A New Start

"LILY!" Someone screamed behind her. She turned just in time to find her best friend run at her and catch her in a bone-crushing hug.

"Hey, Hest!" But Hestia had already spotted something shiny on her clothes.

"Oh My Merlin!" She exclaimed happily, pointing at Lily's Head Girl Badge, "Let's hope that the Head Boy is someone nice!"

"Look, Dumbledore will make someone sensible and nice as Head Boy, not someone out of their mind!" Lily replied, thinking about Potter. "Well, if you don't wanna miss the train, then come on!"

They found a compartment to themselves and, shortly after they had settled, were joined by their friends, Alice Prewett and Marlene Mckinnon. Lily left the compartment to go to the Prefects' compartment and set out their jobs for the train journey. She passed The Marauders' compartment where Potter was nowhere to be seen. 'Must be in a girls' compartment, showoff' She thought. When she reached the Prefects' compartment she found someone already there.

'But it's so early!'

She opened the compartment door and found the Hogwarts Prankster sitting there with parchment and quill. He looked up as she entered, "Well, now I know who I'm working with!" He said, pointing at her Head Girl Badge.

"What are you doing here?" She asked angrily, "And working with who?"

"I am doing my job-" 'For once' Lily thought "- and you are working with me!" Lily looked up, confused. "Why in the name of Merlin am I working with you?!"

James grinned with the mischevious glint in his eyes and took out the Head Boy Badge from his pocket. Lily looked at it with wide, disbelieving eyes. "Don't be ridiculous Potter! No one in their right mind would make you Head Boy!" Lily exclaimed with a bitter laugh. "Yeah, I still think someone Confunded Dumbledore." He said, slightly frowning, but quickly replaced it with a smile and Lily felt her heart melt.

'Wait, What?! Am I going mad?!'

James continued "I was wondering-" Lily braced herself, knowing what was coming "-whether you would be my friend, you know as we are going to have to work together, won't we?" Lily blinked, she thought he was going to ask her out... as usual.

"Sure!" She shrugged, thinking she ought to give him a chance, "But aren't you-" She was cut short as the Prefects started entering. When they had settled down, they stared at James, thinking as to what he was doing there. Remus, however, gave a thumbs up and winked at James, knowing there had been no fight and James grinned in response.

"Okay, so right now we are just going to give the timings of your strolls and then we can get back to our friends." Lily started.

"So here are the timings: ..." He gave them their timings and everybody left.

Lily was about to leave when James caught her wrist, pulled her into the compartment and closed the door. "Look, Evans, I'm sorry about what happened in the last 6 years. I just want to put our past aside and start a new friendship!" He said earnestly. It looked weird, James Potter, earnest.

"Alright, James" She emphasized his name and his eyes widened. 'He looks so cute when he is amazed! Wait! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!' She mentally scolded herself. What neither of them knew, was that their whole conversation had been heard by a certain Slytherin by the name of Severus Snape. He scowled as he saw Lily smiled at James and quickly hurried out of sight as she came out.

When she reached her compartment, her friends all looked at her and she smiled.

"Well, who is the lucky guy who is going to work with our precious Flower?" Hestia asked, not wasting any time.

"Ja - Potter." She said, a fake look of disgust on her face.

"You know Lils," Alice said, "I think you should give him a chance!"

"Yeah, he asked me whether I'd like to put our past aside and start a new friendship and I said fine."

"So is that the reason you almost said James instead of Potter?" Hestia asked, grinning cheekily at her best friend.

Lily scowled and said, "Never you mind!"

"Well I for one am delighted that you both are somewhat friends, I don't know if I can take another year of your nonsense about him and vice versa!" Marlene said, receiving a glare from Lily.

Just then, their compartment door was slammed open, revealing The infamous Marauders. Lily stood up and asked angrily, "What are you doing here?"

"What do you think we're doing here?" Sirius questioned back, the mischevious glint, identical to James', in his eyes.

"Get out!"

"You didn't answer my question!"

"I think you're here to get the beating of your life!" Hestia said, massaging her knuckles.

"Ah, but dear Hestia-" He dodged a punch at him, aimed by Hestia. He ran out of the compartment, followed closely by James, as Lily threw a tantrum at him. Snape was watching the show and got annoyed as Lily laughed at James. Sirius noticed him and nudged James in the ribs.

"Ouch! What's up now Padfoot?"

Sirius pointed in Snape's direction.

"Snivellus!" James said, smiling but the smile was quickly wiped off his face as he remembered something, "Sorry Padfoot, but-" He pointed at his badge.

Sirius, however, said,"Come on! The school hasn't even started yet!"

"Oh - alright!" James said in a defeated voice

They walked into their compartment and started to make a plan to prank Snape and after - what seemed like an eternity - they finally came up with one which was perfect.

Snape came into their compartment and glared at James.

"What do you want Snivellus? No Slytherins aloud in here!" James said angrily, returning his glare.

"What have you been-" There was a whoosh as everything went dark. Snape whimpered, knowing this was one of their pranks, and the lights were back on. He looked around to see the Marauders apparently holding back their laughs. His head ached, he put his hand over his and his eyes widened in horror. His hair was in a tight bun and there was slime all over it! He cleaned the slime, let his hair down and marched out of the compartment, his face red with anger and embarrassment

Once he was out, every single Marauder, including Remus, burst out laughing.

"Did you - see his face?!" Remus said, gasping for air.

"Hilarious!" James and Sirius said through tears of joy.

Snape entered the Slytherin compartment, his face twisted with fury, and saw his friends laugh.

"What?!"

"Nothing!" Replied Avery, though his face showed a complete different story.

Snape glared at them and sat down, noticing what he was wearing for the first time, and let out a high-pitched scream. He was wearing a pink tutu and his hair had been turned pink as well.

'I am going to kill them!' He thought and quickly changed his clothes and hair back to normal.

Lily and her friends heard yelling and were about to check what was going on, when Snape passed them in a pink tutu and pink hair, they burst out laughing and knew this had something - no everything - to do with the Marauders, and sure enough, after a few moments, came running the Marauders, laughing their heads off, including Remus and to their astonishment, their serious, trouble-stopping Head Girl was laughing as well.

"That was hilarious! How did you do it?" Lily asked.

They were surprised as to why she isn't scolding them. They told her about how they did it and were back in their compartment.

The rest of the train journey, everyone talked and laughed about how the Marauders had pranked Snape and soon Hogwarts was in sight and they changed into their robes.

I hope you like it! This is my first ever FanFiction and I love reviews! I will try to update frequently.

I don't own the Harry Potter characters but the plotline is mine!

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