DISCLAIMER: everything is owned by J.K.ROWLINGS all I've done is written a plot.
DISCLAIMER: Lily's song is reworded version of 'I wonder' by Kellie Pickler and is owned by her
Chapter 1: Oops!
"God Potter your are such an arse" Lily Evans a beautiful, emerald eyed, 17 year old yelled across a large table pilled high with beautiful delicious smelling food.
"What are you talking about Evans I didn't do anything" James Potter said with a smirk on his face.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about! Look at my hair!" Lily exclaimed while holding out her dark purple hair, which was normally a deep red with rich golden natural highlights when the sun reflected from her lush locks. Lily's hair was her pride and joy along with her eyes. Her eyes were a deep green that made you feel like you were sinking if you looked for too long. The dark purple hair clashed with her green eyes and porcelain white skin. The hair although reasonable nice looking on others made Lily stand out like a sore thumb.
James honestly had no idea what she was on about. Yes he played pranks on her, but since the start of 7th year he decided that he wouldn't prank Lily Evans. Since the start of his seventh year was yesterday he knew that only one, maybe two people who could pull off a prank in the space of a day.
Turning around Sirius Black's and Remus Lupin's smirks at James and Lily concluded his suspicions.
"Honestly Lily I didn't do it" James pleaded to Lily "But I have some idea of who did" James shot a daggers at the now sniggering Sirius and Remus.
Lily missed the daggers but caught on the words Potter was saying to her.
"So you didn't do it" Lily asked suspiciously as James shook his head in answer "then that only leaves" Lily said as she turned to the still sniggering pair situated behind her and Potter.
"Remus John Lupin! Siruis Alexander Black! You undo this right now!" Lily yelled at the two boys who were back pedalling away from the furious girl.
Unfortunately Remus and Sirius happened to be sitting down on a bench and so they ended up on the ground in front of a flaming purple hair girl, with her emerald eyes flashing dangerously.
James was now laughing at the two guy's misfortune as he knew from first hand experience what it was like to be on the receiving end of Lily's famous red head anger.
"You two are in for it now" James said between laughs.
Lily rounded on him "you obviously would have known about this so you should probably join these two begging for mercy" once again giving James a look of pure hatred that Potter had become used to over the last 6 years.
"Oh! But my Lily-Flower, I had no idea" James said with sincerity.
"Sure." Lily drawled sarcastically "Hello I wasn't born yesterday." Lily hollered "Black lives with you and I know that Remus is over your house most of the holidays every holiday. I am not blonde and I'm not purple haired either. So turn it back NOW!!!" Lily roared at the now three frightened boys.
"Lily you are the best charms witch of the year, surly you can figure this out" James pointed out to Lily.
"Don't call me Lily, POTTER" Lily spat once again rounded on James angrily, and stalked out of the great hall. James and Lily had never been friends from the day they met. Even acquaintances would be stretching their relationship thin. To put it bluntly they were mortal enemies and had been for the last 6 years they had known each.
Lily Evans, James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin all attended the famous Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, head mastered by the most powerful wizard of their age: Albus Dumbledore. The school offered courses to teach children from the age of eleven onwards how to control their magic and to guide them into preparing themselves for a life in the wizarding population.
Along with these four many other children attend Hogwarts to learn from the best teachers. Some of these children include Lily's best friends Isidora Kapolisk, Joanna 'Jo' White and Alice Rounka.
Isidora was a muggle born like Lily. She had dark naturally tight curly hair and dark, almost black eyes which sparkled with intelligence and fun if you look deep. She wasn't short and she wasn't tall she was of a medium height. Because of her Greek heritage she inherited the dark olive skin that her friends envied. She was shy, quiet and studious on the outside but deep down and when at home she was a wild child who loved fun and adventure.
Jo was a pureblood and was on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a chaser – to the misfortune of Lily, Back and Potter were also on the team. Jo had shoulder length blonde hair, which was often kept in a pony-tail. she was the taller of the girls and had sun tanned skin from her days of Quidditch and a slight freckle patch across her nose. She was the least girly in the group and loved to rather discuss Quidditch tactic with Potter, than talked about boys and hair and all that 'girl stuff' as she puts it.
