Full Summary: James is the most popular guy in school... Lily Evans is an outcast... when he finds a seemingly harmless book, he has no clue what he is about to find out, and when he discovers it. What will he do to change the girl the book is about? Can he actually change her and in the end change himself? 6th yr

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. All I own is the plot!

Wow! I know it's been a long time, but I figured since ya'll haven't given up on me, then I won't just quit either.

So I shall start with fixing all the problems!

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The black haired girl sat silently on her bed completely absorbed in her writing. She sighed softly and looked up.

The room was decked out in shades of red with light streaming in through the open window. Of course, the light never reached her old, broken bed.

She, I guess many of you would say, is an outcast. The 'in' crowd doesn't like her clothes or hair or even her eyes. She had only one friend and was ignored by everyone else; then again her cold demeanor might not have helped the situation.

You must be wondering what she looks like. She wasn't ugly; on the contrary she was actually really pretty. But she hid it all. See it was her belief that if someone were to be her true friend or true love then they would love her for her, not for what she looked like. Then and only then would she let them see her true colors; the way she really was. She had got this theory out of a letter from her mom. She took so much bullshit just to find those people. Her life wasn't great even out of school. It was all like a hell was taking place and she was the center of attack. Well maybe you should find out more about this girl.

Her hair was long, straight, and a dark black. Her eyes were black, but they were contacts. She wore baggy black pants with zippers and chains. Her shirt was always something relatively baggy preferably red or black or sometimes white. She wasn't fat or anything no matter what people believed. She was deeply into Thai boxing, Filipino Martial Arts, and Jeet Kune Do. The end result is her being in tip-top shape. She, more or less, dressed to be comfortable and intimidating at the same time. On her arms, she had tons of bracelets mostly decorated with spikes or studs. Her necklace was really a spiked dog chain that she decided just completed her outfit. All together though the look was really unique and different. No one else at Hogwarts dressed like her.

Speaking of the girl, she closed her book and slipped it back into the secret compartment located in the side of her bed. Before she could perform her locking charm though, a high-pitched girly scream carried to her. The girl, being the curious creature she is, ran out of the room and to the top of the stairs, completely forgetting about her book. She came running down the stairs at top speed. When she reached the bottom the sight that greeted her was most hilarious; Sirius Black was getting pummeled by his girlfriend, Arabella Figg.

"Sirius Black, I'm going to kill you for that!" Arabella screamed into Sirius's ear.

"God woman, I'm going to be deaf before I even hit 20…"

Arabella pulled back and hit his arm pretty hard.

"Ow! What the bloody hell was that for?"

"For making fun of my CAT! Now admit that Storm is SEXY!"

"Never! Ouch! Okay okay…yourcatstromissexy." He mumbled.

"What did you say? Make it loud and clear."

"Your cat Storm is sexy!" Sirius screamed.

Everyone at that point turned and looked at him. All of a sudden a loud laughter rang out. The girl with black hair was on the flooring laughing her arse off. Because she had started laughing, she didn't notice James Potter slip up the stairs behind her and head up to her dorm.

James opened the door a crack and after making sure no one else was there he walked straight in. He then pulled off his invisibility cloak. The whole reason he was even up here was because some chick named Bonnie Hill was talking shit about Arabella. So the Marauders decided that she deserved some pay back. They had the prank planned a week ago and today was the day it was going into action. The only problem was that this nobody named Lily Evans wouldn't come down. They waited for about an hour until Sirius got the bright idea of making a huge scene with Arabella so that Lily would get curious and come down. Then James would slip up there and do his job. As of the moment everything was going according to plan. Though no one really expected her to come down as fast as she did and to end up on the floor laughing. She was normally really intimidating and just a moment ago she seemed almost normal. James's jaw had dropped when she fell down. Now that he was upstairs though, he looked around and discovered a huge flaw in their master plan. He didn't know which bed was Bonnie's.

