1So enjoy this story. I got the idea while I was brushing my teeth in the dark. I immediately started writing it down and was promptly yelled at by my darling mother to "GO TO SLEEP!" because it was rather late. But I hope you like it. I know nothing much happens this chapter but it is going to be a good one. So enjoy chapter one.

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Chapter One: Fresh Faces and Seventh Year.

Charlie stepped through the barrier to platform 9 3/4 and scanned the platform for her best friend. She immediately spotted her, Lily Evens, the only girl with bright red hair. Charlie took a deep breath, tugged her shirt straight, tucked her short hair behind her ears, grabbed her trunk and dragged it over to where Lily was standing.

Charlie put down her trunk and tapped Lily on the shoulder. Lily turned around and faced Charlie, a smile slowly spreading across her pretty face.

"Lils!" Charlie cried. "I've missed you! My summer has been so boring without you" She pulled Lily into a hug.

Lily let go of Charlie and held her at arms length, appraising her. "OH MERLIN!" Lily exclaimed, staring disbelievingly at Charlie. "You look fantastic," Lily grinned, letting go of her.

Charlie blushed scarlet. "Aw, thanks. You do too."

Lily's smile broadened. "Not as good as you! You grew like five inches! That's amazing! And your hair! You cut it all off!" cried Lily, reaching up and touching Charlie's deep chestnut coloured hair.

"Yea, I lost fifteen pounds too." said Charlie, still blushing red.

Lily let go of Charlie's hair. "Ok spin, show that new-and- improved self off!" she said, twirling her index finger in midair.

Charlie spun slowly on the spot, feeling silly. As she did, Charlie noticed some of her fellow school mates also coming onto the platform. She smiled at the new stares she was getting from some of the boys. These stares were something completely new for her; boys never looked twice at her before. Actually noone noticed her before, she had always been a wallflower, someone of little consequence, but always a force to be reckoned with, if you got on her bad side. But Charlie found that she rather liked the new attention she was getting. She competed her circle and faced Lily once more.

"So now that I have displayed myself for you like some clumsy ballerina, shall we get on the train?" Charlie asked as she lifted her trunk.

Lily grinned broadly "Well at least it was only your body that changed and not your--"

"OY! EVENS!" cried a deep voice from Lily's right.

Lily's smile slowly fell off her face as she turned to face the boy who was calling her. A boy who had unruly jet black hair and hazel eyes ; a boy who had had a crush on her for the past six years and done his utmost to drive her insane; a boy, despite his best intentions, who had slowly become the first on Lily Evans' bad- list. It was none other than the prank-pulling, attention-seeking James...

"Potter," said Lily coolly. "What do you want?" she asked.

James remained undaunted as he stepped in front of Charlie, like she wasn't there.

"Well, one thing hasn't changed." thought Charlie.

"Well, since it's a new term. I thought I would ask you how your summer was, if you missed me...that sort of thing." James began innocently, looking into Lily's deep, but currently narrowed, green eyes.

Lily sighed.

Charlie giggled softly.

" And then once you said that you had indeed missed me," continued James. " I thought we could..ya know,." he grinned, making a gesture with his hands, and Lily rolled her eyes, looking to Charlie for help. Charlie only held up her hands and shrugged.

"Sorry," mouthed Charlie from behind James' shoulder.

"So what'da ya say Evans?" asked James. "Will you go out with me?" He hitched up what he thought to be his most handsome grin.

"Hmmm, let's think Potter." Lily pretended to think hard. " My answer for the past six years has been no...but," Lily paused, drawing out her answer.

James looked ta her hopefully.

" I have to say that the answer for this year is...well, it's still no." Lily said abruptly as she turned, grabbed her trunk and began to board the train. "I'll meet you on, yeah Charlie? I've suddenly gotten a headache."

James' smile broadened. "Oh I will get you to go out with me, Evans." he said softly to Lily's retreating form. "Before this year is up, I will..."

"I don't think you will," piped up Charlie, from behind James, grabbing her trunk and getting ready to follow Lily onto the train.

