So this is a story about stuff. Each chapter will be based in a week so there will be about 45 chapters. I have such an amazing life that I decided to research loads about the year this is set in (1977/1978) including when all the full moons take place. And have pages full of fashion, music and other important things that happened in that time saved onto my computer. I also have about two pages about each of my seven main characters. I have planned out this story in advanced so I know where I'm going with it, but if you have any epic ideas tell me please because some of my ideas are rubbish. Anyway I hope you enjoy and sorry it's a tad long, 9 full pages is quite a lot. xx


"Come on kids." Dad shouted up the stairs "Time to go."

My sister and I hurtled down the staircase glad to be going back to England after spending practically the whole summer in France. My whole family is French but my dad married an English Muggle-born making my sister and I only half French and also Half-bloods. Luckily for me we were brought up in England so we don't have the accent, not that I don't like it, I just don't think I would suit it.

Once we reached the kitchen and joined the rest of the family congregated around the fire place I bent over catching my breath, Merlin you would think the Gryffindor Seeker would be fitter than this, well that's what a summer of your Grandmother's cooking does to you.

My dad went first, he made his way down the line of all our relatives saying goodbye to them all before collecting his bags and stepping into the fireplace. "Rose Cottage!" He shouted while throwing the floo power into the hearth beneath him. He then disappeared in to the green smoke that surrounded his body.

Next it was my sisters' turn. She said goodbye to everyone, tears forming in her eyes, she is such a girl. She then proceeded to step into the fire with her bags and disappear into the green smoke as she too shouted "Rose Cottage."

Finally it was my turn. I walked down the line saying goodbye to all my relatives with a hug, they were all cold to me unlike my sister. Why I hear you ask? Well I'm an exact replica of my mother, I'm tall and slender with long blond hair that falls in tight ringlets unless I spend ages on it trying to tame it and sky blue eyes the opposite of my dad's short, brown straight hair and green eyed family.

When I reached my Great Aunt Bessie who was slouched in her armchair I lent over to hug her. Surprisingly she hugged back with a tight embrace and whispered so quietly I had to strain to hear "This year you'll find love, but grab it before it's too late." I pulled back and smiled down at her. She apparently has the inner eye or whatever you call it but I've never believed in that rubbish and I'm not about to.

"Rose Cottage." I shouted once I was standing in the fire place clutching onto my bags. The familiar feeling of being tugged pulled me away from France and back to England where the people I truly loved were.

Tumbling out of the fire place I landed on the floor face first knocking over a vase that my sister had painted a few years back with a crash. Lucy, being the stuck up cat she is, jumped down from her spot on top of my bags to my back then proceeded to use my body as a bridge to the clean carpeted floor of the sitting room so as not to get her white paws dirty, I sometimes wonder about that cat.

Around me a chorus of laughter went up, it defiantly sounded like there were more than two people, and one sounded a lot more like a bark that a human laugh. "Dad" I wined. "What Sirius doing here?"

"Well, why don't you ask him then?" Dad replied

I looked up from the ground to find Sirius stand directly in front of me arm outstretched towards me. I took his hand and he pulled me to my feet.

"Well I found out you were coming back today." Sirius stated.

"And you just decided that you would come round my house to annoy me?" I asked while pulling my bags out of the fire place.

"Nope." Sirius replied popping the p. "I decided that I would come round your house to take you to Diagon Alley to get your supplies as I know you haven't got them yet." He explained.

"Wait." I looked at him in confusion. "How do you know I haven't got them already?"

"Lily told me." He then proceeded to narrow his eyes at me. "How come she's been getting letters from you practically every other day and I only got one letter through the whole holiday, and it was only to tell me that you couldn't make it to the Potter's summer dance?"

"Umm." I looked down at my feet avoiding Sirius' glare. "I was busy?" It came out more like a question than a statement.

"Yeah, well, at least Lily let me read all the letters." Sirius blurted out.

"No she didn't." I replied. We were now walking around my house dropping off my bags in my room and picking up my purse before heading down to the kitchen where my dad tossed me a bag of money to buy supplies with.