"Fuck!" he said out loud. "Now what am I going to do? Wait a minute why am I talking to myself? Remember: Get head checked. Argg! I'm still doing it!"

James started walking around the room praying for something to jump and exclaim, "That's her bed!" But alas it never came. Though something else surprising happened. When he was walking by a broken old bed he tripped over a broomstick and hit his head against the bedpost.

'Holy shit! Mental Note to self: Get eyes checked and never hit head again on a bedpost!' he thought to himself while massaging his forehead.

When his head hit the bed the movement caused the secret compartment to pop open. James looked at the compartment and was intrigued. He sat down on the bed and reached his hand into the compartment. He pulled out a huge book. The cover simply read, "The story of Emerald by Lily Evans."

'What the? A book? By Lily Evans? Let's see what she writes about… my guess is ponies and how she wishes she were pretty and popular.' James rolled his eyes.

James pointed his wand at the book and said a duplicating spell. He then slipped the copy into his robes for him and his friends to read later. He then put the original book back into the compartment and shut it. Okay so that obviously wasn't Bonnie's bed. James then stop up and looked around.

'On with the prank! Where oh where is Bonnie's bed? Where oh where could it be? Dude I need to destroy Sirius's tape! I always knew I would lose it because of him!' James thought.

After two more tries he discovered the right bed, which wasn't a hard feat considering the room only had four of them. James finally set up the prank quickly because he had been up there for a good 30 minutes and he wasn't sure if Sirius could entertain Lily that long. Though he probably could keep a Death Eater laughing or maybe even Voldie-boy, though they had never had the chance to try before. It was his educated guess. James shrugged and picked up his cloak. He threw it on and left the dorm. When he came downstairs he saw something he thought he would never see and it nearly made him piss his pants.

Lily Evans was sitting on the couch laughing at Sirius, who was running around the room with a blanket for a cape and a pair of bright pink underwear on his head.

Sirius was screaming, "I'm Super Sirius conqueror of all cats! Zoom!"

And of course his hands out in front of him accompanied the zoom like he was really flying. James went quickly up to his room while he could still hold in his laughter.

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(What happened while James was upstairs?)

Lily stayed on the floor laughing like that for a good five minutes. Finally she sat up and looked at Sirius, who of course was laying on ground with Arabella on his stomach looking about as innocent as a little boy caught with his hand in a cookie jar could possibly look. Everyone, of course, was staring at her like she just turned into Goldie-locks himself.

"What are you all looking at?" she said coldly.

Remus Lupin, always the kind one, got up and walked over to her. He offered her his hand.

"Names Remus Lupin. Lily Evans right?" he asked politely.

"Why do you want to know?" she asked still quite coldly.

"Well excuse me for being polite."

"Sorry! Gees! Yeppers that would be me!" she exclaimed with a sudden change of attitude.

Sirius looked up at Arabella and mouthed, 'Yeppers?'

Arabella started laughing and Sirius pushed her off of him.

"Offph! That I must say was unnecessary!"

With that Arabella stood up and put her hands on her hips and stuck her nose high up in the air.

"You know if it were to rain you would drown?" Sirius then grinned evilly and muttered a spell that conquered up a rain cloud above her head, which promptly started raining on her.

"Sirius Black! You evil insufferable prick! You are never touching me again…ever!" she sputtered. "Now stop this contraption before I DUMP YOU!"

Sirius instantaneously said the counter spell and got on his knees and started apologizing while kissing her feet.

"I'm *Kiss* sorry baby! I didn't *Kiss* mean it! *Kiss* I really *Kiss* am sorry! *Kiss* Please *Kiss* forgive *Kiss* me!"

Arabella looked up at Lily and grinned. She then mouthed, 'Pathetic ain't it?'

Lily nodded and walked over to the couch.

"Okay! You are forgiven!" she stated calmly.

Sirius jumped up and clasped his hands together above his head and said, "That's right no one can resist this charm!"

"Oh yeah! You're completely right! You're like Super Sirius! So irresistible!" Lily exclaimed sarcastically while rolling her eyes.

