The Final Year.
a/n: this story is written in a round-robin form. the authors doing it are: pinocchio, beachbabe12, pretty.little.happy.princess, jesse and claudia, (the last two are not fanfiction authors.) We hope you like this story.
disclaimer: we don't own harry potter.
Chapter one: written by pinocchio.
"I can't believe it!" Lily said happily, "We're in seventh year!"
She was standing on Platform 9 ¾ with her three best friends, Emma Rodgers, Ellie Andrews and Katherine Ann. They were all rather smart, but they were different in their own ways.
Ellie Andrews was a loud girl. She was always planning jokes and pranks, naturally she was always in detention, but she didn't care. She was an Aussie girl through and through and through; but she lived in an orphanage during the summer holidays because her parents were both killed. Ellie was a metamorphagus; today her hair was blue, just past her ears, her eyes were amber. Naturally she had light brown hair with aqua eyes. She was the loudest out of Lily's friends.
Emma Rodgers was rather quiet compared to Ellie. She had strawberry blonde hair and eyes that were different colors, one blue and one green. She was always in on Ellie's pranks but she never got caught. Emma was an American girl, though her accent wasn't that strong. Unfortunately, Emma was James Potters cousin; Emma and her friends didn't like the Marauders. Shewas also partly veela, but no one knew except her friends.
Katherine Ann was also a loud girl; she hated being called Katherine so it was always just Kat. She wasn't in detention as often, but she had way more than Lily and Emma. She had blonde hair to her shoulders, and deep blue eyes. Like Lily, Kat was muggle-born, but if anyone ever called her a mudblood, they would pay dearly.
Together they were the most popular and sought after girls in the school. They had decided that their seventh year was to be the best one yet.
"I feel like it was yesterday that everything was so new!" Emma said
"It's still school, it's not going to be any different to last year or the year before, except we have N.E.W.T.S" Ellie said.
"How can you be so casual about it?" Kat asked,
"Don't know, I'm not going to get all worked up about some little tests." She replied,
"They're not just little tests, they'll decide what you can or can't do with the rest of your life!" Lily said,
"Yeah, but we don't have to worry about them for a while."
"True, you guys will all ace them anyway." James Potter said, as he strolled up to them, "Hey Evans, you're looking very good today, want to come with me to Hogsmeade?"
"In your dreams Potter."
"You are in my dreams Evans, every night!" he said, "The Marauders and I are having a game of truth or dare later, want to join in?"
"Yeah, ok!" Ellie said without thinking, she loved truth or dare. "Ow!" she exclaimed when Emma stamped hard on her foot.
"Great!" James said. As he turned to walk away, Ellie turned to Emma.
"What was that for?"
"For agreeing to play truth or dare with them!" she shouted,
"Woops."
"Is that all you can say?" Lily said, "I don't want to play that game with them! Imagine what they could make us do!"
"You're just afraid you'll have fun!" Ellie laughed,
"Uh, guys? They're boarding the train." Kat said, they all boarded the train and chose their favourite compartment, it was the one close to the back, unfortunately, the Marauders always chose a cabin that was close.
The ride to Hogwarts seemed to go unusually fast, but they didn't mind. They bought heaps of lollies from the food cart and stuffed their mouths full. They talked of many things, but the main topic was the Marauders.
"…He thinks he's so great, it's so annoying." Lily said,
"Lily, do you realize you just spent fifteen minutes telling us about James Potter?" Kat said,
"I did not!" she protested,
"Lils, you did." Emma said,
"I did not spend that long talking about James Potter." Just as she said the last two words, James Potter slid open the door and walked in.
"Ah, speak of the devil." Ellie laughed,
"Talking about me again Evans, you just can't get enough can you?"
"You're full of it Potter. What do you want?" she snapped,
"Um, we have to go and talk to the Prefects." He said,
"Oh, yeah." Lily said, as she got up and followed James out of the compartment.
As they walked towards the front of the train, they saw Severus Snape, Bellatrix Black, Claudia Black and Jesse Lestrange bullying a little second year.
They were all Slytherins and all pure bloods. Claudia and Bellatrix were twin sisters and Severus Snape and Jesse Lestrange were their best friends.
Claudia and Bellatrix didn't really look alike, they both had black hair and dark eyes, but Claudia had different facial features. Bellatrix had a long nose, whereas Claudia didn't, Bellatrix' hair was short and Claudia's was very long.
Severus Snape was a grease ball. His black hair was very greasy although the marauders had played countless pranks on him trying to clean it.
Jesse Lestrange had brown eyes and longish blonde hair, she was less mean than the rest, but she was definitely very anti-mudblood.
"Snivellus let him go, now!" James said in a low voice.
"Or what? What are you going to do Potter?" Claudia spat,
"Are you gonna get your little mudblood girlfriend to give us a detention or dock house points from us?" Bellatrix added,
"Don't you everrefer toLily as that. She's more of a witch than you'll ever be so shut your mouth." He said, he grabbed his wand from his pocket and pointed at her, then turned to Snape, "Let…Him…Go."
