And here is the new and improved Amber Potter! I hope you like it!

Chapter 1

"Remus! Peter!" I called to my friends and ran towards them, dragging my luggage behind me, my snowy owl Avery in my arms. I put her down and gave each of them a big hug, exchanging greetings. It was great to see them again, I hadn't seen them all summer which had sucked because my twin brother: James Potter and his best friend/my friend Sirius Black had gotten bored and the only thing that seemed to amuse them was pranking me 24/7. I was about ready to rip their heads off. Though don't get me wrong, I love them both but sometimes they can get on my nerves.

"Where'd James and Sirius go?" Remus asked. I shrugged.

"Probably trying to get Lily to go on a date with James or something." I said.

"When are they going to learn that pestering her is not going to make her like him at all." Remus stated. I snorted.

"Probably never." I answered.

We all boarded the train and found an empty compartment, I sat across from Peter and Remus. A couple minutes later, my female friends walked into the compartment. Lily Evans and Alice Cooper had been my friends ever since our first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was almost seven years since then and we had only grown closer with time.

The three of us were all witches even though we had not come from the same background. Lily was what we call a muggle born, which means that her parents are not of magical decent. Whereas Alice and I are purebloods because both of our parents come from a long line of other pureblood wizards and witches.

This year we were the only girls in the seventh year girls dormitory and I was so excited. We were quite the strange trio of friends; I was outgoing, mischievous and loud, Alice was shy, quite and caring and Lily was very smart, a goody toe shoes (Not that that is bad or anything) and loyal.

Lily sat beside me and Alice sat across from her just as the compartment door opened and in walked James, his lips were swollen, his hair a little more messy than usual (If that was even possible.) and his clothes were crinkled. I had a pretty good idea where he had been. Along with Sirius though he didn't look like he had been snogging anyone. That was a first. He hadn't gained the title Hogwarts Playboy for nothing! For the past couple of years he has almost had a new girlfriend every week.

"Lily-Flower!" James exclaimed and sat down beside Lily. He tried to give her a hug but she pushed him away, glared at him and scooted as close to me as she could. Sirius snickered and took a seat beside me. He put his arm around my shoulder, which was perfectly normal so no one gave it a second glance, though it made my stomach flop.

"Don't call me that." Lily growled. Ever since first year James had been madly in love with Lily while she despised him.

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." Sirius said and laughed, but immediately stopped when Lily glared at him. Lily had a very scary glare.

"We'd better bet going to the prefect meeting." Lily said. James groaned.

"You can't neglect your duties, Potter. Your Head Boy now, as much as I wish you weren't. You have a job to do now get off your lazy arse and follow me." With that Lily strode out of the compartment. Like that was going to happen!

"What's got her panties in a knot." I asked.

"Probably the fact that James is Head Boy and they will have to spend a lot of 'quality' time together on rounds." Remus said making quotation marks with his fingers when he said quality. "Speaking of which we had better get going too."

The seventh year prefects this year were Alice and Remus, who dragged James with them to the meeting. That left me alone with Sirius and Peter. A slightly awkward silence fell.

"So, you guys excited for the welcoming prank this year?" I asked to which The two boys nodded enthusiastically.

"This one is going to be the best yet. " Sirius said proudly. Every year the Marauders (as the four boys liked to call themselves) would prank everyone in the school, including the professors. You see, they all love pranking, even sophisticated-quiet-book-loving-responsible Remus., who is the brains behind all the pranks. It started out just the four of them pulling lame first year pranks, then when second year came around they realized I too could pull a good prank. And so I became an honorary Marauder. We all gave each other nicknames in third year.

James is Prongs, Sirius is Padfoot, Remus is Moony, Peter is Wormtail and I am Softpaw,

The story to how we got these names is a little long, but I have time so I'm going to tell it. It all start with Remus being a Werewolf. Now before anyone goes and judges him I am going to clear a few things up. Remy is one of the most sweetest, smartest, kindest and insert-other-nice-things-you-can-thing-of-here-est guy I know. Him and his werewolf side are completely different. His werewolf side is viscous, violent and if it can't get anything to hurt or kill it will hurt itself which hurts Remy. Every night on the full moon he would be locked up inside an abandoned house outside of Hogsmead. The locals had taken to calling it the shrieking shack because every full moon they would hear Remus as a werewolf howl and cry as he hurt himself. It was terrible too say the least, so we came up with a plan to help. Our plan had been in affect for three years now and the professors who knew about Remy's furry little problem, as James had taken to calling it, were happy that he was coming back with less cuts than normal, but slightly confused as to why. I'll tell you why. In third year I had the brilliant idea to become animagus.

