After a little while of running James caught up with her by the lake.

"James, don't put the tickling curse on me. I can hardly breathe right now," Lily, said she had been running for the past ten minutes.

"I'll let it go this once," James laughed. He walked up to Lily smiled and they walked back into the castle.

"So, do you think we are ready for the game?" Lily asked James as he took he hand in his. Lily had played Chaser on the Gryffindor team for the past three years. James had become Captain of the Gryffinor Lions this year.

"I hope so. Sirius, has his work cut out with the new Hufflepuff Chasers," James said.

"Sirius is like the third Buldger out there though," Lily laughed.

They arrived at the Common Room soon after that. Sirius was playing Chess with Lily, and Remus and James were deep discussion about something. Soon after Peter Pettigrew joined them. He followed and idolised James, Sirius and Remus everywhere. He had little watery, rat eyes. He was also a little plump boy. Lily was very un-sure about Peter.

"Lily, Sirius come here," James shouted. Sirius stood up and left, Lily however sat there.

"Lily!" James shouted again.

"I am not a dog James. If you had asked nicely," Lily said smiling. James grinned slyly. He stood up walked over to where Lily was sat and picked her up with ease. He then put her in a chair near to where they were talking.

"There. Now then, after our talk about becoming Anamagi, are we all sure it is the right time?" James asked them. They nodded. In the second year, they had been discussing becoming Anamagi, for Remus who was a Werewolf. They all wanted to help keep him company; they decided seeing as they couldn't do it as humans they would do it as Animals. They had all taken a wand test, James was revealed as a Stag. Sirius a dog, Peter a Rat and Lily a cat.

"When are we going to take the steps?" Lily asked looking through the big book James was holding.

"We start soon. We first have to take a potion every three weeks, when there is a full moon actually. Then we have to take it every two weeks then every week, then we are ready to transform," Sirius said snatching the book.

"So for how long do we take each one?" James asked.

"We start on October the 1st, so three months for each one," Lily said. They all agreed and then left to go to bed.



The next morning, Lily was up early and ready for her first class, which was going to be Divination. Lily was used to Professor Trelawney by now, last year Trelawney had taken to predicting Sirius' death, she was sure this year it would be the same. By the time she had dressed and the rest of it, she went down to breakfast.

"Good Morning," Lily said brightly.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm dreading this lesson," Sirius sighed into his Bacon and Eggs, Lily laughed.

"Sirius she is a fraud. Look at the time she told us Gryffindor wouldn't win the House Cup last year," Lily said. This proved a point because they had won it.

"I know she is. Everyone has been telling me she is a fraud and predicts people's deaths every year, but last year was ridiculous," Sirius said. They both cheered up however when Snape and Malfoy came into the Hall both with florescent green robes. James, who was finding it hard to walk from laughing, followed them in.

"Did you do that?" Lily asked still laughing.

"Both me and Sirius. We needed to get them back for saying we stank," James said. He gave Sirius their secret Handhsake.

"Why can't I know the secret handshake? I am your girlfriend," Lily said smiling.

"Sorry Lily. When you marry James you can know," Sirius said laughing still.

"Yeah, like I would be stupid enough," Lily joked.

"Lily, I am very offended," James said raising his eyebrows. He then took his glasses off and pretended to wipe a tear away.

"Well it's the truth," Lily said and ushered them out as Remus walked in.

"I need breakfast," Remus said trying to get past Lily.

"Tough. Grab some toast, we need to go," Lily said. Remus sighed, grabbed some toast and followed them out.

"Lupin, where have you been? You hardly ever miss breakfast," Sirius asked.

"I was asleep. I do need my Beauty sleep you know," Remus said.

"I agree. If we don't, we will end up with bags under our eyes," Sirius said waving a hand. Lily and James were walking behind hand in hand, laughing at them both.