Alice was also a pureblood and was currently going out with Frank Longbottom. She has baby blue eyes and a motherly comforting bearing that made everyone run to her for help. Lily and her were of the same height, maybe a millemiter in deifference. She also had a light completion like lily but she had a freckles on her cheeks and across the bridge of her nose.
These four girls also happen to be the most sought after girls of the school. Although Alice and Lily were off limits because Alice was already going out with someone and a beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, which required quiet a bit of muscle. Lily was not going out with anyone but everyone knew that Lily was James Potter's territory. If anyone said or hinted that they like Lily James would have a little talk which soon ensured that the person rarely talked to Lily again in any other than friendly words. But none of this could stop the boys admiring all four of the girls as they walked past in the hallway leaving their fragrances of coconut, Autumn leaves, fresh parchment and a homely cooking scent.
James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin made up a small group within the school they were the 'all great, all powerful, all sexy' – according to Sirius – Maruaders. They were the pranksters, the lovers and the smartest boys in the school. All three of the boys had known each other from the start of their education at Hogwarts. There was another boy in the Marauder clan but he had dropped out in fifth year after completing his owls and not gaining enough to go on. This fourth member was a small boy of the name of Peter Pettigrew. The other Marauder sent him weekly owls to keep him up-to-date with the occurrences at Hogwarts.
Anyway back to the Marauders
Sirius Black was a womaniser and never will stop according to him because there were too many beauties to be strapped down to just one for the rest of his life. He had silky black hair which was of medium length enough to be roughed up in a sexy way as though he had spent most of the day in a salon. He had storm grey eyes and a tall posture with broad shoulders, which were needed since he was a beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, along with Frank Longbottom.
James Potter was also on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, but as a seeker. James' hair looked as it does every time he get off the broom, flying in all directions even when combed it never stayed flat. His eyes were hazel filled with fun and laughter.
Remus Lupin was the puzzle of the group. He had shaggy golden hair which the girls in the school swooned over. His eyes were fun and loving on the outside, but it was really a mask to the pain that had raged in him everyday since he was four.
See when Remus Lupin was four he was playing in the woods one night on a full moon and was bitten by a werewolf. From then and forever, on full moons, once every month Remus would turn into a werewolf.
The other three boys found out in their third year when they followed Remus on a full moon night. Remus had made an excuse each month about family sickness. Firstly himself, then his mother, then his father and so on. In the end his mother had died three times, his father had had the chicken pox four times and his uncle and aunty had both gone blind, lost a limb and suffered from many other ailments. The three marauders soon caught on and decided to follow their friend one night only to find out that he was a werewolf. The boys now knew why their friend never told them the truth and so set to work to help him. Since a werewolf was only dangerous to humans all three of the third years boys became animagi – changed into an animal at their free will. Sirius was a large black dog, Peter was a rat and James was a stag. From these creatures the boys gained their names Sirius - Padfoot, Peter – Wormtail, Remus – Moony and James – Prongs.
James was walking back to the Gryffindor common room dragging his feet behind him. He knew he had to do it. He didn't want to but Remus forced him to. I didn't even do anything it was all him and Padfoot he thought sourly. He trudged into the empty common room and irritably walked up the girl's dorm room's stairs. Normally the stairs would have formed a slide and made James make a bumpy ride to the bottom of the common room. But this time they let him through no worries. James pushed open the large oak door and was marvelled by the neatness of the room. Nothing was on the floor and the shelves had clean and orderly nick-knacks, school stuff and books lined uniformly.
Lily wasn't in the room. He looked left and right and turned around in confusion. He was sure that she walked in here. He turned to walk back out of the room when he saw a door with a crack of light underneath it. The light was disrupted by a shadow of someone walking in front of the door. The silhouette disappeared and James made his way to the door. With his hand on the door brass knob he heard the most beautiful music he had ever heard and it was coming from inside that door. The beautiful music was soon followed by a sweet melody drifting from the room
Sometimes I think about you
Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinking about me
And would you even recognise the woman your big sister has grown up to be
As I look in the mirror
and all I see are your brown eyes staring back at me
they're the only thing
you've never given to me at all
oh I hear the weather's nice in Nirvana
there is sunny skies as far as I can see
if you ever come back home to Edinburgh
I wonder what you'd say to me
I think about how it ain't fair
You weren't there to braid my hair
like sisters' do
you weren't around to cheer me up,
help me dress for my witch school prom
like sisters do
do you think I didn't need you here?
