1 The Best Year Yet
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters or scenes from the HP series. If I DID right now, I'd be skipping my education, living in Hawaii, and sitting by the sparkling ocean with a big corvette parked behind me. No, the HP characters belong to J.K. Rowling. No money is being made by this story. Too bad, huh? If there was, I'd have that corvette (
A thirteen-year-old boy sat there, laughing merrily. He had untidy black hair, and pale, sparkling blue eyes hidden behind black glasses. His name was James. James was a cute troublemaker, and he was popular too. That's what most of the girls thought of him and his best friend, Sirius. The 'cute popular boys'. Sirius had long black hair that went to the middle of his neck. That's how he liked it, and he wore it in a ponytail at the back of his neck. He also had charming blue eyes, and an infectious smile. Then there was Remus. Remus was strongly built, had short brown hair, and brown eyes. He was also the friend of James and Sirius, and very popular. Their last friend, Peter, was as far from cute and popular as you could get, had watery black eyes, a pointy nose, and squeaky voice… and was hopeless at magic. These four friends were the Marauders.
The Marauders attended a private school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Only children possessing magical prowess were selected to attend. James Potter was very intelligent. So were Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. Peter Pettigrew, however, was not. They were all pranksters in Griffyndor.
There was another, who wasn't really a Marauder, but could be quite a prankster at times. She was Lily Evans. This 13-year-old girl had auburn hair, worn in a bun or a braid. The most distinguishable feature of Lily was her emerald green eyes. She and the Marauders got along fine, that is, all but James. This is the story of the Marauders and Lily and how Lily showed them she could be just as good as they could.
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"Come ON, Remus, it's not my fault!" complained Sirius. "It was Peter! He screwed it up!"
"It wasn't me, it wasn't!" squeaked Peter.
"Both of you, stop!" roared Remus. "Most likely you both messed it up and are just blaming it on the other. The only thing missing right now is James. Where is he, by the way?"
"Oh- he went to Hogsmeade to get more Zonko products as usual," Said an invisible voice. "But he's back now!"
"James! Tell him- tell Remus- it wasn't me!"
"Remus, buddy," said the invisible James, "whatever it was, it wasn't Sirius."
"James, just because you are invisible doesn't mean I can't see right through you. We were working on our own batch of veritassum, and one of those tow," he shot a glare at Sirius and Peter, "screwed it up. So now we have a purple liquid that burns right through whatever you pour it on."
"Even better!" James was now visible, holding a silvery cloak, a bag of Zonko tricks, and a wide smile on his face. "Can you say Professor Craile's potions class? She'd go crazy! Mix it in with a little boomslang skin, she'll never know the difference until- BANG! Boomslang gives a 'boom' and burns right through her cauldron." Then Lily stepped in.
"What's so funny?" she asked. They looked amongst themselves, and laughed even harder. "Well, I told Snape to put a little elbow grease into his hair, I thought he knew what kind of grease I was talking about!" Now Remus cracked up all together. "ok, ok! Remus, it wasn't that funny! Actually, it wasn't funny at all. What'd you guys give him today?"
"Nothing yet!" said Sirius defensively.
James got right to the point. "Lily Evans. If we wanted you to know, we would've told you!"
"Well, gosh darn, Jamie!" Lily started, being sarcastic. "Well, in that case, goodbye!" She huffed out of the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Good, James, great! She might not be that bad to add to our forces, you know?"
"Yeah, well, whatever. Let's go jar that stuff. I don't want to talk about HER right now." That was that, and although Sirius tried really, really hard to provoke him, James wouldn't talk about Lily any more.
***
Lily was sitting on her bed, in her cozy Griffyndor dorm. She was thinking up things she could do to James Potter. Writing them down in a notebook, she had quite a few so far.
Turn his quills and ink fluffy and pink
Make ink spill all over his homework
Enchant his watch to always tell the wrong time
Turn his hair purple and green
Make his glasses 'oldies style'
Now, Lily was nobody to violence, so she'd never hurt him intentionally, of course. "Maybe I could inflate his bag to the size of a troll. Nah, too obvious." She was determined for James to accept her. "The way to get to him is to get to his friends, first," She thought. "Pettigrew will be no problem. Remus, maybe. But Sirius seems to not mind me. Then there's just James." She planned the order of what she'd do and when.
1)Pettigrew 3'o clock Saturday afternoon: Bucket of green slime on head when dorm door opens.
