Ok don't judge to harshly but constructive criticism will do nicely, I have made it 7th year for the marauders because I need it to be set in 7th year however I have made it so James and Lily are not going out, yet. This was originally two separate stories but I am not that patient so I combined it into one long story! O I suppose I better mention that the HP world does not belong to me it belongs to JKR.
Chapter one: Plans
The Hogwarts castle was quite and most people were in their dormitories sleeping or lying awake talking. It was July and with N.E.WTs and O.W.L.s out of the way many people where talking about the up coming ball, the ball was to celebrate the end of term and also to say farewell to the 7th years. The Gryffindor common room was completely empty apart from three of the marauders who were talking in low voices by the fire. "So you two defiantly can't make it to the ball?" asked James for the 10th time.
"Look I told you, Peter will be in the hospital wing for three days after that prank backfired. And as for me it's a full moon tomorrow so you know I can't go." Replied Remus in a tired voice, he rubbed his tired eyes with his hands, he looked very pale and ill, his robes were hanging off of him and he looked as though he was wasting away. Sirius looked at his friend with a kind of sadness in his eyes "If you want I'll stay with you and we will all miss the ball."
James looked from Sirius to Remus and sighed he had been hoping to ask Lily to dance at the ball, but friends were more important "I'll miss the ball as well"
Remus looked at his two friends with thanks in his eyes, he would have said 'yes' to their proposal but he knew how much they wanted to go to the ball. So he simply shook his head and said "Don't be stupid, Padfoot I know you are dying to ask Savannah to the dance and Prongs I know you want to ask Lily. So you two just go and have a good time and I'll be fine, really."
Sirius sighed, he knew once Remus had made up his mind there was no changing it, so he smiled and said, "I'll bring you back something nice." Remus raised an eyebrow, what exactly could you bring back from a ball that was nice? He smiled and asked, "And what are you planning to bring back?" James laughed and pulled a small camera out of his bag and drummed his fingers on it, "How about some pictures of Snivelly after we pull the ultimate prank on him?"
Remus laughed, he didn't even object to the idea of pranking Snape at the ball, it was there last week at school and he knew that James and Sirius had a few more pranks to pull before they left.
Sirius laughed and looked over at the notice board, and remembered something, he grinned and said "Ok, I know you can't go to the ball, but how would you feel about one last trip to Hogsmeade as Hogwarts pupils?" Remus raised his eyebrow and asked, "What are you talking about?" James looked over to the notice board as well and then looked back to his fellow marauders "Padfoot you're a genius! Moony look at the notice board we have a trip to Hogsmeade during the day and the ball at night, so you could still go to Hogsmeade and get a few laughs." Remus smiled at his two friends, they were right he may not be able to go out at night because of his condition but that did not stop him going out in daylight. "Yeah, go on then one last trip before we have to say goodbye to Hogwarts." Sirius and James laughed, Remus looked at them for an explanation and James replied "Well it's not really goodbye for you, we all know you will come back and be a teacher."
Remus shook his head and sadly said "Who in their right mind would give someone with my condition a job?" Sirius looked at Remus as though the answer was obvious. "How about Dumbledore? He let you come to school didn't he? He might give you a job you could be Professor. Lupin." James and Sirius began to laugh and without thinking Remus said "Well you two could come back and be teachers as well, you could teach transfiguration James and Sirius you could teach er.. you could teach." Sirius pulled his brown hair out of his eyes and looked at Remus before grinning and asking, "What exactly could I teach Moony?" Remus gave an embarrassed look he could think of nothing that Sirius could teach because he was good at everything. "Well how about James teaches flying and you teach transfiguration? Then I could teach Defense Against the Dark Arts." He smiled at the prospect of them all in the teachers lounge laughing and joking, telling pupils off for doing what they shouldn't be, or in James and Sirius' case congratulating them on a good prank.
Sirius laughed "Moony we spent 7 years trying to get out of this school why exactly would we want to come back and teach? I mean I can see a Proffesor.Lupin, but can you see Professors. Black and Potter walking down the hall?" James laughed and said "He's got a point, I mean were not responsible enough to be teachers, as well as that I don't actually think they would let us back here after all the stuff we have done." Remus looked out the window at the night sky and smiled "Yeah I guess not, maybe I am destined to be the lone teacher, so if you two aren't teaching what will you do?"