To hold my hand?
To dry my tears?
Do you ever miss me through the years at all?
oh I hear the weather's nice in Nirvana
there is sunny skies as far as I can see
if you ever come back home to Edinburgh
I wonder what you'd say to me
The angelic voice faded into sobs as the person cried into the shower. James stood there, feet rooted to the spot, a lump in his throat and tears fogging up his glasses. Her sister? Nirvana? Weren't there to cheer her up?
Later in potions Lily emerged looking as ravishing as always. A disgruntles Sirius shot a look at Remus who was silently congratulating at Lily who had now foiled Sirius' plans.
"how come the charm didn't work?" Siruis asked to a smiling Remus.
"Duh!" Remus replied as though it was obvious. "didn't you listen to James?" Mooney asked his disgruntled friend while looking at the other. Prongs was staring at the worn desk in front of him and humming. Remus was shocked. James had not sung since… Remus was broken out of his reminiscing by Sirius.
"do I ever?" Sirius replied to Mooney's rhetorical question.
"well no. but anyway. She's the smartest witch in the school and her best subjects are charms and potions.".
"oh yeah that's why we didn't give her the potion. She would have noticed it off the boil" Sirius exclaimed with remembrance of the same conversation that had been discussed in Sirius' room at the Potter house.
Isidora was silently waiting for the teacher to arrive before they could start the lesson when a familiar tune reached her ears. She looked to her right at Lily. She was laughing at one of the other Gryffindor's jokes but Is noticed her bloodshot eyes and the slight dampness of her hair. She looked to her right and saw Jo reading a Quidditch magazine about the new upcoming Quidditch players of the next season. She heard the one voice she always thought about and turned around the see Sirius and Remus discussing something under their breaths. James was staring at his desk as though it contained the answers to the world's problems. And he was humming. Isidora was scared. How did James know that tune? And how did he find it? Before Is could ask Lily or James the teacher ambled in.
The chatter died down as the professor Slughorn, a young overweight professor arose from his place behind the large wooden work desk and addressed the class.
"I would first of all like to congratulate the two new heads of the school" Slughorn said although the heads were being announced at dinner that night.
"Ms. Evans and Mr. Potter congratulations" this warm acknowledgement was met with a roar of screaming and shouting from James and Lily.
"No way how did he become a head boy!"
"With her, they want me to get along with HER!"
James and Lily howled out in unison and continued to row with each other.
"Ah right. Well can you two please sort this outside the class room" Professor Slughorn ordered Lily and James as they pointed their wands at each other, after some rather heated arguing. James and Lily took a seat in their respective places and waited for the class to end before they started screaming bloody murder… again.
"Headmaster Dumbledore has asked me to use this cup" Slughorn stated as he lifted a plain old cup for everyone to see "to pick partners as he wants people to get to know others outside of their groups. This cup has been charmed to choose the two people who know nothing about each other"
"Everyone write your name on the small piece of parchment that I have left on all your desks" Slughorn cleared his throat to gain the attention of all whose interest had strayed to the piece parchment. "And come up and place your name in the cup." Slughorn finished with a huff as everyone had once again returned their attention to their pieces of parchment.
Each person had placed their names in the cup and now waited anxiously for the results and their rest of the year partner. One Slytherin tried to charm the cup to make partners to be friends but the cup flew back the curse and another at the seventh year girl. She was sent to the infirmary after being made into wood and having a chalice look about her. She was still who and who shouldn't be friends when they had strapped her down on the hovering stretcher. The last peope she declaraed friends were James Potter and Lily Evans. After her proclamation everyone cracked up and rolled about the classroom in laughter.
Lily was sitting next to Is with Jo and Alice together on the desk next to them. They all exchanged slightly worried and sad smiles while holding each other's hand tightly. Each girl understood the potions but it was the partners that had scared each of them. From their very first potions lesson the girls had sat next to each other and now they were being separated. Each girl still remembered their first lesson in the dank and dark classroom.
