Disclaimer: I own no characters from the Harry Potter world, they all belong to the brilliant and wonderful JK Rowling! I do however find Sirius Black entirely too wonderful.

This is my first fanfic and I'm really, really excited about it! The first two or three chapters aren't too long but they will progressively get longer as the story progresses. Read and review please, I'll really appreciate it!


Marauder Meets Girl

Chapter One

Elaine Prescott, you are finally going home. I thought as I walked through the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Most young witches and wizards who were going back to school certainly weren't rejoicing in that fact like I was, but I couldn't help it, I was bloody excited for my fifth year. When my trolley, which was carrying my school trunks and my beautiful black and white Snowy Owl named Antigone, connected with the bricked wall at Kings Cross Station my heart sped up and although I knew this would never happen, I always feared that that barrier would be just that and that I would wake up from this amazing dream where I was a witch and going to school in an ancient enchanted castle where I was studying to make it in the wizarding world.

When I came out on the other side of wall, I saw the Hogwarts Express and my heart sped up. I couldn't describe how elated I was to be going back to school. I allowed my trolley to be taken by one of the porters and spotted my best friend in the world, Lily Evans.

Lily Evans was not only an incredibly talented witch but a really beautiful girl. Her hair was long and gorgeous shade of red which put my lengthy, light brown hair, which I was rather fond of, to shame. Her eyes were almond shaped and a stunning shade of green which also seemed to put my blue ones to shame, but nevertheless, I loved her like a sister. She was one of the few constants, besides school and my mother and father, in my life. Something else about Lily that I found superbly interesting was that she was muggle-born, and I only being around pure-blood wizards my entire life, I couldn't help but want to be at her home all the time.

I thought back to my parents and gave a small smile. Sure, I was excited to be going back to school, but I would miss them. They weren't like normal wizarding families, although they were pure-blood they weren't as obsessed with their bloodline like most of the others, but they were two very odd people. My father worked in the Ministry of Magic in the sporting department, working on things such as tournaments and the Quidditch World Cup and my mother stayed at home. And unlike most pure-blood families, they chose differently when it came to the war that was going on, they didn't care about Lord Voldemort and his obsession with killing off muggle-borns, they were more interested in just keeping me safe. Most of the time we were referred as blood-traitors.

"Lils!" I shouted over the jabbering of students saying goodbye to their parents and meeting up with their friends.

Lily spun around and spotted me at once. "Elaine!" She bounded towards me and hugged me tightly. "I've missed you! Wow, you look so grown up!"

I laughed and told her the same. After catching up for just a few more moments, we made our way on to the train and found a compartment which held our other two friends, Charlotte 'Charlie' Roberts, a half-blood witch with shoulder length blonde hair and big brown eyes, and Kendra Finkley, another half-blood witch with dark brown, nearing black hair and pale blue eyes. I jumped into the compartment and greeted the both of them and smiled when we all sat down.

The four of us made up the fifth year girls of Gryffindor House. Each of us were uniquely talented in certain areas, except for Lily who was just about good at anything. Charlie was a genius when it came to Ancient Runes and Arithmancy, Kendra had a talent for Potions and Herbology, while I held my own in Defense Against the Dark Arts and my absolute favorite, Transfiguration. Like I said before, Lily was good at everything.

As the four of us spoke about our holiday, we were interrupted by none other than James Potter and the rest of his little crew, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew, the four of them liked to call themselves the Marauders, some ridiculous name they had dubbed themselves in our first year. The four of them were the fifth year boys of Gryffindor House.

Lily tensed up immediately. Since our third year, James had had a crush on her and made it very clear to her that he wanted her to give him a chance. Unfortunately for him she couldn't stand him. "Well, I have to go to the Prefect carriage, I'll join you girls later."

James frowned.

"I'll join you Lily," Remus said before she left. "Charlotte, Kendra, Elaine, I hope you all had a good holiday." He went off to join Lily leaving the rest of the Marauders at the entrance of our compartment.

Remus was honestly the only one we really liked. He was a tall boy with shaggy light brown hair and was rather thin, but he was by far the nicest of what we had to put up with. Then there was James who had his fair share of admirers, he had fluffy dark brown hair that was always messy and brown eyes which were masked by exceptionally round glasses and he was just slightly shorter than Remus. He was also captain of the Quidditch team and was built like a chaser, muscular but not very intimidating.

Next was Peter Pettigrew, who was really the only one who didn't fit in to the group. He was a short boy and rather plump with big watery eyes, all he did was follow them around, not to mention he was as thick as one could get.

