Snow Shoes, Butterfly Wings, and Hair Clips

I know I said I would be doing another Ronmione, but I kinda got sidetracked and…this happened. This is my second story, first marauder-era story. It's really a romance but it has its fair share of humor…hopefully…. I was really careful choosing the names for the OC girls, because I'm just that much of a perfectionist. So here's a little key of what the names mean: Leila=Dark haired beauty, Charity=…well…charity…and Sallie= princess. I really don't know who Lily's actual roommates are, and these just fit the story better.

These chapters are going to be really long, just because I figure why not have several things happen in one chapter? And also because I have a lot of stuff to cover.

Disclaimer: No matter how much I cry and whine, Harry Potter is not mine. And I will never have my way, because all his rights belong to J.K.

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Chapter 1

Leila laughed as she stood up from her perch on Lily's bed. "I'm off Lils! See you Char!" Charity rolled her eyes at the impromptu nickname, and smiled as Leila sauntered out of their dormitories, swinging her waist-length black hair behind her.

Leila always did that, sauntering anyways. She was so relaxed about everything, never taking anything too seriously. Everything was relaxed for her. From schoolwork-or lack thereof- to her boyfriend of the week, she never gave anything much thought, and it always seemed to work out perfectly anyway. Charity however, was the exact opposite. She was always busy or stressed, not to mention painfully shy. Well not with her friends, but with the general public. It was remarkable the two had become so close. Of course, they wouldn't be nearly as close as they were without Lily. She was the glue that held them together.

"Come on 'Char' it's late, we should be getting some sleep." Charity laughed and went over to her bed, turning off the lamp as she walked.

When Leila entered the common room she was immediately jumped upon by Sirius Black.

"ARGH! Geroffme! SIRIUS!"

"Relax your pretty head miss Nakamura!" Said Sirius, getting off of Leila, who was now lying on the floor trying not to laugh, as well as ignore the tingles in her stomach that he had talked to her, and was just on top of her. She tried, successfully, not to blush. "I am simply here to escort you to our destination this evening. If you would be so kind as to follow me." Again Leila tried not to laugh as Sirius picked up the flower that had fallen out of her hair (She wore a different one every day) and handed it over. She stood up and followed him out of the common room.

"Miss Nakamura, I regret to inform you that you are not allowed to know which way we are going after this point."

"Sirius, we're only at the portrait hole."

"Yes, but this is a secret meeting, and therefore the place is to remain secret." He grinned as he handed her a blindfold.

"Aw, come on!"

"You will be allowed to know where you are as soon as the meeting is over!"

"Fine!" She laughed, and tied on the blindfold. As soon as it was on, Sirius grabbed her hand, (Here come the tingles,) and began to lead her to their destination.

Finally, after many twists and turns, they seemed to be at the right place. Leila heard Sirius open a door and she was lead inside. Someone untied her blindfold and she could tell right away that the boys (James, Sirius, Remus, and somewhat Peter) had put a great deal of effort into this. She was in a large room, with a tall ceiling, complete with chandelier. The room was shaped more like a hall, and at the end, directly across from her, was a long wooden table at which all the marauders sat.

As soon as her blindfold was off, Sirius ran over to his spot at the table, smirk plastered across his face, until he noticed something, "Hey, where's moony? We're not nearly as intimidating without HIM!" James looked at the empty seat and said, "Dunno mate, it's not like him to miss things."

Sirius cast a worried glance at the chair, and then shrugged it off, "Probably with that darling Sallie of his. Really they are a terrible match! I doubt if she's even right in the head. Never flirted with me once. And you know how irresistible I can be." James looked at his best friend for a minute before rolling his eyes, "Padfoot, do you mind? We are here on official business, moony or not."

With that James turned back to Leila, "Miss Nakamura, what happens in this room is to remain secret, well some of it, I mean people are going to notice when we start calling-never mind. Do you, Leila Nakamura, agree to keep most of this meeting secret?"

"Yes."