James jumped slightly and turned around to face the person speaking, surprised to find there was someone behind him. "And why is that?" he asked.

"Well, here, I'll give you a little tip," started Charlie, leaning in.

James leaned in too, desperately wanting to get some inside information to help him woo Lily.

"She absolutely hates it when she is called by her last name."

James' face fell a little. "Really? He asked.

"Really." said Charlie, smiling weakly.

"Uh, right. Thanks."

Charlie turned to board on the train.

"Wait." asked James curiously. "Is this your first year at Hogwarts? I don't recognize you. Did you come from another school? What's your name?"

"Seriously?" asked Charlie frowning. "I've gone to Hogwarts with you for the past six years."

"Oh I get it. You're in a different house then." Said James smiling politely.

Charlie sighed, typical. "No. I'm in Gryffindor. I'm..."

"PRONGSIE!" cried another boy walking over to James and Charlie followed by two others. He pulled James into a hug. The loud boy was tall, muscular and handsome, with shaggy dark brown hair and deep black eyes. He was the boy for whom all the girls swooned, one Sirius Black.

Charlie took one look at him and hastened onto the train without a second glance. Firstly, she couldn't stand Sirius Black and secondly, she need to find Lily.

Sirius let go of James and looked around. "So how was your summer, prongsie ol' boy?"

"Not bad, not bad. Remus, Peter. Hey." James nodded at them. The other two boy said hello and nodded too. James looked around the platform for the girl that he had just been talking to, the one that had given him such helpful information. He spun in a circle, trying to spot her.

"What are you looking for?" asked Sirius, clapping an arm around James' shoulders.

"I was talking to this girl I didn't recognize, but she's scampered off." said James with a furrowed brow.

"Really?" asked Sirius. "Our year?"

"She said so."

"Excellent." said Sirius. He had always been a bit girl crazy.

"This is the year, I can feel it." he said. "I'm going to have a meaningful relationship..."

James, Remus and Peter all stared at Sirius and started laughing hysterically, unable to believe their ears. Sirius Black in a serious relationship...

"BAH HAHAH!"

"Yeah, right."

"Good one Padfoot."

"What? I am." Sirius said defensively.

"Of course you are."Said James. "And I'm going to learn how to fly without a broomstick."

And, still laughing, the four Marauders boarded the train.

Charlie found Lily at the back of the train. She entered the compartment, stowed her trunk, closed the compartment door and sat down with a sigh.

"I know exactly how you feel." Lily replied, her eyes closed.

The train ride to Hogwarts was surprisingly relaxing. There were no interruptions by any of the Marauders, though the compartment door was occasionally whipped open by someone passing in the corridor to exclaim that Charlie looked amazingly great.

Charlie and Lily talked about their summers. Lily had gone to Italy with her family and had, apparently, learned loads. She had even rewritten her history of magic essay "Famous International Convention Sites Where Generally Picked for their Magical Properties. Discuss with ample examples" to include the information she had come across. Charlie, had obviously, completely changed her body, though it wasn't a very exciting story. Not compared to Lily's trip to Italy anyway.

The girls played a game of Exploding Snap and a round a of Wizard Chess. Lily won the exploding snap game, however, Charlie won the Chess match.

Soon the train had arrived at Hogmeade station. The students were brought up to the school in the horseless carriages and had entered the Great Hall. The new first years were sorted into houses and The feast began. But it was rather uneventful, compared with usual Hogwarts feasts. Peeves had been taken ill, so he wasn't swooping around dropping buckets of flobber worms an anyone's head, like last year.

In what seemed to be a blink of an eye, everyone was heading to his or her house tower.

Lily and Charlie walked sleepily up the spiral staircase to their dormitory with the other seventh year girls of Gryffindor, and pushed open the door to their beloved and sorely missed dormitory. They each walked over to their four-poster beds, threw open their trunks, pulled out their pajamas, tugged off their school robes, and slipped into their pajamas. Then they each crawled into bed, drew their hangings around themselves and promptly fell asleep.

"There must be something in that food..." yawned Charlie, mumbling into her pillow as she fell asleep.