James smiled and proudly said "I'm going into the family business, and dad said Sirius could have a job to if he wanted."
Sirius shook his head and said "Nah, my uncle left me a load of money when he died so maybe I'll start a joke shop or something, yeah you two could visit I could call it 'Marauders Treasure Chest.' It could have all the best pranks in it, I bet we could write a book and inspire a new generation of rule breakers." Remus looked at Sirius, it was one of those things when you didn't know if he was serious or not. "Well enough about the future how about the present, what have you two got planned for our last trip to Hogsmeade?"
James and Sirius looked at each other and finally realised something they had been waiting for since James turned 18 in March. They were all finally 18 and what better place to go when you 18 than the pub? "The three broomsticks!" they both shouted in unison. Remus sighed, he should have seen this coming they were going to get drunk. "Do you think that it's a good idea to get drunk before the ball?" James and Sirius both pulled a look of mock anger "You really don't think that much of us do you moony? Getting drunk before the ball? We were merely suggesting that we have a drink or two as mature grown up friends," James said innocently. Remus raised an eyebrow last time they went for an 'innocent drink' he had ended wasted in the girls bathroom wearing only his underwear and singing 'I will survive' with James and Sirius as backing singers.
"Only if you promise that it won't be like last time, I think we managed to drink all the fire whisky in the pub last time we went there and James wasn't even drinking!"
James laughed and said "No it won't be like last time because if all goes well the girls will be there and they will keep an eye on us." Sirius and Remus looked at James with mixed confusion and interest, what girls was he talking about? Sirius grinned before asking "And what girls might they be?" James sighed and wondered why he had such idiot friends "Do I have to explain everything? Lily and Savannah of course they will be in Hogsmeade to it's their last trip as well." He turned to Remus and smiled "I think they have a friend for you as well, someone called Madison from Ravenclaw." Remus smiled, he had often seen Madison in the library but he was always to shy to talk to her, what would she see in a werewolf? He sighed maybe a few drinks would loosen him up enough to say 'hello.'
"Well ok a couple of drinks but that's it, but if you two are gatterd at the ball that's your own fault because I won't be there to help you when you fall over or start dancing uncontrollably like last time." Padfoot and Prongs smiled and nodded in agreement, but something about the smile on their faces told Remus that they were only pretending to listen. A small beeping noise could be heard from the wrist of James he looked down to see his watch was glowing green and the time was flashing. "Where did you get that? Electrical things don't work at Hogwarts," said Remus with interest. James smiled as he showed them his present for finishing his N.E.W.Ts "It's not electrical, my dad made it, it's got a charm on it so the time flashes when you should be doing something," he said with a proud smile on his face. Remus looked a little confused and said "So what are you meant to be doing now?" James pressed a little button on his watch and a little miniature man stepped out of the watch and said "You lot should be in bed sleeping it's 3AM!" A second later the man climbed back inside the watch and Sirius looked at it in amazement "Cool I didn't know it did that." James smiled and was about to say something when he saw the look on Remus' face he stopped talking. "We really should be going to bed we have the trip and ball later on and we have to be awake in four hours."
Sirius looked at him as if he was mad "What are you talking about Moony? We are awake." Remus gave him a stern look "Yes, so we should go to sleep, what will Savannah and Lily think if you fall asleep half way through the ball because you have had no sleep?" Sirius and James exchanged glances and excepted defeat "Ok you win we'll go to sleep," they said together. Remus smiled and stood up, the three of them walked away from the fireplace and up the boy's staircase still talking about their plans for later that day.
They crept into their room quietly so they did not wake the other boy up and silently got changed. The lay in their beds without a word each thinking about someone different. James was thinking about Lily, Sirius was thinking about Savannah. And as he closed his eyes a smile spread across his face as Remus thought about Madison.
Ok thanks for reading you may have just zoned out and/or stopped reading halfway through. So if you made it this far well done you deserve a muffin (pulls out large basket of muffins and hands them out). Ok so I have loads more to write, please review and point out anything you would like to see, I pretty much have the whole story in my head but if you would like to add suggestions I would be glad put them in the story. Next chapter will be coming as soon as I write it, which should be soon depending on the amount of coursework I receive this week.