"Well then, I suppose we can tell you what you're here for."

"That would be nice."

"Well, you, Leila Nakamura, have shown great valor, cleverness, and immaturity over the past six, going on seven years we have known you. These are of course, very important traits. Therefore the marauders have gotten together and had a talk on whether or not you should be given certain…rights…" Leila forced herself not to roll her eyes at James's false formality. "We talked and finally decided that you were worthy of something many people would only dream of getting. We are giving you, an opportunity to become the first lady marauder." James finished with a flourish of his wand, causing streamers and confetti to fall from the ceiling.

Leila laughed, as Sirius ran over to her and grabbed her hands, forcing her to jump up and down with him. She ran a hand through her hot pink-streaked hair and smiled as Sirius ran back to his seat, James had something else to say, "Although it may seem easy to become a marauder, note that I said that we were giving you an OPPORTUNITY to become one, not just handing it over. You see, it takes a lot to be within our ranks. And therefore, we have a sort of initiation for you to go through-"

"-Hold it right there James Potter, I never said that I wanted to be a 'Lady Marauder'"

James looked at her in surprise, "Well fine, would you like to accept our request?"

Leila smiled, "Of course!"

James rolled his eyes, dear god, another Sirius in the making, and continued, "Now, about your initiation. You see, a marauder can't take him-or HERself too seriously." Sirius giggled in the background, "So therefore, sometime tomorrow, the marauders will be playing a little…well actually it's not very little-prank on you. That is if you are still up to becoming a marauder."

"Why are you telling me you're going to prank me?"

"Might as well give you a warning."

"Will it be painful?"

"Physically no, possibly mentally, it really depends on your mind set."

"Then I suppose I'm up to it." She noticed Sirius's grin grow wider, and couldn't help but smile herself.

"Well then, I suppose tomorrow, you should expect the unexpected. On to the next order of business." He looked at her with a smirk, "IF you survive tomorrow's prank, you successfully earn your marauder nickname. Of course, it must have something to do with you, therefore, show me your patronus."

"James, I don't care what lingo you use, my 'patronus' is staying hidden, thank you."

"no!" James was blushing, and Sirius giggled again. Peter just looked confused. "I meant your ACTUAL patronus. You know, the spell!"

Leila snickered and pulled out her wand, "Expecto patronum!" A dazzling white butterfly flew from the tip of her wand, circling around the room once before fading from view. Sirius had been staring at the butterfly its entire trip, and looked greatly disappointed at its disappearance. James had also been watching it, but as soon as it was gone his attention snapped back to Leila, "Well, the boys and I are going to deliberate, and by tomorrow, you MIGHT just have a spot here."

Leila smiled, "So that's it?"

"That is it."

"Am I allowed to tell Lily and Charity?" James smiled at the mention of Lily's name, and thought about how Lily should really be a marauder, and then remembered that marauder's didn't date, that would just be wrong. Not that he was dating Lily…yet.

"hm? Yes, oh, I suppose so…" He pulled himself together, "You wouldn't be worthy of the title Lady Marauder if you didn't tell your friends forbidden Marauder secrets, simply don't tell them about the prank. It is a surprise for EVERYONE." Leila rolled her eyes, and allowed Sirius to walk her back to the common room, this time without a blindfold. The tingles started again.

As soon as Sirius had dropped Leila off at the door to her dormitory, he walked to his. He sat on his bed, waiting for the others to show up. Two minutes later, James and Peter walked in. Peter changed right away, hopped on his bed and went to sleep, but it only took one look at Sirius for James to notice that something was up with his best mate. He waited for the telltale signs of snoring from Wormtail's bunk, and then went over to Sirius, "Hey mate, what's up?"

Sirius looked around, then back at James, "Promise you won't tell ANYONE, not even moony?" James nodded. "Well, you know how I go out with a lot of girls? All the time?"

