanders!" Sirius whistled.
"And Rebecca Crawling! She really filled out this year."
"I know, man, this year is going to be amazing!"
James subconsciously ran a hand through his messy, jet black hair. "Our last year, mates, we better make the very best of it." He ran a finger rather affectionately along the banister of the stairwell as they descended.
The corners of Sirius's mouth twitched upwards, "Oy, James, now what exactly does that mean?" Remus grinned.
"Why, that I will get Evans, of course," he stated rather pompously. The laughter following this comment echoed far down the empty hallway, scaring the wits out of a small group of first-years just around the corner who then promptly ran off to tell their friends that the castle was haunted.
Lily Evans stretched out sideways in the comfy armchair in front of a roaring fire in the common room. Her thick red locks spilled over the edge of the chair sparkling with warm golden highlights from the flames of the fire. Tiny splotches of pink appeared on her cheeks and matched the color of her small, soft lips. She smiled, fixing her luminous, emerald eyes on her friends who were sprawled out around her. Alice, a petite brunette, had just handed a stack of pictures to pretty fair-haired Wilona, who laughed at the top picture. Lily continued smiling dreamily, glad to be back home where she belonged, Hogwarts. Hogwarts. The embodiment of the world that changed her life. She still couldn't believe it. Only six years ago, she sat in her room, living her boring Muggle life with her boring Muggle family in a boring Muggle world. And now here she was, a witch, and one of the best in her class, at that.
"Our last year," she said sadly, making Alice and Wilona look up from their pictures and start screeching.
"Oh Merlin! Lily, we know! We know! Why'd you have to remind us! You're going to make me cry again," said Alice, looking miserably at Lily, tears in the corners of her eyes.
"Aw, Alice, come on. It's been fun though, hasn't it? Everything, I mean. Just everything," said Wilona, running her hand through Alice's hair comfortingly. "Just think, if we hadn't been rammed onto the same boat with each other our first year, we might not be such great friends." Alice giggled and Lily's smiled widened at the memory.
"Let's make this year perfect. Let's make it our best year ever," Alice said determinedly.
"Yeah, we should, shouldn't we?" murmured Lily softly, watching the dancing fire in front of her.
"What is with you today, Lily? You've been sitting in that chair for ages, just lying there with a dreamy look on your face." Lily snapped back to reality.
"I don't know, Alice, I was just thinking about stuff. Nothing important. I'm just trying to enjoy my time before classes start."
Alice seemed to think that an acceptable explanation, though it was the truth.
"Oh, you guys!" gushed Wilona a bit loudly. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" She seemed about ready to faint. "You know who I saw this morning? You know who I saw?" She began to hop up and down and wave her arms.
"Gee, Wilona, do some back flips why don't you? Some cartwheels, maybe you can get a broom and loop-de-loop outside for a bit. Either that or slow down," said Alice in a matter of four seconds.
"You are one to talk, Alice. And obviously Wilona is talking about Sirius Black; he's all she ever talks about, you should know that by now," said Lily, rolling her eyes and straightening up in her chair. She glanced around the common room, which was beginning to empty as people wandered upstairs to bed early because of classes tomorrow. Wilona looked disappointed at their lack of enthusiasm, and tried to start a different conversation with the obvious intention of directing it back to Sirius.
"Maybe we should just go to-" began Lily, but she drifted off when she saw the Portrait hole swing open wildly and a very dark, very messy head poke in.
Realization dawned on her, as only one head in the whole house could have hair like that. "Oh no, no, no, get me out of here, come on, let's go to bed. Now. Please. Please," Lily pleaded, her eyes hopelessly darting back and forth between her friends and the four boys who just entered the common room. She grabbed Alice's hand and pulled her towards the stairs. Wilona, however, stood rooted on the spot, her mouth slightly open.
"It's him," she said breathlessly, staring at Sirius.
"Oh for GOD's sake, Wilona. Suck it up!" snarled Lily uncharacteristically.
They had just about reached the stairs when she heard an all too familiar overly confident sounding voice say, "Well, hello there, Evans. In a hurry to get somewhere, are we?"
When she didn't turn around, the voice continued, "Might we be able to assist you fine ladies up to your dormitory?" Wilona let out a small squeal.
Lily closed her eyes and took a deep breath before she slowly turned around; her friends followed suit. James Potter stood in front of her, dark messy hair and all, while next to him stood Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. A small head poked out from behind James, and she identified it as Peter Pettigrew's head. She heard Wilona suck in her breath at the sight of Sirius in all his glory and perfection.