An animagus is a witch or wizard who can turn into a particular animal or magical creature at will. It is also illegal to be an animagus and not register with the Ministry of Magic. Oops, we may have forgotten to do that...Shhhhhhhhh!

Anyways, when we are in animagus Werewolf Remus thinks we are just animals and since he too is sort of an animal he doesn't hurt us and we can stop him from hurting himself. We all serve a purpose in keeping the werewolf at bay, Peter turns into a rat and helps us get into the Whomping Willow by touching a root at the base of the tree so the tree will not hit us with it's branches. James is a stag, Sirius is a large shaggy brown dog both of which are large enough animals to make sure Moony does not run away when we take him out. And last but not least comes me. I am a black cat. I normally distract werewolf Remus when he tries to chase after something, or I scout ahead to make sure no one is there, I come and go as quiet as a cat.

Basically we are named after our animagus form or for Remy, the fact that he is a werewolf. James is Prongs because of the prongs on his antlers, Remus is Moony because of the werewolf only comes out on the full moon, Sirius is Padfoot because the pads on the bottom of his paws, Peter is Wormtail because of his worm like tail and I am Softpaw because I was as quiet as a mouse. Pun intended. Now that that's cleared up, let's go back to present time.

"I need to go to the washroom, be right back." I got up from my seat and left the compartment in search of the washroom. I rounded a corner to run straight into someone's chest. I fell backwards onto my butt. I was about to apologize when I looked up and saw who it was.

"Carrow." I greeted coldly, getting off the floor. Alecto Carrow smirked.

"Well, look who it is. The potty girl!"She exclaimed. I rolled my eyes. Too say I hated her was an understatement. Ever since first year me and James had formed a twin-to-twin rivalry between us and Alecto

"You're still as uncreative as ever. Potty? Really? You couldn't think of anything else? That's like me calling you smart, it just doesn't work." I retorted. She scowled.

"Watch it Potter, this year is going to be a dangerous one."

I scoffed, "And you would know that because your a Voldemort supporter, right?" Her face turned red with anger.

"How dare you say the Dark Lord's name! You blood traitor!"

"I'd rather be considered a blood traitor than be one of Voldemort followers."

"Stop saying his name! You have no right."

"What afraid he might hear me? You know now that I think about it I'm not even sure he is a guy. I bet He is just a woman in disguise, I mean have you seen the robes he wears? They look down right feminine too me." I couldn't help but say that, but as soon as I finished speaking Alecto's wand was aimed between my eyes. I laughed.

"Hey look, I'm going cross eyed." I crossed my eyes trying to see the wand. It seemed to only enrage her. Alecto growled and lowered her wand, she wasn't going to hex me, I had called her bluff.

"Later loser." I said while smirking, I turned around and started walking away from Alecto when there was a loud BANG! I turned around to see Sirius standing behind Alecto, his wand pointing to where she had fallen to the ground. She seemed to be slowly growing feathers.

"Don't you ever let me see you about to curse someone when their back is turned, you cowardly chicken!" Sirius yelled. And a cowardly chicken she was. Along with the feathers Alecto was growing a beak. She squawked once before running away. I laughed.

"Thanks for saving me, I guess." I said To Sirius as he started walking towards me.

"No problem, it was fun." He gave me a lopsided grin, I felt my heart skip a beat.

"You have to teach me that spell. I can see many uses, especially with Malfoy." I smiled wickedly.

"Will do, but first we have to get to go back to the compartment." Sirius stood there for a few seconds starring into my blue and green eyes as the smile slowly slide of his face. I blushed when he didn't look away, I hated my eyes. That was the major thing I didn't like about myself, one was a really light blue, almost white and the other a deep green. I had gotten lots of people (mainly Slytherins) calling me a freak because of them. My friends claimed that they liked them but I had no idea why, they weren't magical or cool in any way.

The way he was looking into my eyes was new to me, it was a sort of blissful sort of (dare I say it) loving look. It made me blush a bit more. I suddenly realized how c;lose we were, just a couple inches away from each other. I kind of just wanted to lean in a kiss- No, I scolded myself. You can't just go thinking those things about you're brothers best friend. Besides I didn't like him that way, did I? I decided against kissing him; for the time being.

"Earth to Siri." I said using his nickname I had given to him and waving my hand in front of his face. He snapped out of it.

"Sorry, I zoned out there for a couple of seconds."

"I can see that." I laughed and we set off for the compartment.

I really hoped you liked it! Please R and R and tell me what you think! :) Sorry if it was a bit cheezy, but Oh well.