Flashback:
Three younger versions of Lily, Jo, Isidora and Alice ambled into the gloomy and damp classroom and sat down on two front seats in the middle of the classroom and the two behind them. They were the first in the class because Lily didn't want to be late. All four girls were fascinated by the castle, the moving stairs, talking paintings, walking statues, the teachers and everything else in their new home.
The classroom had a cold, dark grey stone floor and a darker shade of stone walls. Along all the walls were store cupboards filled with ingredients for potions. Some cupboards were locked and the 'dead' ingredients moving and shaking the shelf. At the front of the room was a large black work desk which contained a small cauldron on the fire to one side and a set of drawers on the other.
While the quartet were chatting the class had filled in and were sitting in their own chairs and talking amongst themselves waiting for the teacher. After a while of waiting the teacher walked in and sat down behind his desk. He was quiet small and had a pot belly and very greasy and messed up light blonde hair. Although he was small he was cruel and callous.
Professor Tkatz set up his speaking podium at the front of the class and pulled out some very crinkle and worn notes out of his briefcase. Starting his speech about how dangerous the art of potion making was and warning us the listen to him and obey all rules within the class room and never be late.
Just as he mentioned the word late the door crashed open, spilling some of the cupboard's contents on the floor and around the cupboard. A foursome of boys sauntered in and looked around the classroom at the appalled faces. The boys: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. Flashed award winning smiles and sat down at the back two desks. Tkatz marched over to the four boys, anger dripping from every pore in his body. The boys looked unaffected and continued talking among themselves.
The professor was standing over them before they had noticed him. Tkatz was very red in the face, almost purple and he was breathing heavily.
The young boys looked at their comical potions professor with laughter in their throats.
"WHY ARE YOU SO LATE?" he thundered to the foursome
"We had some problems getting here" James shrugged
"SO YOU SLEPT IN?" Tkatz screamed at the four boys in outrage. All four boys stood staring as though he was bursting their ear drums for no reason.
"Pretty much" replied a smiling Sirius unconcerned at his teacher's anger. He'd seen angrier people at home and frankly this pint sized teacher had too amusing appearance to be taken seriously.
The teacher took some deep breathes handed out four detentions and continued with their first class.
The cup sparked to life waking the girls out of their memories. Smoke was issuing from the to of the chalce and two names appeared in red
'Isidora Kapolisk and Sirius Black'
The next set of names Lily knew as well and felt sorry for the quiet boy
'Remus Lupin and Joanna White'.
Lily was feeling sorry for both her quiet friends Is and Remus, who had been stuck with two of the loudest people in the entire school.
Many names later – with many Slytherin and Gryffindor pairings – Lily's name appeared and her worst fear had come true
'Lily Evans and James Potter'
Everyone swivelled around to stare at the two most popular people in the school who happened to be the two biggest enemies Hogwarts had seen since Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor were around.
Lily and James stared at each other in shock.
I do to know Potter. He is a selfish, obnoxious, slacker who has no regard for anyone but himself.
I do to know Evans. She has a temper problem, no sense of humour and is a frigid bookworm. He thought angrily forgetting about his earlier compassion for the girl.
"Right today we will be brewing de-aging potions, everyone the directions are on the board. Good, good right get to work, have fun" Slughorn told the class with a smile.
Slughorn's voice broke everyone out of their trances and shocks over who they had been partnered with. Everyone apart from Lily and James, though that soon changed.
"Potter its three maggot babies"
"Evans it's four maggot babies"
"Three" Lily chucked in the chopped up maggot babies.
"Four" James argued as he also chucked in his maggot babies.
"Oops!" the both said in unison as the potion began to bubble and spill over the edges.
Before they could run Lily and James were both hit by the supped up de-aging potion, which was only meant to changed them back a few months, but nothing happened. They stared at each other covered in dark purple muck and kept on screaming. Professor Slughorn quickly dismissed the class and magiced the spoiled potion off of the head students.
A puff of purple filled the air and instead of two 17 year old students, on the ground there were two sleeping newborn babies wrapped in blankets. One had dark red hair with a slight curl on her forehead and was wrapped in a soft pink blanket with animals dancing on it. The other had black hair sticking up and everywhere and was wrapped in soft blue blanket with little flying broomsticks on it.
The professor stared at the two babies which had just replaced the arguing heads of the school. Slughorn picked up the two children and rushed to Dumbledore's office.
xxlouie