Chapter one
Lily was angry. She was sitting on the breakfast table her untouched cup of coffee sitting in front of her. Sirius was happily stuffing his face. Marlene was yawning beside him, she looked ready to fall down in her cereal bowl any second. Remus and Ginny were eating calmly and watching Lily. They were supposed to meet early so that they could utilize their first free period to start fifth book. But James was nowhere to be seen.
"Where the hell is he! Sirius!" Lily shook Sirius again who just shrugged. "How can you not know? He's your dormmate!" Sirius shrugged again. "Will you stop eating for a second and answer me!" She shook him again.
Sirius turned towards Marlene " Do something! your bestfriend is going mental." Marlene yawned again " Remind me why are we having breakfast this early?"
"If you had came back to sleep on time rather than sucking face with this doofus you wouldn't be so tired!" Lily snapped. "Hey!" Marlene protested with a red face. Sirius gave Lily a Cheshire grin. Lily groaned.
"I'm gonna kill him!" Lily said getting up and picking her butter knife. "Why don't you throw this on him instead?" Remus offered his water goblet. "Good idea" Lily said leaning over the table to garb it.
That's when someone slapped her bottom. Lily yelped and spilled water all over the toast platter. James' freshly showered scent hit her with full force.
"Morning tomato!" James said kissing her cheek which was turning ultra red due to anger. "Did you just slap my ass" Lily said in a slow dangerous tone. "Yup" James replied cheekily grabbing a piece of bacon. Sirius and Marlene laughed loudly, while the rest two hid their smiles behind their goblets.
"You hit me, in great hall, in front of all teachers!" Lily asked again. "Yup! Btw you are looking gorgeous today my love!"
Lily narrowed her eyes at him " Care to explain why you are late?" "Sweets... I was charming Peter, so he wont wake before classes start and I got late bringing you these, would look great with your hairs" James said pulling out a few yellow flowers.
Lily turned to see a few Hufflepuff girls sigh behind them. James winked at them and Lily threw water on his face. "This is for slapping my ass and being late" She pecked his lips "and this is for the flowers". Sirius wolf whistled. James grinned widely and started eating hurriedly because others were finished. Lily turned smugly towards the Hufflepuff girls who rolled their eyes and turned back. Lily caught McGonagall's eyes on the teacher's table, who rose one eyebrow at her, but failed to hide a small smile. Lily blushed and hid behind her hairs.
As James finished eating, Sirius went to drop Marlene back to her dorm so that she could sleep. Soon they were settled outside in the garden to read. They had charmed the book cover to resemble their ordinary course book, so that others wont get suspicious.
Chapter one
Dudley demented
The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close... living room and watching television with his aunt and uncle.
" After reading about all the cool stuff with the tasks and Voldy, can't believe we are back to Dudley's. " Sirius said groaning.
Almost as though this thought had fluttered through the open window, Vernon Dursley,...Dudley hasn't got a clue what's going on, doubt he knows who the Prime Minister is!
"Gosh that's not something to be proud of!" Lily said frustratingly running a hand through her hair. James' flower fell down. "Sorry hun!" She said picking it up. "Here let me" James put the flower back on her hair clip. Sirius gagged. "Please, can you be less coupley around us!" They both ignored him.
Anyway, it's not as if there'd be anything about his lot on our news —"... smoking on street corners, and throwing stones at passing cars and children.
"Atleast Dudley's growing up to be normal" Lily said.
Harry had seen them at it during his evening walks around Little Whinging... Aunt Petunia, who had followed the case obsessively in every magazine she could lay her bony hands on).
Lily laughed a little. "So typical tuney!"
Harry closed his eyes against the now blazing evening sky as the newsreader said
...Azkaban, escaped, attempted to commit the murder he had been convicted for in the first place, then gone on the run with a stolen hippogriff. . . .
"Low blow Harry, low blow!" Sirius said shaking his head, but not looking angry at all.
Harry vaulted over the locked park gate and set off across the parched grass...Exactly the opposite of what you'd have done . . .
"That's true!" Sirius agreed.
He got to his feet and stretched... Cause that's not cheek, Dud, that's true . . ."
"He's sounding way too much like the old you James!" Lily cringed. James scratched his head. "What old you?" Sirius asked confused.
A muscle was twitching in Dudley's jaw... That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this."
