A/N: Thanks go to my beta, the spectacular Spectral Rose.

Disclaimer: It all belongs to the incredible Jo Rowling ((sobs)). I just like messing with their heads.

"Before you all become too befuddled by our fabulous feast to listen to a word I say, I have an announcement to make!" Dumbledore cheerfully announced. "The start of term will be delayed for one week!"

Sounds of cheering met this announcement. Only one person was not cheering. Lily Anne Marie Evans was repeatedly banging her head on the table hoping that this was all a very bad dream.

'Start of term can't be delayed!'she thought fiercely, as if that would make Dumbledore change his mind, 'this means that I am now stuck in the same tower with four undistracted Marauders for an entire week! Seven days. Seven days in the same place as the arrogant, ignorant, idiotic, bullying idiots (I think I said that already, but let's say it one more time for good measure) that were Potter and Black! The two boys that had made her life living hell for the past five years! Pigs would fly before Lily Evans forgave either of them.

Lily was not pretty. Well, she wasn't until the beginning of this year. 'Course, she wasn't pretty now either. Now she was drop dead gorgeous. Up till last summer she was ugly. She had been short and fat. She'd had the worst case of acne known to man. Her blood red hair was always frizzy, and had been hexed all the colours of the rainbow at least once. Her emerald green eyes had been hidden behind thick glasses, and her horrible magnetic braces had been stuck to almost everything, compliments of the Marauders. She got top marks in all her classes, but was a "stuck up snob", and a "rebel"who had no friends at Hogwarts. Her attitude was still the same, the Marauders were still the same, but her looks could not have been more different. Over the summer, Lily and her two friends, her ONLY friends, had given her a make over. Bubotuber puss had cleared up her acne. Her friends had magically corrected her eyes and teeth. And she had grown. She was no longer 4'6" and extremely wide waisted. She was now 5'5" with an hourglass shape. She had discovered a charm that made her normally frizzy hair smooth and silky. She had added topaz and copper streaks to her blood red locks, and at the moment, she was listening to the Headmaster happily state that her life would be living hell for the next seven days.

Sirius Black and James Potter were sitting at the Gryffindor table, happily contemplating all the possibilities they would have for pranks in the next seven days, when James noticed something.

"Hey Pads," he said, "where's Evans?"

Startled, the two looked up and down the table. The was no short, fat, frizzy haired, stuck up, snobbish, acne faced Prefect anywhere.

"I dunno. Maybe she left!" Sirius said seriously.

"Maybe. She was supposed to be at the Prefects meeting on the train, but Remus said she wasn't there."

"Oh well. Looks like we got a new hottie though." Sirius said, eyeing the beautiful redhead. His girlfriend of the day huffed indignantly.

On the was back to the common room, in a deserted corridor, Sirius and James saw "the new girl" walking up ahead carrying her books and a guitar case.

"Hey!" Sirius called loudly. Loud enough to startle her into dropping her things. She turned around and waited for him to catch up, then promptly slapped him across the face.

"WHAT THE HE..." Sirius began.

"Pads," James interrupted when he saw the Prefect badge pinned to the girls chest as she walked away, "that was Evans."