Finally, there was Sirius Black who was rather attractive but by far had the most ghastly personality. Sirius was insanely tall with shoulder length, nearing black hair and he had gray eyes with what looked like a few specs of blue. He was slightly bulkier in build than the rest of his friends because of his days as a beater on the Gryffindor House Quidditch team with long arms and large hands. Sirius also had plenty of girls chasing him at Hogwarts, and to be honest, they were rather annoying, walking about him giggling and staring, but he didn't seem to mind, well no, that isn't fair, it bothered him sometimes. During our third year he gave a girl a giraffe neck because she had tried to sneak a love potion in to his pumpkin juice. The sole thing that I found interesting about Sirius Orion Black, was that he was put into Gryffindor while the whole lot of his family had always been in Slytherin, he didn't get along with his pure-blood maniac parents, and for that, he was tolerable.

"Can we help you lot?" I asked as Sirius took a seat next to me and I groaned.

He grinned. "We can't just come and say hello? I'm offended. Right, Prongs?"

I rolled my eyes at the nickname. Aside from calling themselves the Marauders, they each had individual nicknames which I still didn't understand. James was Prongs, Sirius was Padfoot, Remus was Moony, and Peter was Wormtail.

James sat down on top of Charlie to annoy her. "I am totally offended Padfoot. Prescott we were just stopping by to say hello to our favorite Gryffindor gals."

Peter sniggered next to Sirius.

"Get off me!" Charlie snapped trying to push James off of her.

"They obviously haven't done much growing up over the holidays," Kendra stated while she flipped through the pages of a muggle magazine.

"More like they're never going to grow up," I muttered but Sirius heard me.

"What has got your knickers in a twist Prescott?" Sirius asked condescendingly.

I took my wand out of my pocket. "Black, you and your friends get out now or I'll hex you into next term."

He rolled his eyes. "I'm shaking in my boots, Prescott."

I thought it funny that our unspoken rule was to talk to each other only using each others last names because we found each other so abhorred. "Don't sass me you toerag. Leave or I'll hex you, you know I will."

He sighed and stood up. "You're such a buzzkill. Come on Prongs, Wormtail, I can tell when we're not wanted."

Charlie let out a long breath when James hopped off of her. "Obviously not."

Before they left, Sirius turned and look at me, "By the way Prescott, you're looking good."

I pointed my wand at him before he laughed, loud like a bark, and closed the compartment door shut before I could jinx him. "Damn."

Kendra and Charlie laughed.

I made a face.

"He so fancies you," Charlie told me.

"Yeah, right. And I'm not going to get a single detention this entire school year," I scoffed. I was notorious for being a good student in tough subjects, but I was even more known for having enough detentions to rival that of Sirius and James, the top pranksters at school, because I enjoyed my fair share of pranks as well.

Lets just say Mr. Filch, the caretaker, couldn't stand the Gryffindor fifth years.

"He did say you were looking good, which you are! You're all grown up. Summer was very kind to you," Kendra pointed out.

I rolled my eyes. "Guys, it's Black, he says things like that to get into girls' pants. Who knows how many girls he has romped around with in the past two years."

At that moment, Lily walked in who was being escorted to the compartment by Severus 'Snivellus' Snape.

I shivered. Although he was friends with Lily, he gave me the complete creeps. He was tall and lanky with black eyes and a large hooked nose. His hair went below his chin and it disgustingly greasy. If I supported anything the Marauders did, it was their horrible behavior to Snivellus, a name I believe they created. They jinxed him every chance they had.

Lily said a cheery goodbye to him and he merely nodded at the rest of us.

"Lily, why are you friends with that greaseball?" I asked as politely as I could.

She gave me a stern look. "He's not bad! Besides, we grew up together. How can you stand being in the same room as James Potter?"

I laughed. "That is not the same thing. Granted, James is very annoying and he comes with awful baggage in regards to his friends, but at least he's clean."

Kendra and Charlie both giggled.

Lily sighed. "You're impossible."

I grinned at her. "But you love me!"

She shook her head. "I ask myself why, all the time."

I clutched my chest where my heart was and rolled to the floor of the compartment. "I-I-I think my heart is breaking. Oh, woe is me!"

The three of them laughed as Lily lifted me back into my seat. "You're ridiculous and I love you. Now, we should all change into our robes, I expect we'll be arriving some time soon."

"Here, here! Hurry up Ken and Charlie, Lils is a prefect now, don't forget."

Lily rolled her eyes but I could tell she was fighting a smile as the rest of us changed into our school clothes.