The guys laughed at that. Even Lily's lips twitched.
"I mean when you're in bed!" Dudley snarled... Harry snatched it up, scrambled to his feet, and turned around.
"Whoa! Did he just do wandless magic and he's is what like fifteen. That is so cool." James said impressed. "But he's underage, he didn't get expelled did he?" Lily asked, uncertainty lacing her voice.
His stomach turned over... Oh, I'm going to kill Mundungus Fletcher!"
Chapter two
A peck of owls
What?" said Harry blankly...Harry's foot was on the bottommost stair when Dudley found his voice.
"Him."
"Doesn't he realizes he just saved his life, how can he turn him in" Remus said exasperated. "Ofcourse not, that would be way too normal for Dursleys" Ginny replied.
Harry froze, foot on the stair, face screwed up, braced for the explosion... has resulted in your expulsion from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Ministry representatives will be calling at your place of residence shortly to destroy your wand.
"No!" They all cried.
As you have already received an official warning for a previous offense... They guard the wizard prison, Azkaban," said Aunt Petunia.
Lily's eyes were wide as saucers. "She remembered that, I can't believe it" Lily muttered softly. James caressed her cheek.
Two seconds' ringing silence followed these words and then Aunt Petunia clapped her hand... I heard — that awful boy — telling her about them — years ago," she said jerkily.
"What boy?" James asked. Lily didn't reply, she knew fully well whom she meant and when did she hear that. But she never expected that Tuney would remember that, she always made a habit of ignoring everything about Lily.
"If you mean my mum and dad, why don't you use their names?"... without the slightest sign that the murder of Harry's parents might be a painful topic to anybody.
Lily gave a humorless laugh at that.
"That giant bloke said so. He's gone."...were not narrowed in dislike or anger: They were wide and fearful.
Lily's eyes watered at that. Maybe they had some hope after all, she and her sister. Maybe Lily's death actually affected her a bit.
The furious pretense that Aunt Petunia had maintained all Harry's life...DO NOT LEAVE YOUR AUNT AND UNCLE'S HOUSE.
"He should leave! Tell me he leaves" Sirius said, not quite believing he was the one forcing Harry to stay with Dursleys. He could see no reason why he didn't went running the moment he heard Harry was in danger.
"You heard me!" said Uncle Vernon, bending forward now,... "YOU HEARD YOUR AUNT, NOW GET TO BED!"
" I bet that was from Dumbledore" Lily said knowing too well that Petunia has managed to contact him once before.
Chapter three
The advanced gaurd
I've just been attacked by dementors and I might be expelled from...And then, quite distinctly, he heard a crash in the kitchen below.
"Ah finally, something happens, this chapter was making me miserable" Sirius said sitting upright, from where he was slumped on the grass.
He sat bolt upright, listening intently... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!"
They all laughed at that.
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"...They're heading off to the prize-giving right now. . . . Or they think they are."
"Awesome! This violet girl is great" James cheered. "You learned her her hair color quiet too soon" Lily said with narrowed eyes. James laughed and pinched cheek. "So cute!" She swatted his hand away.
Harry had a fleeting vision of Uncle Vernon's face when he realized there was no All-England Best-Kept Suburban Lawn Competition... And with a nasty squelching sound much like a plunger being pulled from a sink, he popped out his eye.
"Ewww" lily muttered, not able to help it.
"Mad-Eye, you do know that's disgusting, don't you?... I got top marks in Concealment and Disguise during Auror training without any study at all, it was great."
"That is so cool" Remus said. Ginny smiled secretly.
"You're an Auror?"... He seemed to have become a human chameleon.
"We have got to learn that" Sirius gasped, almost getting up, as if going straight to library to research.
"Come on," said Moody, unlocking the back door with his wand... The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London.
The guys rose their eyebrows in unison. "My parents' place for headquarters? Seriously?" Sirius asked Ginny. She shrugged "It was the best possibility at that time." "What are you doing?" Sirius asked Lily, who was stuffing the book in her backpack. "What? We got DADA right now! Common we'd be late" lily replied getting up. Sirius didn't move "We can't stop here!" "Hah! Consider it my revenge from yesterday, when I wanted to read and you all left" Lily said flipping her hair over her shoulder, although she was dying with curiosity since Sirius mentioned it was his house. But they had classes to attend so they'll have to wait.