"Well yea mate, kinda hard to miss with you snogging them right in front of me during breakfast….and sometimes lunch….and almost always at dinner…and then there's-"

"-alright I get it! So you've noticed. Well suppose, just hypothetically of course, that I dated all those girls just for the attention of one? Well that and I'm totally gorgeous! I can't just deny those girls some of this." He smiled, gesturing to his face.

"Sirius, where are you going with this?"

"Nowhere really, just imagine that what I said was true, about it all being to get one girl to notice me…"

"Alright…"

"Okay, now what if that girl happened to be….I don't know…Leila Nakamura?"

"Dude!"

"What? I'm being Sirius here!...ha…."

"Something tells me this isn't hypothetical anymore."

"What was your first clue?"

"Listen, Leila's a great girl, but-"

"Great? I've liked her since fourth year, when she got those pink thingies in her hair, you know. And I never realized how funny she was. Or smart…well clever really, not that she's stupid, she just doesn't do any work, but she has to be clever to pull off half the pranks she does… No wonder all those boys like her. She's got such great…skin…."

James looked at his friend for a while, but didn't say anything. What was he supposed to say? Marauders don't date marauders? Stop liking her? This was his best mate. Probably his first crush, or rather, infatuation. It was like someone telling him to stop liking Lily, which was impossible. She was so pretty. She had nice…skin…too.

Both marauders were shocked out of their romantic reveries by the door opening and slamming. Remus 'moony' Lupin stormed into the dormitory, looking furious.

"Moony! You look positively pi-"

"And I should be Pads! I just broke up with Sallie."

"Blimey mate, what happened?" James was confused. Moony was careful with relationships. He was always careful, with them, and rarely ever got involved unless he was sure he and that person were going to last a while. He and Sallie had been dating for a bit less than a month.

"I'll tell you what happened! I was heading over to the room of requirement to be there for the Leila thing, when she comes out of nowhere and old me to follow her. She said it would only take a few minutes, and I had time, so I went along. Turns out she was taking me to hang out with her friends, which was fine until they started talking trash about us-the marauders that is. When I started to defend you guys, Sallie pulled me aside and told me that I shouldn't hang out with you guys anymore, it was social suicide."

"What? I'm plenty popular!" James shot up from his seat.

"Yea, that girl gives a bad name to blondes everywhere." Sirius joined his friend. "Why did you date her to begin with? You guys had nothing in common."

"Well I suppose it is a bit embarrassing, and not the best judgment on my part, but maybe because she flirted with me before you Sirius. I mean, all the girls first run to you, and some to James, but mostly to Sirius-" "-I resent that!-" "- and then, sometimes, they flirt with me. And only sometimes. Even then I don't go out with them because they're not my type, but Sallie wasn't my type either, however she didn't like James or you first."

Leila snuck into her dormitory, careful not to wake anyone up, as she began to change she tripped over her trunk with a loud CRASH. Lily and Charity sat up quickly, looking around. Charity was the first to notice the origin of the noise, "Oh, Leila, good to see you. How did you're little meeting go? What did the marauders want?"

Leila filled them in on everything-except the prank, of course, and when she was done, the girls were looking at her in awe.

"A lady Marauder? Wow Leila, you must be so excited! Of course, you have to spend time with James, but no deal is perfect!" Lily laughed.

"Was Remus there? What did he say?" Charity asked, excitement in her voice.

"Sorry Charity, Remus was missing from the group, I have no idea where he was, and apparently the marauders didn't either. Sirius thinks he was with Sallie, and I agree."

The other girls nodded, and, finished with their questioning, went back to bed. Leila finished changing and lay down. She could still remember that tingle she had felt when Sirius had touched her arm, and fallen on her, quite vividly. Just the memory made her giggle.

I know this chapter was more focused on Leila and Sirius, but they ARE the most flirtatious people in the story. The other people will have their chances, don't worry. Stay tuned for Leila's prank! Anyone get the Harry Potter 6 movie reference with James and Sirius? Tell me if you did-speaking of telling me things, why don't you press that little button there that lets you tell me what you thought of this thing? Eh? Please?