Sirius was still rambling on as we walked out the door and down the lane. "Any way I still can't believe you didn't write to me, your best friend." I rolled my eyes at that. "A whole summer without, wait." Sirius said stopping me in my tracks. "Where are we going?"

"To the local Apparating point." I explained.

"Why Disapparation when" Sirius said whiles grabbing my hand and dragging me back the way we had come. "You can travel in style." He finished with a flourish gesturing to a huge motorbike parked outside my house.

How did I not see that I wondered. "Merlin you got one." I exclaimed while examining the bike.

"Yep." Sirius replied, once again popping the p, while shrugging on the leather jacket that was draped over the handle bars. "Well are you going to get on or just stand there and stare?" He asked.

"Yep" I exclaimed before running round to the side of the bike and clambering on to it, with quite a lot of help from Sirius I'm embarrassed to add. It not my fault the bikes really big.

"Are you on?" Sirius asked from in front of me.

"Yep." Was my replied as I wrapped my arms around his waist.

"Okay, let's go." With that he revved the engine and we were off to London.

We finally pulled up on the street just outside the Leaky Cauldron. Sirius hopped off the bike then helped me clambered off, see the difference while Sirius just hops of gracefully I need all the help I can get and I still clamber like a clumsy idiot.

"Come on." Sirius said while grabbing my wrist and dragging me into the Leaky Cauldron. "Everyone's in there already."

"Wait even Lily?" I asked drawing to a halt pulling Sirius with me.

"Yep." Was Sirius' reply. "When James and I found out you still needed to get your supplies we organised this little shopping trip as we too need to get ours and James being James had to invite Lily along under false assumptions that she is there to see you not for him to pine after."

"And she believed him?" I questioned.

""Not for a second." Sirius said as he began to drag me to the Leaky Cauldron once again. "But she still came. Just to see you was her explanation but I believe that James has a little something to do with it."

Inside the Leaky Cauldron I looked around for my friends however I couldn't see them in our usual spot, yep we have a spot, have done since back in the holiday before second year.

"They're in the far corner." Sirius said in a hushed tone from behind me. I looked over and there they all were just like Sirius had said huddled over the table. "Let's give them a scare."

I nodded my head in a response and we tiptoed over to the table. When we got there Sirius and I exchanged glances before yelling at the top of our lungs and assort of different things.

They jumped out of their skins, not literally as that would be pretty weird, before sending us the evilest of glares. Merlin they looked angrier than Mary if you wake her before ten on a weekend.

"Alice." Lily practically screamed while jumping up and engulfing me in a tight hug. "Oh gosh I have missed you so much."

"But we wrote every day." At this Sirius snorted beside me.

"Yes, but still a whole holiday without seeing my best friend, how do you think I coped?" Lily asked as we pulled out of the hug. Remus and James were now standing too but Peter was engrossed in the pie sat in front of him. "Come on, you got your supplies list?" I nodded. "All right lets go shopping." Lily exclaimed excitement covering her face as she pulled me out of the Leaky Cauldron and away from the boys who were all about to say something and were not very happy about not being able to say it from the looks on their faces.

Two hours later and we had spent the first hour in the bookshop, don't ask me why all we need from there is school books but Lily wants to start her own library in our dorm so decided to buy as many as she could, and the second hour was spent buying all the different knick-knacks we needed. Now we were standing opposite each other having our new robes fitted. Both our parents had decided that since it is our last year we deserve a spanking new uniform.

"What do you think of James?" Lily asked. "Well I mean do you think he's matured or anything?"

I looked at her eyebrows raised. "Is someone developing a little crush?"

She blushed crimson. "No it's not that, just while we were waiting for you he was ever so nice, it was just little things he did like ask how my holiday had been and what I was looking forward to this year. Stuff that he never ever asked me before." She sounds so innocent right now while looking down at her feet. Innocent and confused. "And another thing, he didn't ask me out once, can you believe that?"

At this a small laugh left my lips. "Actually I can." She looked back up at me. "It's obvious that he was finally realised that showing of isn't going to win you so he has converted to different methods. And they seem to be working."

Lily stared at me mouth hanging open before picking up her bag that was beside her and flinging it at me, this is when the Seeker skills come in use. I caught the bag and flung it back at her.