"Mmm...yea" replied Alice and Lily together.

The next morning Lily woke up bright and early and got dressed quietly. When she had finished she threw her pillow at Charlie to wake up her still sleeping roommate. Everyone else had already gone down to breakfast.

"Wake up darling," she called in a sing-song voice, pulling back the hangings on Charlie's four-poster bed.

"Five more minutes..." Charlie muttered vaguely, still asleep..

"It's another start of term!" called Lily, jumping onto Charlie's bed. "Up and at'um!"

Charlie groaned, aimed a kick in the general direction of Lily, misjudged and fell off the bed with a thump, all the covers coming off the bed and piling on top of her unhappy face.

"Ugh..." groaned Charlie, rubbing her head.

"Serves you right for trying to kick me this early in the morning." grinned Lily.

"Oh you just wait until I wake up." yawned Charlie.

"I'll meet you in the Common room, hurry up. I'm starved... You're the last one."

"Yeah yeah..." Charlie muttered.

Charlie finally got up and streached. She threw the covers back on her bed and walked to her trunk. She pulled out her robes for the day and she got dressed. After a few more minutes of dark muttering about waking up so early in the morning, Charlie proceeded down the steps to the common room. There were three or four small first years mingling about, not wanting to be the first to push open the Fat lady's portrait and all looking hungry. Charlie smiled at them, thinking how she had felt on her first morning at Hogwarts.

Looking around the common room, Charlie spotted Lily standing by one of the windows, looking onto the grounds.

"OY! EVANS!" Charlie called, imitating James Potter.

Lily turned around and grinned. "Good thing he already went down to breakfast...left just as I came down." she said walking to where Charlie was waiting near the portrait hole. The pair pushed it open and Lily walked through first. Charlie looked back at the first years and beckoned to them.

"Well, c'mon." she called kindly. "You don't want to miss breakfast on your first day." She held the portrait open invitingly to them.

They smiled at her and all scrambled through the hole into the hall. Charlie followed after them and then she and Lily walked down to the Great Hall.

Sirius looked up just as Lily entered the Great Hall. He grinned and elbowed James who was sitting next to him.

"What'da ya think?" he asked cheekily, looking from James back to Lily in the entranceway. "Is this finally going to..." but he stopped.

Next to Lily was a beautiful girl that he didn't know. That in its self was a rare thing, Sirius prided himself of knowing every beautiful girl at Hogwarts. She had short dark hair, tan olive skin, deep rich eyes, and full pouty lips. She was smiling and laughing as she walked with Lily toward the Gryffindor table.

Who is she? He thought. Is she single? I wonder

how long it would take for me to... but his thoughts were interrupted by Remus' voice...

"Uh oh." said Remus, smiling as he observed the twin looks of lust that spread across James and Sirius's faces.

James sat up straighter in his chair, running a hand through his hair to muss it up, "the windswept look", as he called it. Sirius also straightened, putting an arm casually over the back of his chair and shaking his shaggy head, slightly puffing up his chest.

Lily and her friend continued to walk toward the boys, drawing nearer and nearer. The dark haired girl glanced at the boys, smiled at Remus, who nodded back, and kept walking, never breaking conversation with Lily.

Sirius' mouth fell open as he followed the dark haired girl with his eyes to where she sat at further down the table. She moved with an air of confidence that he found impossibly attractive. But he was confused. Never, in his entire history at Hogwarts, all six long, fun, rule-breaking, detention-getting and girl-filled years of it, had a girl ever looked at him and not blushed. Never had a girl not paused in her conversation to glance at him. This snub only made him want to impress her more, made him want her more. And once Sirius Black set his mind on something he wanted, he did everything in his power to get it, no matter what the cost.

Both Sirius and James had slumped back into their seats when the girls hadn't acknowledged them. Sirius turned to James who looked equally as crest-fallen as he did, both sighed.

"Did you see her?" asked Sirius. "She's gorgeous! Who is she?" he craned his neck for a better look. "Is she a transfer from Beauxbatons?" He looked inquiringly from Remus to Peter to James.

