AN: Sorry for the wait folks. I hope this is up to your expectations, if not then please don't stop reading! And I would like a very big round of applause for my wonderful editor XxMissJacobxX! You may also thank her for the long wait! You see she had lost the story!

Disclaimer: I am not J. K. Rowling and I wish I was, but that will never happen.

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Realizations

Lily Evans shot up in her bed. Her red and gold sheets were tangled around her body. Her dark auburn hair was sticking to the sides of her face and back of her neck from the perspiration that she had acquired during her nightmare.

Lily looked at the digital clock that was beside her bed, it read 3:45. She had only slept for four hours before she was brutally awoken by the dream. Lily had been doing study and revision late into the night, and she was exhausted.

The professors were going hard on the sixth year students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Their NEWTS were a year a way, and they still had a lot to learn.

Lily let out a loud groan before lying down, trying to get back to sleep. After ten minutes of tossing and turning, Lily sat up and swung her legs around to the side of her bed, she let out a surprised gasp as her toes came into contact with the cold stone floors of the castle.

Lily climbed out of bed and pulled on her dressing down with slow, quick movements. She then crept out of the sixth year's girl's dorm careful not to disturb the other five girls that were in their beds.

The rest of the night Lily sat in front of the fire in one of the over-stuffed chairs that were in the Gryffindor common room watching the flames, and pondering over the dream she had just awakened from, the one that had seemed so real.

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Later the morning the chatter and footstep of the students going to breakfast awakened Lily. Many people were giving her strange looks for sleeping on the common room couch, but she did not care.

Slowly, she got up and went up the girl's staircase to her dorm. Lily entered the room to see her best friend trying to get in a bit of extra sleep with her head under the pillow, to keep out the light and muffle the noise. The four other girls that were in her dorm were hopping round the room getting ready for the day.

Alice Dale (AN: Alice Longbottom, but she is not married yet) was brushing her teeth while trying to put on her tights. Alice's best friend Sarah Grub was still in the shower. Cynthia Newman also known as Bitch1 was standing in front of the mirror putting on her thick layer of make-up. And Cynthia's follower Kendal Daim (also known as her lapdog) was picking out an extremely skimpy outfit.

Lily tiptoed to her best friend Amanda's bed and started hitting her with an extra pillow that was lying on the ground to wake her up. Amanda shrieked and started to hit Lily back in return with the pillow she had just been using. Lily backed up, knocking into Cynthia in the process. She screamed at them because she had to start all over again, dabbing her face with a wet tissue. Kendal screamed because Cynthia was screaming. The screams caused Alice to tumble off her bed where she had been putting on her tights, and sent her toothbrush skidding across the floor. Sarah who had just come out of the bathroom surveyed the scene with an amused expression on her face.

And that was the start of the usually chaotic day at Hogwarts.

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Lily and Amanda were sitting in the Great Hall eating breakfast and chatting. They had eventually gotten out of what should be called a mad house of a dorm, and they were still laughing over the face Cynthia had made when Lily had backed into her, it was priceless.

Just then walking through the doors were the Marauders.

The Marauders were the four pranksters of Hogwarts. They were in the sixth year just like Lily and Amanda, and they were the most popular people in all of Hogwarts. They had it all humour, looks, money, and brains.

Okay, well Peter Pettigrew, one of the Marauders wasn't that good looking, and he was not that smart. Lily personally did not see why Peter was a Marauder, she found him creepy, but she was sure they had their reasons. Peter was a short and stout, about 5.4, with mousey brown hair and watery blue eyes. He was a bit overweight, more on the roundish side. He was a follower.

Next was Remus Lupin. Lily found out in her second year that he was a werewolf, but for that she had a bit more respect for him. Remus had sandy blonde hair, and almost grey eyes and he was about 6 foot. He was obviously the logical person in the Marauder's, and he stopped things if they went too far, for he was a fellow Prefect with Lily.

After Lupin was Siruis Black. He was a charmer. Black was quite smart and he was far from stupid, and Lily thought he acted stupid all the time because he wanted to be childish and have no responsibilities. He was also the beater on the Gryffindor quidditch team, and he never seemed to stop eating. In fact, he was rarely seen without something to eat in his hands. He had midnight-black hair that was floppy and covered his eyes; these eyes that were an icy blue. When he looked at you it felt like he could read you like an open book, Black was about 6.1.He had a perverse sense of humour and he was a womanizer, it was impossible to count the number of hearts he had broken.

Lastly there was Potter. James Potter was the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and he played chaser, he was also the unofficial leader of the Marauders. Potter was about 6.2 feet, and he had messy black hair that looked un-tameable. He had eyes the colour of melted chocolate which were covered with a pair of round glasses. He had a not so secret crush on Lily Evans, but she would never give him the time of day for reasons many people could not fantasize about, for he was one of the best looking boys in the entire community of Hogwarts.

The four Marauders sat down at the Gryffindor table a few seats away from where Lily and Amanda were sitting.

"Hiya Lily!" Sirius shouted "Hiya Amanda!"

"Sirius shut up, people are trying to eat in peace!" Remus scolded his friend.

"But, who wouldn't want to hear my beautiful voice?" Sirius pouted.

"Well, for a start I wouldn't!" James stated

Sirius sat there for about ten seconds before resuming his pointless chatter.

Just then the post owls came through the windows into the great hall. An owl flew over to Lily with the prescribed daily prophet. She untied the daily prophet from the owl and gave it a piece of her bacon, for which is hooted happily and ruffled it's feathers.

While Lily was feeding the owl Amanda looked at the newspaper.

"Lily! Lily!" Amanda shook Lilly's shoulders.

"Look at this!" Amanda started to poke Lily. The owl flew off, frightened by the Amanda's sharp tones.

Lily turned to Amanda, and looked at what she was pointing at. In big black bold letters the front-page headline stated:

FAMILY OF FOUR FOUND DEAD IN OWN HOME, DARK MARK FLOATING ABOVE

Lily grabbed the newspaper from her friend and started to read the article as Amanda read over her shoulder.

Early this morning the Hogan family was found dead in their own home. Witnesses say that they "Didn't hear the intruder" and that they "Didn't see a thing", however, when the neighbourhood looked out of their windows late yesterday night, there was a dark mark overhead. The person who found them was a neighbour, saying he had just come to bring them a cake for the twin's

birthday. He says that he saw a sign over the house of a skull with a snake coming out of the eye sockets. He rushed into the house and found the whole family in the living room dead with no sign of how they died except for their scared and shocked expressions. The ministry believe it was the dark lords doing, because the Hogan's refused support him. Earlier that week Mrs. Hogan had confessed into a friend, who wishes to remain anonymous, that she was "scared" of what was to come, and that she had made a "serious mistake". Ministry officials are working on the cause of the Dark Lords' reasoning, and why he killed the four Hogan's' one of the important Wizarding families of our time.

Lily dropped the prophet with a loud, stunned gasp.

"Lily, what's wrong? Amanda asked with a worried tone, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah I am fine don't worry about it. I um… forgot my um potions book in the tower I will just go and get it. " Lily gabbled.

"But we don't even have…"

"See you in class Amanda!" Lily interrupted her.

And with that, Lily ran out of the great hall to try and understand what was going on, worried, frustrated, and extremely, extremely confused.

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