"Hello, James," she said simply and casually, not wanting him to have the satisfaction of seeing her angry. She realized her niceness was a large mistake, as James's eyes lit up joyfully at her friendliness.
"Evans! Nice to see you've finally come around. Very nice. So, does that mean you'll go out with me?" he asked assertively, sure of the answer. Remus looked a little doubtful, but Sirius was just about ready to clap his friend on the back.
Lily stared straight into James eyes and matched his confidence, calmly saying, "No thank you, I have much better things to do with my time," before she marched up the stairs in a swirl of red hair and black robes.
That having been said, I sincerely hope you enjoy this story. It starts in Lily and the Marauder's seventh year. You will get to hang out Lily and her friends, the Marauders, Frank Longbottom and Alice, and many other characters from way back then. I have meshed the real world into the whole Gang's little Hogwarts world (you'll have to read and see). The story will continue on past their graduation (everyone's) and into the world, where they will join the forces of Good to battle Voldemort in The First War. This is romance, action, comedy, drama, and everything else- in no particular order.
Thanks for reading. -JGoddess
Chapter 1: The Usual
"Ahhh, fellas, do you smell that? That smell - so distinct, so sweet, so - mesmerizing. I love it. Don't you love it?" inquired James Potter, almost rhetorically, as he and his friends strolled down the great halls of Hogwarts.
After slight hesitation and a few perplexed looks, Peter Petigrew said slowly "Ah, James, hate to ask this but, what are you talking about?"
James closed his eyes for a few seconds and then opened them.
He sighed. "Wormtail, you are an absolute failure." Then he looked quickly at his other best friends, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. Sirius cocked a dark, shapely eyebrow inquisitively, while Remus just stared at him.
"Come on men! I'm talking about..girls." He exhaled the last word slowly.
"But girls don't smell, James." James ignored Peter.
"Haha, I knew what you were talking about, mate. I knew all along. I-"
"No, you didn't, Padfoot," James said, cutting off Sirius quickly.
"Er, right."
"Wormtail, let me enlighten you. Girls do smell. They smell good. They smell beautiful. Hell, they are beautiful," James began. Just then a very pretty blond haired girl from Ravenclaw walked by flanked by two less- radiant girls.
"Why hello there, Miss Wellings, did I mention that you look quite magnificent today?" James said, flashing her a brilliant, toothy grin. The girls erupted into giggles, with the blond haired girl blushing profusely. She managed to thrust out a "hello" and then practically sprinted off down the hall madly with her friends.
After watching them for a few seconds, Sirius commented matter-of-factly, "Now that is one fine specimen."
"Understatement," Remus said instantly, "Name's Alicia if I recall correctly.correct?"
"Take five points, Mr. Lupin. I hope you all got a good whiff of that, because that is as good as it gets, my friends. Note the affect that we, er, I had on her, " James said a bit idly.
Sirius punched him in the arm, "Aw, come on, Prongs, we all know that I'm the best looking one in this group." They tussled with each other as only great friends do, both managing to mess up the other's hair completely.
"Ah yes, mission accomplished," they both said
simultaneously.
"Gah! My hair!" cried Sirius as James said joyfully, "Yes, I love
when it's messy!"
"Actually, James, you look like you've been through a windstorm. Sirius, you're hair is perfectly fine," interjected Remus. James's hair truly did look like he had been through some type of heavily winded storm, as masses of it stood up in every direction all over his head. Sirius's dark hair had just magically fallen back into place with a few chunks hanging over his forehead into his eyes, causing Peter to stare at it in awe as he rubbed a hand over his short, dull, mousy brown hair.
They had been wandering the halls for about half an hour, mostly checking out any new developments in the girl department. As they headed back to the Gryffindor common room, they began to chat excitedly.
"Wow, did you see the legs on Mariana Sanders!" Sirius whistled.
"And Rebecca Crawling! She really filled out this year."
"I know, man, this year is going to be amazing!"
James subconsciously ran a hand through his messy, jet black hair. "Our last year, mates, we better make the very best of it." He ran a finger rather affectionately along the banister of the stairwell as they descended.
The corners of Sirius's mouth twitched upwards, "Oy, James, now what exactly does that mean?" Remus grinned.
"Why, that I will get Evans, of course," he stated rather pompously. The laughter following this comment echoed far down the empty hallway, scaring the wits out of a small group of first-years just around the corner who then promptly ran off to tell their friends that the castle was haunted.