James squinted. "That's the girl I was talking to on the platform." he said half-heartedly. He looked back to where Lily was sitting. "Said she was here all six years..." he continued distractedly.

"What!" exclaimed Sirius, tearing his eyes away from the mysterious girl to look at James. "You talked to her?" he asked, his gaze going back to the girl.

"Yea, she gave me some inside information on Lily." James shrugged. "Actually it was quite helpful. Nice girl that one..." James decided.

"How could I not have noticed her before?"Sirius pondered. "Someone who looks that gorgeous could not have escaped my attention." He thought back trying to remember her from last year. Then another thought drifted across his mind, banishing the previous with a soft pop. "She didn't even smile at me!" exclaimed Sirius.

"Well I doubt she would after what you've..."began Remus, trying to look Sirius in his lust sick eye, but failing miserably.

"How can any girl resist this?" interupted Sirius grinning his trademark grin which made the three fifth year girls sitting diagonally from him squeal with delight.

"Well..." began Remus, starting to make a list of reasons in his head, in chronological order.

"Ah what a start to the new term..." sighed Sirius, looking at the dark haired girl.

"Another year it is," said James, still glancing longingly at Lily.

"And sure to be full of adventures," grinned Sirius, a mischievous look coming into his eyes.

"Uh no..." sighed Remus.

Peter munched his toast and stared at his goblet darkly.

Lily and Charlie entered the Great Hall, chatting quietly.

Charlie nudged Lily as she looked over at the Gryffindor table and spotted James oogling Lily.

Charlie grinned. "Ohh Jamsie-poo is still head over heels for you. That's so sweet." A pause ensued as Charlie thought. "I think you should give him a chance. I think after six years you can at least let him buy you a Butterbeer or something. And after that..." Charlie's smile grew wider and more playful. "Who knows..." she looked at Lily, who frowned at her. "Can I be the godmother of your children?" Charlie asked sweetly, batting her long eyelashes innocently at Lily.

"I am no longer your friend," said Lily seriously, but she couldn't suppress a snort of absurdity, as she glanced at the table too. "Oh ho..."she exclaimed as they kept walking. "It seems that a certain Mr. Sirius Black has taken an interest

in thee..."

"You're bluffing..." started Charlie, trying to look to. But trying to look like she wasn't looking.

"Mmmmhmmm..." snorted Lily.

As Charlie and Lily drew nearer to the table, Charlie realized that Sirius Black was indeed looking at her. He had even thrown his arm over the chair and puffed up like the pompous popinjay he was. Charlie's eyes darkened slightly. As they passed the boys Lily determinedly gazed in the opposite direction of James, trying very hard not to look at him. Charlie glanced at all the boys and smiled at Remus Lupin.

Charlie liked Remus and counted him as one of her friends. He had noticed her. Ever since he had taken the time to teach her their charms work after she had been ill in their fifth year. But she couldn't for the life of her understand why he hung around with a prat like Sirius Black. Remus was smart and quiet, not loud and the rule-breaking type like Black. But then again there was no accounting for taste in the world.

Remus nodded back to her.

Charlie and Lily sat down at the table a little way away from the Marauders, as they were called. Lily was still leering at Charlie. "So?" she asked.

"I will never," started Charlie. "In a hundred million years go out with Sirius Black." she finished, as she took a piece of toast and bit into it.

"So you're still holding a grudge against him?' asked Lily, piling her plate with eggs.

"Yes," said Charlie through her mouth-full of toast.

Lily thought for a moment. "Too bad we don't have a time-turner so you could go back to when you did like him."

"Oh ha ha." said Charlie sarcastically, pouring herself and Lily pumpkin juice. "Waste of my bloody time, that was..."

Lily glanced down the table to where James was avidly watching her and to where Sirius was intensely watching Charlie.

"He's not going to give up on you, you know that don't you."

"Yes, I know." said Charlie with a grimace. "I'll just have to put him in his place," she grinned wickedly. "I almost want him to try something..." said Charlie.

Lily laughed. "Watch out Sirius Black." she said aloud. "You have no idea what you have gotten yourself into."

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