A/N:This is brief overview of Lily's life, years 3 to 6. This is just a few main events to set the stage. Btw, whatever J. K. Rowling wants, she can have. She can take the plot too!

Sorry Agnes1014, I did say I would have it a few days ago, but my hard drive fried itself, so my comp is USELESS! I've lost some of my stuff, but all hail my bro the comp. geek. He saved some of it.

Lily followed the short first years into the great hall, after murmuring some words of encouragement in their ears. Lily figured that the sorting couldn't be hard- she hadn't heard of any people being turned away from Hogwarts. When a teacher announced from the front that all she had to do was put on a hat, she couldn't help but be relieved though.

After the song, which confirmed all Lily's beliefs about the different houses, she waited for her turn. When it arrived, the deputy headmistress, Professor McGonagall, announced, "Miss Walters is transferring here from home-schooling so we will welcome her into third year."

When the hat was placed on her head and she was startled to hear it talking to her.

/Miss Evans, I'm surprised to find you here./

'How do you know my name?' she asked in her head, panicked.

/You can't hide anything form the sorting hat. Hmmm... Not Slytherin, you don't have the ambition, although you have the smarts. Ravenclaw, maybe? No... You would not fit in, your smarts are in other areas. Hulfflepuff would work, you would fit in there, as a hard worker wilst being loyal./

'What about Gryffindor?'

/That could work for you too, you would go to amazing lengths to help someone in need and you have a scary temper when broken, although I think you would fit in Hufflepuff best. Pick one./

'Umm... which one is Remus Lupin in?'

She could feel the hat laughing in her head.

"GYFFINDOR!"

James Potter waved his wand in the air, causing a group of Slytherin first years robes to be turned red and gold. He and the rest of the marauders laughed at the astonished look of the first years. They feebly waved their wands at their clothes, trying to find a way to undo the charm, but to no avail. The marauders stumbled away, clutching their stomachs in laughter as other Slytherins also tried to undo the charm. Severus Snape, a greasy haired Slytherin, marched in front of the marauders.

"Why did you do that? What have they ever done to you?"

"They're Slytherins, that's why. And they don't have done anything to us, they're going to try later," retorted Sirius Black.

"Get your greasy head out of our business, Snivelus," spat James as he performed the charm on him too.

The marauders then turned away and walked out of sight. A hand tapped Severus on the shoulder from behind.

Severus spun to face a female Gryffindor. "What do you want?"

"Would you like me to remove that charm for you?" Lily Evans asked quietly.

Severus looked over to the Slytherin first years, to see that they were back in their normal colours again. He sighed and looked back at her, "Thanks. Could you?"

She gave a polite smile and undid the spell with a finite incantem. She walked away, leaving Severus Snape standing dumbfounded trying to figure out what sort of a Gryffindor would help a Slytherin against the marauders.

"Today and tomorrow you will be learning about a dark beast, the boggart," announced the defense against the dark arts instructor. The Slytherin and Gryffindor third years looked excited- classes about boggarts were rumoured to be the best ones of the year. The third years spent that period reading from their text and leaving with a promise of a practical lesson the next day.

When the student arrived the next day, their books were put under the desks and their wands were out. After a few minutes of warm-up, the professor introduced them to the boggart.

"Last week, Professor McGonagall found this boggart in one of her trunks, and gave it to us for practice. When I say 'go', line up for the practical. I will open up this trunk and the boggart will com out as what we learned, and you will say the spell 'Riddikulus'. Each person will go up separately. Go."

The student scrambled to get to the front of the line. Lily was last in line- she didn't want to push anybody away.

Person after person went. James boggart was a broken broomstick, which everyone laughed about. Then there was Peter- a vicious cat-, Sirius -the marauders dead-, Lupin -the full moon-, Snape -an evil version of himself. When Lily's turn came up, she took the stand.

The professor opened the trunk again, of which the beautiful Lily Evens crawled out of. 'Why was she afraid of the missing beauty', everyone wondered. Lily looked in horror at the boggart. 'How dare it try to reveal her?' she thought furiously. She swung her wand at it and yelled, "Riddikulus!"

The boggart was destroyed in a puff of smoke.

The professor and the students looked at her strangely. They passed it off after thinking that a few people had strange fears, and that the boggart was already weakened by its previous encounters.

"Oh well, they don't last forever," the professor said.

Lily looked out her window at the beautiful full moon, thinking about how she had saved the Slytherin tables occupants from being the victims of another marauder attack. She had found out about it beforehand when she was travelling between herbology and charms. The marauders had been casually walking past, when she heard the words, "pink", "food", and "hilarious".

Lily then proceeded to follow the marauders after class, hoping to find the source of their mischief, until they reached a painting. They tickled a pear on the painting, and it swung open. She slipped in behind the marauders.

She was surprised to find out that she was in the kitchens. She made a mental note to remember this spot for later. She ducked behind one of four large tables topped with food. While listening in on the marauder's conversation with a house elf, she was surprised to find a hand sneakily dripping a potion on the food. Lily guessed that this was a "distract and attack" by the marauders. After they left, Lily stood up to leave, but decided that whatever they had put in the food would probably be harmful to whoever ate it. She turned to the nearest house elf and asked, "Where is this food going?"

"Th-the Slytherin t-t-table at the f-feast, miss," the house elf answered.

"Do you mind if I check it? I believe the marauders were up to something."

"N-not at all, m-miss."

Lily picked up a piece of chicken and smelled it. With her knack for potions, it was easy to tell that this was some form of magical dye. After doing a few calculations in her head, she told the house elf, "I'll be right back. Don't serve this until then, please." The house elf nodded.

Lily came back and dripped the antidote on the vast amount of food, said thanks to the house elf, and joined everyone in the great hall. The faces on the marauder's faced when nothing happened were hilarious, yet Lily only let out a small smile.

Back from her memories, Lily noticed a wolf howl in the distance.

Lily was reminiscing about her past week. She had discovered that Remus Lupin was a werewolf, by finally connecting the dots from his sick mother, his disappearances, and the full moon. She was mildly surprised, yet she thought no less of him. She almost thought more, for keeping such a big secret.

She had also foiled another one of the marauders pranks. They had almost succeeded in setting "live" mistletoe up around the school, but she had managed to steal them and hide them in her trunk. She wasn't looking forward to opening it up when summer came. It bounced around in the mornings, when the "live" mistletoe woke up, acting as an original alarm clock- imagine the havoc that would happen when it was opened.

People had started to notice that the marauders did less pranks. This was, in fact, false; Lily was just stopping all the ones which bullied people. She didn't think that people would appreciate having mistletoe that did who-knows-what flying over their heads for who-knows-how-long. Lily often thought that when one thought about how much she knew about what the marauders did, she sounded like a stalker, but she immediately dismissed the idea after watching their fan girls. Little did she know that a one of the few things that she did not notice the marauders doing, would be the one that affected her the most.

I'm unsure to whether I should worry about americanisms. If you want any changed, put it in a review, please!

Are spells supposed to be capitalized? Wikipedia for once is useless in this... Btw, thank you Wikipedia for being my substitution for the books, as I have none.

What about courses? Are they supposed to be capitalized? I'm so confused...

What is the painting that is the entrance to the kitchens? I can't remember what, just that there is tickling and a pear.

A/N- I just realized that there was some form of relationship between Lily and Severus early on in their lives. I'm trying to make this as close to cannon as possible, but I don't know their relationship. EGADS!! Btw, does anyone know where "egads" comes from? Also, I hope you don't mind chapters about as long as this, I can only write one of these scenes a night because I have to use my mum's comp. See reason in first A/N.