We paid for our robes and headed out of the shop towards Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour where we had planned to meet the boys. I looked down at my watch. "Shoot."

"What?" Lily asked.

"I promised dad that I would be back five minutes ago, he is going to be so angry." I turned and headed off towards a disappearing point. "Tell the boys I'm sorry and I'll see you all in three days on the Hogwarts express." I ran off not waiting for a reply.

Dad was furious when I got home. I was only fifteen minutes late, it's not my fault that everyone left their start of school shopping until three days before we have to be off to school. Oh well at least I've got everything and all my sister's things as well, got a couple of Galleons out of it.

It was finally the first of September and we were all off to Kings Cross. My sister's trolley was piled high with trucks contain enough clothes to clothe a nation. I however had two trunks the bigger filled with clothes the smaller with all my supplies on top of them sat at sat basket with a very sleepy with Lucy inside.

"Okay time to go." My dad said and we all filled onto platform 93/4.

I let out a sigh, whiles looking around at all the people saying goodbye. My dad went off to help my sister on to the train and boy does she need all the help she can get with all those bags. Dad didn't really need to go and help her with all the help she is getting from the boys in her year. Last year she was just a scrawny little third year and now's she is a fourth year getting all the attention from the boys.

My dad had finally finished attempting to help her onto the train and was making his way over to me. "I remember the exact same thing happen to you in your fourth year." He said once he reached me." I rolled my eyes. "Now don't pull that face. If I remember correctly before the summer you were this short shy girl and over the summer you shot up and became a tall not so shy young Madame. We were trying to get your trunk on board and these four young gentle men came rushing up to help." Time for a quick trip down embarrassment road, I hope no one is listening. "Now let's see one was short and plump with sandy hair, one with a darker shade of hair scars on his face but eyes filled with such raw emotion. A tall lanky one, defiantly the tallest one of the group, messy dark hair and glasses. And then there was the one who introduced himself to me. I thought to myself that young lad is going to be a strapping young man one day, what was his name again something like serious."

"Merlin dad you have the worst memory ever he was only round our house three days ago, his name's Sirius."

"Present." Said a husky just rolled out of bed voice from behind me.

"Wow just woken up or what." I said looking Sirius up and down, he did indeed look like he just woken up.

"Morning sir." Sirius said to my father before turning to me. "Not meaning to break up the family chat the train is just about to leave."

I looked over at the red train which was indeed like Sirius said about to leave. "Ohh okay, dad I love you and will see you soon." I stumbled out before running after Sirius to the train, I sure do have a habit of leaving people before they can say goodbye back.

Sirius leapt onto the now moving train and reached his arm out to me grabbing my wrist and pulling me up after him. We toppled backwards landing in a heap on the floor of the Hogwarts Express.

Looking up I realised we were surrounded by other students just standing and staring at us.

I looked back down at Sirius who was looking straight up at me. He wet his lips then said in a low voice that everyone could still hear "This is an extremely sexual position we are in right now."

I realised that what he said is in fact true. My legs were either side of his waist straddling him and my hands were placed on the ground beside his head holding myself up.

Our eyes met once again and we eruptive into laughter filling the carriage with the sound. The students standing around stared at us as if we were mental.

I rolled off Sirius and we stood up together. Sirius waved at the other students before walking off me close behind. A chorus of giggles followed Sirius as he walked down the carriage.

"I'll never get girls with their giggling and all." He remarked

I rolled my eyes. "Seriously Sirius you are a gigantic idiot."

"How?" He asked when I didn't answer and walked off Sirius followed close at my heel asking constantly the same question.

We stopped outside one of the compartments, the one we usually sit in. Sirius was still asking me "How." I pulled open the door expecting to find my group of friends but Peter was the only one there spread out over two seats.

"Where is everyone?" Sirius asked.

"Head meeting." Was Peter's muffled answerer before he went back to stuffing his face with sweets.

"Wait." I said stopping Sirius ad he made his way to a seat. "I know Lily is Head Girl and Remus is a prefect but why would James be there?"

"He is Head Boy." Both Sirius and Peter said together at practically the same time.

"What?" I practically screamed causing both boys to flinch "When were you planning on telling me?"