"This is too easy!" she thought. And when her planning was finally done, she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
***
James awoke that night, a sudden idea coming to him in his dreams. He crept out of his dorm, taking with him his Invisibility Cloak, wrapping it around him, and holding his wand ready. He went over to the door of the girls dorm. He muttered under his breath, "Alohamora," and the locked door opened up. He silently went over to the showers, found the one marked 'Lily' in curly letters, and whispered, "Livio!" and went out of the dorm, back into his own, snickering silently.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters or scenes from the HP series. If I DID right now, I'd be skipping my education, living in Hawaii, and sitting by the sparkling ocean with a big corvette parked behind me. No, the HP characters belong to J.K. Rowling. No money is being made by this story. Too bad, huh? If there was, I'd have that corvette (
A thirteen-year-old boy sat there, laughing merrily. He had untidy black hair, and pale, sparkling blue eyes hidden behind black glasses. His name was James. James was a cute troublemaker, and he was popular too. That's what most of the girls thought of him and his best friend, Sirius. The 'cute popular boys'. Sirius had long black hair that went to the middle of his neck. That's how he liked it, and he wore it in a ponytail at the back of his neck. He also had charming blue eyes, and an infectious smile. Then there was Remus. Remus was strongly built, had short brown hair, and brown eyes. He was also the friend of James and Sirius, and very popular. Their last friend, Peter, was as far from cute and popular as you could get, had watery black eyes, a pointy nose, and squeaky voice… and was hopeless at magic. These four friends were the Marauders.
The Marauders attended a private school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Only children possessing magical prowess were selected to attend. James Potter was very intelligent. So were Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. Peter Pettigrew, however, was not. They were all pranksters in Griffyndor.
There was another, who wasn't really a Marauder, but could be quite a prankster at times. She was Lily Evans. This 13-year-old girl had auburn hair, worn in a bun or a braid. The most distinguishable feature of Lily was her emerald green eyes. She and the Marauders got along fine, that is, all but James. This is the story of the Marauders and Lily and how Lily showed them she could be just as good as they could.
***
"Come ON, Remus, it's not my fault!" complained Sirius. "It was Peter! He screwed it up!"
"It wasn't me, it wasn't!" squeaked Peter.
"Both of you, stop!" roared Remus. "Most likely you both messed it up and are just blaming it on the other. The only thing missing right now is James. Where is he, by the way?"
"Oh- he went to Hogsmeade to get more Zonko products as usual," Said an invisible voice. "But he's back now!"
"James! Tell him- tell Remus- it wasn't me!"
"Remus, buddy," said the invisible James, "whatever it was, it wasn't Sirius."
"James, just because you are invisible doesn't mean I can't see right through you. We were working on our own batch of veritassum, and one of those tow," he shot a glare at Sirius and Peter, "screwed it up. So now we have a purple liquid that burns right through whatever you pour it on."
"Even better!" James was now visible, holding a silvery cloak, a bag of Zonko tricks, and a wide smile on his face. "Can you say Professor Craile's potions class? She'd go crazy! Mix it in with a little boomslang skin, she'll never know the difference until- BANG! Boomslang gives a 'boom' and burns right through her cauldron." Then Lily stepped in.
"What's so funny?" she asked. They looked amongst themselves, and laughed even harder. "Well, I told Snape to put a little elbow grease into his hair, I thought he knew what kind of grease I was talking about!" Now Remus cracked up all together. "ok, ok! Remus, it wasn't that funny! Actually, it wasn't funny at all. What'd you guys give him today?"
"Nothing yet!" said Sirius defensively.
James got right to the point. "Lily Evans. If we wanted you to know, we would've told you!"
"Well, gosh darn, Jamie!" Lily started, being sarcastic. "Well, in that case, goodbye!" She huffed out of the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Good, James, great! She might not be that bad to add to our forces, you know?"
"Yeah, well, whatever. Let's go jar that stuff. I don't want to talk about HER right now." That was that, and although Sirius tried really, really hard to provoke him, James wouldn't talk about Lily any more.
***
Lily was sitting on her bed, in her cozy Griffyndor dorm. She was thinking up things she could do to James Potter. Writing them down in a notebook, she had quite a few so far.
Turn his quills and ink fluffy and pink
Make ink spill all over his homework
Enchant his watch to always tell the wrong time
Turn his hair purple and green
Make his glasses 'oldies style'
Now, Lily was nobody to violence, so she'd never hurt him intentionally, of course. "Maybe I could inflate his bag to the size of a troll. Nah, too obvious." She was determined for James to accept her. "The way to get to him is to get to his friends, first," She thought. "Pettigrew will be no problem. Remus, maybe. But Sirius seems to not mind me. Then there's just James." She planned the order of what she'd do and when.
1)Pettigrew 3'o clock Saturday afternoon: Bucket of green slime on head when dorm door opens.
"This is too easy!" she thought. And when her planning was finally done, she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
***
James awoke that night, a sudden idea coming to him in his dreams. He crept out of his dorm, taking with him his Invisibility Cloak, wrapping it around him, and holding his wand ready. He went over to the door of the girls dorm. He muttered under his breath, "Alohamora," and the locked door opened up. He silently went over to the showers, found the one marked 'Lily' in curly letters, and whispered, "Livio!" and went out of the dorm, back into his own, snickering silently.