Snape let go of the little boy, they obviously had left their wands in their compartment, they went off muttering unkind things about James and Lily.
"Thanks James." Lily said quietly,
"That's ok, we're going to be late if we don't get to this meeting thing."
"Oh yeah. Let's go." She said.
Lily was so glad to be back at Hogwarts, it was like home away from home to her. She loved how the ceiling in the Great Hall looked like the night sky.
"It's so good to be back home." Ellie said, she had never thought of the orphanage as her home, because the nuns hated her for what she was.
"Next summer you can stay with me." Emma said; she hated how Ellie had to suffer there while she was in America visiting her relatives.
"Thanks."
"Oh my god, I just remembered." Lily said sadly,
"What?" Kat asked,
"I have to share a common room with Potter."
"Oh, that's not that bad, I thought it was something serious." Kat laughed,
Later on, they were all sitting in the Head's Common room with the Marauders, Sirius was explaining the rules of their version of Truth or Dare.
"… There will be a spell so if you say dare, you have to do it." he finished,
"Sirius, they aren't your rules, they're the rules of normal truth or dare." Emma said, "How stupid are you?"
"Well…"
"It was a rhetorical question!" she snapped, "Can we just play?"
"Yes please." Peter squeaked, he hated it when girls were mad; it was scary.
"I'm going first!" Ellie shouted,
"Fine." James said exasperatedly,
"Hmm, who should I pick on?" she said with an evil grin, "Sirius, truth or dare?"
"As if I would pick truth. Dare." He said confidently,
"I dare you to… find McGonagall and propose to her." Ellie said, her amber eyes now had a glint in them that she always had when she was planning something, "and you have to be very formal about it!"
"Fine, that's not hard." He said weakly, they could tell he didn't want to do it.
They followed him out of the portrait hole and towards McGonagall's office, luckily, she was outside telling off Claudia Black for cursing a suit of armor so it would do the Macarena.
"Um, Professor McGonagall?" he said, "May I speak to you please?"
McGonagall looked very taken aback by his politeness,
"Alright, Miss. Black you may go, but I expect to see you in detention tomorrow. Mr. Black what is it?" she sighed, Sirius got down on one knee, he held out his hand,
"Lady Minerva, I die for love of thee." He said, in a very posh accent,
"What?" she said,
"Lady Minerva, I wish for thee to be mine, I wish to take thy hand in marriage!"
"Mr. Black, I do not have time for your silly jokes, now go to bed." She said, then she turned around and walked off with blushing, she was obviously embarrassed that seven students had just watched Sirius Black propose to her.
They all cracked up laughing, so Sirius decided to take it even further.
"Lady Minerva, I will wait for thee. If you refuse me once more I shall throw myself into the clutches of the evil giant squid that inhabits the lake on the grounds of this school! I shall wait for thee."
"Sirius… I never…said…to take it…that…far." Ellie said between spurts of laughter when they were back in the common room.
"Yeah man, you'd think you had a crush on her or something." Remus laughed
"Shut up! I'm just a brilliant actor. It's my turn now."
The laughter subsided, "Katherine…" he said, but she interrupted,
"Black, if you ever call me that again I will castrate you then avada your ass." She said venomously,
"Truth or Dare?"
"Dare."
"I want you to go out into the library wearing a lime green sparkly dress and sing 'I'm every woman' at the top of your voice."
"Okay." She said, as James flicked his wand and a putrid green dress appeared on Kat.
She walked confidently out of the room, and they went after her. She entered the library and took a deep breath.
'I'm every woman, it's all in me, anything you want done baby, I'll do it naturally…" she sung loudly, a few heads turned her way, 'I'm every woman, it's all in me, I can read your thoughts right now, every one from a to z, I can cast a spell, with secrets you can't tell, mix a special brew, put fire inside of you, but anytime you feel, danger or fear, instantly i will appear, 'cause…"
"Miss Ann, would you please remove yourself from this library now, you are distracting people and causing a ruckus." Madame Pince said.
"Peter. Truth or dare?" she said, Peter looked very afraid, they always picked on him when they played truth or dare."
"Dare?" he squeaked, trying desperately to be tough.
"Go into the Gryffindor Common Room and put on a mini skirt, then dance around squawking like a chicken,"
Peter did this very quickly, getting very embarrassed and tripping over a few times, the mini skirt Sirius had transfigured was incredibly tight.
"It's my turn, it's my turn!" he shouted, "Ok, James truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"Kiss Lily for two minutes." He said, Lily groaned, James smiled broadly; it was as if a million Christmases had come at once.
He slowly walked over to her and put his arms around her waist. She looked up at him and leaned in, he closed the small gap that was left. He kissed her passionately for what seemed like forever. The second Emma told them it had been two minutes, he pulled away slowly, and for some reason, Lily was disappointed he had stopped kissing her.
"I'm sick of this game now." Lily said, "I'm going to bed."
"Me too." James said, "You guys can crash there in the common room if you want. Night Lily."
"Night James." She said, as she wandered off to her bedroom. The others decided just to go to sleep in the common room, so they transfigured some blankets and fell fast asleep.
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