"We thought you." Peter squeaked. "But then again Lily didn't know, you should have seen her face when she found out. Remus caught it on camera."

"Such friends you are." I muttered. Sirius stuck his tongue out at e before stuffing his face with more sweets.

We spent the first half hour of the train journey swapping summer stories but as soon as Sirius and Peter began exchanging prank plans I started to drop off falling asleep very quickly.

"Alice." Someone whispered in my ear "Time to wake up." I rolled over and buried my face in the chair.

"Well that obviously didn't work, let me try." Said a deep voice.

"James, don't you dare." Said a different feminine voice.

"Lily don't worry, I'm not going to kill her." James said "Anyway Sandy didn't wake her so it's my turn to try."

No one said anything after that I think they must be gesturing to one another or something.

"ALICA!" James shouted causing me to shoot up and tumble to the floor with a crash. "See I told you I could wake her up." James said smugly before pulling me to my feet.

"Come on Alice." Lilly said as she grabbed my hand and tugged me off the train. "We have been trying to wake you for ages."

"We had to send Sirius, Remus and Peter ahead to keep a carriage from leaving." Sandy butted in her short black hair shining in the moonlight. "Sirius suggested we carried you but Lily wouldn't let him as she thinks he may drop you as a joke." I would have been fine with Sirius carrying me if it meant more sleep.

"No. I do not think that." Lily exclaimed from the other side of me. And that was the start of the first of Lily and Sandy's 'No you can't, yes I can' arguments.

We finally got to the carriage and clambered in. Lily and Sandy finally agreed to disagree and left the carriage in a comfortable silence.

The carriage drew to a halt and we all hopped out. The Marauders walked on ahead discussing something in hushed voices, probably their start of year prank. We girls followed them a couple of meters behind. I looked up at the boy's backs and realised Sirius was walking practically in front of me.

"My legs are tired." I muttered to the girls my eyes glued to Sirius' back calculating the distance.

Lily followed my eyes. "Go on then." She muttered back when she caught onto my plan.

I sent a grin in her direction before charging towards Sirius and launching myself onto his back.

Sirius let out a startled grunt and staggered forwards under the sudden change in weight. "What the hell Ally?" he shouted back at me surprise evident in his tone.

"Well Sirius, my legs are tired." I explained innocently.

"Right then." Was Sirius' replied before hurtling up to the castle me hanging onto him for life screaming in his ear.

Everyone was still laughing when they caught up with us. I had slid off Sirius' back and he was leaning against the wall trying to get his breath back.

We all spun round in surprise when we heard someone clear their throat behind us and came face to face with our Head of House Professor McGonagall. She glared at us with the menacing glare that only she can create but Lily can come extremely close to.

"The sorting is about to start." Her stern voice rang out echoing around the deserted corridors. "I expect better from you Miss Evans." She directed at Lily who was stuttering an apology and had turned a beetroot red. "And Mr Potter, you are Head Boy now, so please try acting like it." James hung his head and Sirius, Peter, Sandy and I started giggling under our breath. "Now you two go and sit down the end of the Gryffindor table ready to make the first years feel at home." James and Lily scampered off as Professor McGonagall had told them. "Now you four." She said turning on us. "Do not laugh while your class mate are being reprimanded otherwise its detention for a week." We all cowered in shame. "Remus how is your mother?" She asked turning to Remus who had been standing silently.

"She is fine." Was his reply.

"Good, now all of you into the Great Hall and none of you are to communicate of distract our Head Boy and Girl from their duties." She ordered.

"What does reprimanded mean?" Peter asked as we walked into the Great Hall.

Sirius rolled his eyes at me while Remus answered in a gentle voice "It is a posh word for being told off."

We sat in our usual seats at the center of Gryffindor table. Sirius looked down at James who was staring longing at us. "I love you." Sirius mouthed at James which due to the amount of girls staring at him earned a chorus of giggles. James mouthed it back then turned back to watch the sorting.

The sorting was the same as always, some people went straight to their house whiles others took ages.

When the food finally arrived after what seemed like centuries I dived straight in and started scoffing it down, after a Holliday full of eating French food this always happens. Everyone knows to never disturb me at the start of year feast after a particle nasty incident involving Peter and a cheese cake.