Sirius then grinned and said, "Accio Underwear!"

A pair of bright pink underwear came flying at him. He caught them and put them on his head and pulled hair through the part where u put your legs. He then picked up a red blanket off the coach and tied it around his neck. He then began running around the room with his arms in front of him. He jumped on the furniture and tables. All the while exclaiming, "Zoom!"

He even went as far as to shout, "I'll save you Lady Lily from the evil Mooney!"

He rushed to Lily and picked her up. He ran around the room with Lily in his arms while the 'Evil' Mooney chased 'Super' Sirius trying to get 'Lady' Lily back. Remus finally caught up and stole Lily away and ran back to the coach. He set her down on the couch and turned back to Sirius.

"And evil prevails over Super Sirius! Fly away good man and leave fair Lily alone!"

Sirius pouted then continues his zooming.

(James comes down now)

He screamed, "I'm Super Sirius conqueror of all cats! Zoom!"

He then threw his arms out again and resumed his zooming.

Lily just sat on the coach with Remus, laughing at Sirius's antics.

Lily after awhile though said, "Lady Lily would like to go to the kitchens, Catch You Later!"

With that she left the Common Room through the Portrait Hole.

Sirius finally took a seat next to Remus.

He then said, " Come on Mooney, and Bella. We have to go see James and find out how everything went."

Sirius stood up and took off the cape and underwear with as much dignity as he could maintain after having bright pink underwear on his head. He slung them on his arm and then took off up to the boy's dorms with Arabella and Remus in tow. Peter, our ratty friend, was no were in sight, probably off somewhere eating.

James meanwhile was pacing around the room impatiently waiting for them to get their arses up there. He was anxious to start reading Evan's book. It had to have something he could use against her in it. He heard from very reliable sources that she was a cold, heartless bitch and if you so much as looked at you funny she would go off on your ass. Maybe this book could explain why she acted like that or maybe give him something to use as blackmail. Either way the time reading it would be productive. James put it under his pillow for safekeeping.

Sirius, Arabella and Remus came charging in the room. Arabella and then Remus followed Sirius. Sirius ended up tripping over someone's shoe and falling on his stomach with his head by James's feet.

"I always knew that someday you would be at my feet, worshipping the ground that I walked on." James remarked.

Sirius then got on his knees and started bowing at James's feet.

"All hail King James! The git extraordinaire! Let his ego always be able to fill the Hogwarts castle! All hail the ground that he so chooses to walk on!" Sirius remarked sarcastically.

Arabella and Remus dropped on their knees besides Sirius and also started bowing.

"All hail King James!" they exclaimed in unison.

"I know, I know my adoring fans! I am the best!" James said proudly.

Sirius then got an idea and looked at the other two; apparently they were thinking the same thing. Sirius mouthed '1-2-3!' With that they grabbed James and pulled him to the floor.

"Mutiny? In my kingdom! You'll never take me alive!"

James jumped up and grabbed a pillow.

"I will destroy all who do not obey me!"

"Down with the King!" Arabella shouted while charging at him with her pillow in the fighting position.

"Never!"

With that all three of them jumped on James and started smacking him with the pillows. By the time they were done the entire room was covered in feathers and everything was askew. They all finally lay down on the floor out of breath.

"The king is overthrown after a fierce battle!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Okay! Okay! I admit defeat anyways don't you want to know how it went?" James asked.

"YES!" they exclaimed.

"That was the reason we came up here. That and Lily left," Remus said matter-of-factly.

"That hurt Mooney! I thought you came to see me! Don't you guys love me anymore?" James said with fake tears in his eyes.

"Oh of course James! It wasn't the same without you!" Arabella declared.

She then threw her arms around his neck and hugged him.

"Geroffe." James mumbled. "Thanks couldn't breathe."

Arabella shrugged.

"I always knew you loved him and not me! I thought that weekend in Paris would have meant more to you!" Remus said sadly.

