Sometimes, dreams come true

CHAPTER ONE

James woke up on a beautiful sunny day and thought to himself, "This was going to be his day". He looked over to his sleeping roommates, who were still asleep at the time, and sighed. They always liked to sleep in on Saturdays, so he got dressed carefully, not wanting to wake them up.

He slid down the banister that led from the boys dormitory, to the common room. It was his 5th year at Hogwarts, so he knew the school inside-out. It was still early, so no one was up in the common room. He sat down in his favorite arm chair by the window, and took out the Marauders Map. Which he and his friends had invented in their previous year at hogwarts. But this was no ordinary map... It showed the whole school of Hogwarts. But not only the school, it showed where everyone in the whole school was!

He peered around it for awhile, trying to find Lily Evans, a girl he had liked since his first year at Hogwarts. Finally, he found her dot, which was up in the Owlery, with his worst enemy, Severus Snape. He grabbed his Invisibility Cloak and ran as fast as he could to the Owlery, and found them arguing. He threw on his cloak, so that they wouldn't be able to see him.

"Lily! You know I didn't mean it!" yelled Snape. "I was under alot of pressure! Don't you understand?"

"Well," said Lily sarcastically "Am I really supposed to understand you calling me a Mudblood? You know I didn't ask to be born into my family!"

Now, if you will excuse me, I need to send my letter. So if you will please move..."

She pushed her way towards one of the school owls and started to tie a letter onto it's outstretched leg. James grinned as Severus kicked the floor with his leg and winced.

Meanwhile, Lily had finished, and was on her way to the door. Only to be stopped again by Snape.

"Move." she said flatly

"Not until you listen to me." Snape said

"Fine." said Lily taking a step back and putting her arms on her hips. "Well?"

"Come with me, we need to talk." said Snape. He beckoned to her to follow. They walked out to the grounds, (with James following them), until they came to a large Willow tree. They both sat down, both silent, until Lily broke the silence.

"Well?" she asked " What do you have to say for yourself?"

"Umm..." said Snape scraping his foot against the dirt. He hesitated. "Im sorry!" he finally blurted out.

"Its ok... But, you know, its a really bad insult, and if you ever call me it again, that will be the end of our friendship. And thats for sure!" she warned.

"Thanks Lily! I promise! Your the best friend I have ever had" he hugged her. Then said a little quieter, "And my only..."

James stormed into the boys dormitory, only to find that his friends still were still in bed. He scowled, and decided to wake them up, they had already slept enough, he thought.

"WAKE UP!!!!!" yelled James at his room mates, Sirius, Remus, and Peter.

Suddenly, they were all up, with their eyes round.

"What the bloody hell gave you the idea that I like you to wake me up by screaming?" asked Sirius.

"You have no right!" said Remus. Peter nodded his agreement.

"You guys wont believe what I just saw." said James collapsing onto his bed.

"What happened Prongs?" asked Sirius, appearing to have lost his bad mood in spite of James odd behavior.

"I can't believe Lily forgave him." said James

"Ok, Prongs. You have two choices." said Remus "Either, A) tell us what you saw, or B) Just shut up about it!"

"Then I guess I will have to choose A." said James "I went this morning up to the owlery, and saw Snape and Lily arguing. I had the invisiblity cloak on, so they didn't see me. Anyway, they were arguing because Snape had called her a Mudblood. So Snape said he was sorry, and Lily said it was ok."

"Oh..." said Peter "So that was all? That wasn't that bad James."

"Shut up, Wormtail." said James simply

"Well, should we go down to breakfast then?" asked Sirius.

"Ok, and can you guys help me make up an excuse to slaughter Snape?" asked James

"Sorry Prongs," said Remus while getting dressed. "But you know that if you hurt Snape, Lily will really have an excuse for hating you."

"I guess your right." sighed James

"Well, at least there is one thing we can look up to!" said Peter. "Hogsmead today!"

"Really?" asked James suddenly a bit more cheerful "Do you guys think that Lily will go with me?"

"Maybe..." said Sirius vaguely while throwing on his cloak. "Anyway, I won't be able to go with you guys today..."

"Why not?" demanded James

"I'm going to go with Melissa." said Sirius. (Melissa was his girlfriend at the time. And Sirius was so good looking, that he had dated almost the whole school.)

"Oh," Said James "So you already asked her?"

"Of course!" he said

They made their way to the great hall. Sirius saw Melissa, and went over to sit down next to her and kiss her. Remus and Peter sat down in an empty spot, and they both looked expectantly at James to sit with them.

"See you guys later." mumbled James, he had just seen Lily.

He made his way towards her. She was talking to her friend Mandy. He tapped her shoulder. She looked back in surprise.

"What do you want Potter?" she asked

"Can I talk to you for a second?" he asked.

"Only if you wont drag on about how beautiful I look..." she said. But she got up and followed him outside of the hall.

"So?" she asked him

"Well, you know there is a Hogsmeade trip today..." he said, trying to speak as clearly as possible. "And I was wondering if you wanted to go with me..."

"Oh," she said. "I'm going to go with my friends today... Maybe next time." She turned to leave.

"No, wait, Lily!" he grabbed her arm. "It would be an honor if you came with me... Did I tell you how pretty you look today?"

She rolled her eyes at him. "I don't know, Potter, why don't you just go with your friends?"

"Because I want to go with you." he insisted. " I don't know if you haven't noticed, but I really like you."

"Of course I've noticed." she said. "But I have also noticed that you were bullying Snape the other day."

"I haven't touched Snape for a long time!" said James indignantly. "It's not even fun to be mean to him anymore! Not to mention I don't have time..."

"Next time. Okay?"

She walked away. James was still dumbstruck. He had a chance with going out with Lily! This was wonderful! He couldn't wait for next Hogsmead. But he would have to leave Snape alone for the next month. He punched the air in victory. Then walked back into the Hall.

He found his friends finishing their breakfast. He walked over to them. Still grinning.

"What are you so happy about?" asked Peter.

James told them what happened.

"Wow!" said Sirius. " You'll have to be carefull not to lay a finger on Snape!"

"Isn't it wonderful?" asked James.

"Yeah... but we should go finish our homework, so that we can actually go to hogsmead." said Remus.

"Yeah, Prongs, we should go." said Sirius

Peter looked longingly at his half eaten plate of bacon, and sighed. Then followed his friends out of the Great Hall.

Author's Note: This is one of my first Harry Potter fan fic, so please read and review!!! And please, no flames.

-Icetail ..