After the feast we made our way up the staircases to the seventh floor, sometime I hate where Gryffindor common room is placed. Outside the common room there was a pile up of students evidently none of them knew the password.

Sirius let out a drastic sigh from behind me. "Merlin, do none of you know the password?" They all mummed confessing that they didn't know it, well that confirmed my suspicion. "Idiots!" He muttered under his breath in my ear and out loud her said "Teapots." Clear enough for the Fat Lady to hear.

She swung open grumbling about having her peace disturbed after a nice and peaceful holiday. All the Gryffindor students tumbled and clambered into the common room wanting a long sleep before school starts.

We clambered into the common room and shuffled towards our dorms exhausted. Just before I climbed even more stairs I remembered what I was going to ask Sirius. I spun round to find him and spotted him about to climb the boy's stair case. "Wait. Sirius." He drew to a stop and turned to face me. "How did you know the passwords?" I asked.

"I'm psychic." He replied, winked at me then turned back round and climbed the stairs to his dorm.

I stared after him in confusion before turning round like Sirius had done before me and clambered up the stairs to my dorm. Once there I shrugged my robes off and pulled my Pjs on before falling into bed asleep before my head hit the pillow.

I next morning I rolled out of bed at the abnormal time of 6:30am. Did you get that 6:30am who wakes up at this godforsaken time. Lily does, that's who. She was franticly running round the dorm getting ready for the first day wakening Sandy, Mary, Cynthia and me up.

"Come on guys, first day back. Get up and dressed." She commanded throwing our school uniforms at us.

The next half hour was spent with us grumbling as Lily hurried us to get dressed and down to the Great Hall for breakfast.

At 7:15am four half asleep and one wide awake girls found themselves in the Great Hall.

Mary and Cynthia said goodbye and set off to sit together in their usual seats while Lily, Sandy and I went to our usual seats. I tucked into the food greedily while Lily and Sandy ate theirs in a lady like fashion.

"Seriously." Sandy said from opposite me.

"Nope wrong person." Was my reply earning a small smile from the sixth year sitting a bit down from us. "But if you want him he has just come in. however I would recommend getting his name right. Its Sirius, say it with me, Sirius." I said dragging out his name the second time.

The boys came and sat beside us and started up their own conversation. We were used to this. At breakfast the girls spoke to the girls while the boys spoke to the boys it had been the same since we started hanging out in fifth year due to a little crush on Sandy's part much to Lily's annoyance. Unfortunately Sandy's crush did not return the feeling so she moved on pretty quickly and Lily could hardly tolerate James, those two hadn't quite clicked with the boys until the end of sixth year. Unlike me, I had clicked with Sirius the first day I met him before school started and when we started hanging out with them I had soon become all of theirs best girl mate. Yes give it up for Ally the Marauder's best girl mate, I should get a medal.

"So Alice." Lily spoke up breaking me out of my thoughts. "Where's the lovely Benji Wallace today?" she asked.

"Yeah where is the lovely boyfriend?" Sirius asked hatred evident in his voice.

"Oh yes." James put in his tone much the same as Sirius' "Where is our fellow Ravenclaw?"

"Shut up you two." Sandy demanded. "You're just jealous that he has one of the two most beautiful girls in the school."

"Yeah." Lily agreed. "Sandy and Alice."

"No." Sandy butted in "Lily and Alice."

"Merlin. Let's just agree that it's all three of us then this fighting won't go on." I said raising my voice slightly. "Anyway he is coming up on Monday as his Uncle just died."

The table then went silent as we ate the remainder food on our plates. I looked up and saw Professor McGonagall walking towards us holding a pile of parchments in her arms.

When she reached us she passed me a parchment before tapping it with her wand. Then she moved onto the rest of my friends and did the same for all of them.

I looked down at my new timetable. "I never get this." Sirius said from next to me. "Why do they make us go to lessons if the first day back is a Friday?"

"Because we need to get a good education even if it's the last day of the week." Lily said as we walked out of the Great Hall all of us heading to Defence against the Dark Arts apart from Peter who had a free.


So yeah, there you go. Comment, favorite, whatever you want. But please tell me what you think. xx