Chapter 1

Hey James

"Oi Lily!"

"Hey James, have a good summer?"

"Fairly good, you?"

"Muggle World is slowly becoming more riddled with Voldemort, but it was fair," Lily shrugged fingering the strap of her bag, which rested on her shoulder.

"Hey, it'll all be alright. Besides, we'll be back at Hogwarts in a few hours."

"I don't know how you manage to do it, but you always seem to find the silver lining in everything."

"That's me, Mr. Silver Lining." Lily snorted as she opened a compartment door. Inside were the prefects for the year.

"I guess this is where we part?" She glanced up, knowing their fellow students and Severus Snape were watching the exchange.

"You're not getting rid of me yet Evans. Turns out I'm Head Boy,"

"You're what?"

"I couldn't believe it either, trust me." Remus was grinning up at them from his seat.

"Well then, come on Head Boy, we have a meeting to run." Lily grinned through the whole meeting.

Lily was returning to her compartment where Marlene and Dera were waiting, James and Remus right behind her. When they reached Lily's compartment however, Sirius and Peter were already sitting inside it with her friends. Peter and Sirius had started a game of Exploding Snap and the four were getting quite competitive. Peter had long since shed his jacket and had an arm flung out to try and hinder Dera's playing experience.

"Hello," Lily greeted throwing herself onto the seat next to Marlene, James and Remus sitting across from her. Sirius greeted James with a playful hit in the head.

"Head Boy will soon be headless if you hit him much harder Sirius," Remus smiled pulling out a book from his cloak and splitting it open at the book mark with his fingernails.

"Hey Lily,"

"It's nice to see you Peter, did you have a nice summer."

"I was quite delightful, except for a tiny part, but James let me come and stay with his family." Peter grinned.

"I'm glad it was enjoyable, and that James was so willing to take you in."

"The Potter's are wonderful people, they'd let anyone stay who was in need of a little help." Sirius looked up, throwing down a card to insure they would not explode in his face. Remus looked up from his book as well, marking the paragraph with his index finger.

"They took Sirius in summer before last, just before sixth year was set to start. It was a rough move on Sirius, considering he's been disowned."

"Well, I really couldn't care less, having that old hag for a mother is quite dreadful. I'm glad to leave behind all the pureblood movements and non-muggle society talks. It's a relief to be shot of the family for one like James', despite their pureblood line they have no problems with other 'blood-statuses'."

"Sirius you are extremely redundant," Peter commented as Marlene's cards exploded, turning her face black with ash.

"Who cares?"

"Those who enjoy the art of English and wish to not have it ruined by your incompetent mouth." Dera flipped all her cards down onto the table, effectively winning the game. Sirius growled as the cards exploded, his face now matching Marlene's.

"This is the third deck I've lost to you Dera, I'm going to have to not let you use my decks."

"Come on Black, they're only a Galleon a deck."

"Yes, but you see, Butterfield, I go through about fifteen a week with my mates here, starts to add up after a while."

"Then I'll fund the next couple decks we play with, if you find yours and James' riches dwindling enough to not buy the decks."

"Oh snuff it,"

The chatter died down as Albus Dumbledore stood to address the student body, dinner having just finished, the new first years looking as though they would tumble to the stone floor any moment.

"Welcome back to another magical year at Hogwarts, I have a surprising announcement to make." The student body was on the edge of their seat within a moment. "This year we will be hosting an event where the parents of our students may come and see what the environment is like. The board of directors suggested it as an active activity to bring the community together. Even siblings are invited, if they are younger, or already graduated. They will be spending a few weeks here, so I expect you all to be on your best behaviour. In other news,"

Albus carried on about the usual school rules and a few warnings about the conspiring forces outside the walls of Hogwarts. Lily and James ushered everyone from the hall, being the last to head up, making sure all first years were cared for by a Prefect. Lily yawned widely as they mounted the white marble stairs.

"Tired?" James asked.

"Just a bit, but it's always the same after the welcome back feast; I haven't known a year where I wasn't tired, or feeling as though I would become ridiculously fat overnight." Lily bumped James' elbow with hers.

"I remember a couple years ago when Sirius woke up thinking he had gained five pounds and that the female population was staring at his stomach all day."

"That was a funny morning! I remember saying good morning and asking whether or not he'd received his schedule."

"Didn't he stand up and start yelling he wasn't fat?"

"Yes, and he told me to not stare at his stomach."

"Most girls did after that, they only saw his six pack after all."

"That was a frightening and scarring moment. I never wanted to see that much of Sirius Black."

"Come on Evans, it's a privilege to see the body of the one and only Sirius Black," Sirius was leaning against the wall up ahead, Remus and Peter next to him.

"Is it now?"

"No, I've seen it all too many times, not one of the seven wonders of the world; I can attest to that." Remus muttered flipping a page in the magazine he was reading.

"Definitely not a new discovery with how many girls have seen it, if even our dear Lily has seen it." Peter jabbed with a wink in Lily's direction.

The young woman laughed, her joy filling the whole hallway. The group of five, finished their journey to the common room in idle chatter, waving with lazy yawns when they reached the separate stair cases.

Note: This is so much fun! I sort of got the idea for bringing the parents here from Richard Griffiths in the Prisoner of Azkaban interviews. Please leave a review! ~May