Lily Evans stretched out sideways in the comfy armchair in front of a roaring fire in the common room. Her thick red locks spilled over the edge of the chair sparkling with warm golden highlights from the flames of the fire. Tiny splotches of pink appeared on her cheeks and matched the color of her small, soft lips. She smiled, fixing her luminous, emerald eyes on her friends who were sprawled out around her. Alice, a petite brunette, had just handed a stack of pictures to pretty fair-haired Wilona, who laughed at the top picture. Lily continued smiling dreamily, glad to be back home where she belonged, Hogwarts. Hogwarts. The embodiment of the world that changed her life. She still couldn't believe it. Only six years ago, she sat in her room, living her boring Muggle life with her boring Muggle family in a boring Muggle world. And now here she was, a witch, and one of the best in her class, at that.
"Our last year," she said sadly, making Alice and Wilona look up from their pictures and start screeching.
"Oh Merlin! Lily, we know! We know! Why'd you have to remind us! You're going to make me cry again," said Alice, looking miserably at Lily, tears in the corners of her eyes.
"Aw, Alice, come on. It's been fun though, hasn't it? Everything, I mean. Just everything," said Wilona, running her hand through Alice's hair comfortingly. "Just think, if we hadn't been rammed onto the same boat with each other our first year, we might not be such great friends." Alice giggled and Lily's smiled widened at the memory.
"Let's make this year perfect. Let's make it our best year ever," Alice said determinedly.
"Yeah, we should, shouldn't we?" murmured Lily softly, watching the dancing fire in front of her.
"What is with you today, Lily? You've been sitting in that chair for ages, just lying there with a dreamy look on your face." Lily snapped back to reality.
"I don't know, Alice, I was just thinking about stuff. Nothing important. I'm just trying to enjoy my time before classes start."
Alice seemed to think that an acceptable explanation, though it was the truth.
"Oh, you guys!" gushed Wilona a bit loudly. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" She seemed about ready to faint. "You know who I saw this morning? You know who I saw?" She began to hop up and down and wave her arms.
"Gee, Wilona, do some back flips why don't you? Some cartwheels, maybe you can get a broom and loop-de-loop outside for a bit. Either that or slow down," said Alice in a matter of four seconds.
"You are one to talk, Alice. And obviously Wilona is talking about Sirius Black; he's all she ever talks about, you should know that by now," said Lily, rolling her eyes and straightening up in her chair. She glanced around the common room, which was beginning to empty as people wandered upstairs to bed early because of classes tomorrow. Wilona looked disappointed at their lack of enthusiasm, and tried to start a different conversation with the obvious intention of directing it back to Sirius.
"Maybe we should just go to-" began Lily, but she drifted off when she saw the Portrait hole swing open wildly and a very dark, very messy head poke in.
Realization dawned on her, as only one head in the whole house could have hair like that. "Oh no, no, no, get me out of here, come on, let's go to bed. Now. Please. Please," Lily pleaded, her eyes hopelessly darting back and forth between her friends and the four boys who just entered the common room. She grabbed Alice's hand and pulled her towards the stairs. Wilona, however, stood rooted on the spot, her mouth slightly open.
"It's him," she said breathlessly, staring at Sirius.
"Oh for GOD's sake, Wilona. Suck it up!" snarled Lily uncharacteristically.
They had just about reached the stairs when she heard an all too familiar overly confident sounding voice say, "Well, hello there, Evans. In a hurry to get somewhere, are we?"
When she didn't turn around, the voice continued, "Might we be able to assist you fine ladies up to your dormitory?" Wilona let out a small squeal.
Lily closed her eyes and took a deep breath before she slowly turned around; her friends followed suit. James Potter stood in front of her, dark messy hair and all, while next to him stood Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. A small head poked out from behind James, and she identified it as Peter Pettigrew's head. She heard Wilona suck in her breath at the sight of Sirius in all his glory and perfection.
"Hello, James," she said simply and casually, not wanting him to have the satisfaction of seeing her angry. She realized her niceness was a large mistake, as James's eyes lit up joyfully at her friendliness.
"Evans! Nice to see you've finally come around. Very nice. So, does that mean you'll go out with me?" he asked assertively, sure of the answer. Remus looked a little doubtful, but Sirius was just about ready to clap his friend on the back.
Lily stared straight into James eyes and matched his confidence, calmly saying, "No thank you, I have much better things to do with my time," before she marched up the stairs in a swirl of red hair and black robes.