"Remus, of course it did! I wouldn't exchange that time for anything!"

She then threw her arms around him.

"You're strangling me Arabella."

"Sorry!"

Sirius just sat there and then he got up and sat down on his bed. He then closed the curtains. Sirius tended to get really jealous, really easy.

Arabella sighed, "Sirius you know I was joking! I wasn't being serious!"

Sirius came running out of his bed and declared, "Oh but I am! Super Sirius conqueror of all cats!"

"You forgot king of all pricks!" James said.

Sirius had the cape and the underwear on again.

"I will never know why I'm dating that idiot! Sirius take it off!"

Sirius then put in his "tape" that James hated. On came 'On top of old Smokey!'

"Anything for the Lady!"

Sirius then proceeded to strip to the song.

"I thought I hated that tape before but now I'm traumatized!" James said disgustingly and he started looking around the room.

He finally found a quill and said, "Must. Poke. Out. Eyes!"

Remus snatched the quill from James and turned off the stereo.

"Sirius take off the cape and underwear on your head. And god man put on your shirt and pants. Now move!"

"Yes Mommy!"

Remus rolled his eyes while Sirius got dressed. Sometimes Sirius could make a banana seem like the most intelligent thing in the universe.

"Arabella?" Remus asked.

"Yes?"

"Do you really have a cat named Storm?"

Arabella blushed, "Well no but that's all I could come up with on the spot. My mistake."

"So basically I said an imaginary cat was sexy? In front of the tower?"

"Pretty much! I'm sorry Siri! Come here!"

Arabella then started kissing Sirius.

"Bugger! I hate it when they do that! It makes me want to toss up everything I ate in the past week!" James said sickly.

"Anyways how did it go?"

"Well I couldn't find her bed at first. But after awhile I found it and everything is set up perfectly."

"I can't wait to see her face! It'll be priceless."

"I know! Funny thing though when I was looking for her bed I ran across this old broken one. I sort of tripped and hit my head on the post. But I discovered this compartment in the side of it. When I looked in there I found this book by Lily Evans. I haven't had a chance to read it yet. I decided to share it with you guys. I have this feeling it will be really interesting."

"James, I don't know about that. It's her property and we would be evading her privacy and plus you couldn't take the book without her noticing and creating hell looking for it." Remus said slowly.

James pulled out the book from under his pillow.

"I made a copy of it."

"I still don't know. She seems nice to me and I wouldn't want to hurt her."

"From what I've heard she's the one that hurts people. But if it's what you want, none of us will tell anyone. Right guys?"

The two other people looked at James weirdly.

"You just disrupted us. What is so important?" Sirius said while pouting.

"Yes James what?" Arabella asked curiously.

"I found a book by Lily Evans when I was up in the girl's dorm and made a copy of it. I was telling Mooney that we should read it but goody-goody here doesn't know. So I said we would keep it to ourselves and wanted you to agree with me." James explained in a nutshell.

"Oh! You have a book by Lily? Let me read it! Puh lease? I've always wanted to know what she was scribbling in. She's a really interesting person and I want to get to know her. I only have two years left to try, though she didn't seem very cold downstairs. I think Sirius and I caught her off guard. Please James?"

Arabella practically lunged at James for the book.

James jumped out of her reach though.

"Now tisk tisk Arabella! You shouldn't try to take things from other people!" he said while waving his index finger in her face.

James had the book high above his head. With him being so tall, Arabella had no chance of getting it. Arabella did some quick thinking and jumped onto the bed. She then grabbed the book and sat down with a triumphant smirk.

"Let's see what she wrote! I'll read out loud. Okay! Clears throat The story of Emerald by Lily Evans. Chapter 1 I guess I should start this book out by telling you why I'm writing it…"

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Alright, I know this wasn't exactly what ya'll wanted when you asked me to update but it's the best I can do right now because the mistakes would get on my nerves. Hopefully I can fix everything soon and get a new chapter up for you guys.