And a damn good time she had. The gangly eleven year old who Cherish had

taken to calling Copperhead(her hair was black with blue streaks and she really

hated snakes) lived life to the fullest. She pulled pranks on everyone-but mostly

Sirius and his friends. "Did you see- did you see!" Cherish laughed in her distinctly

Southern way. "I saw" Elizabeth giggled. They had just turned Ravenclaw's statue

bright pink. "Hey, isn't that Lily Evans crying?" Their friend Josie asked. Josie was a

brown skinned brown eyed black haired beautiful American- the only other

American in the school. "I think so…wonder why" Lizzie asked. Cherish, however,

was already bounding her way over to where Lily sat, weeping. "Hey Lils, what's

wrong sweetie?" Cherish asked softly. "I-I Sev got bullied and –and now he won't t-t-

talk to m-m-m-me because it was Griffindors and-d-d" there was more, but it was

unintelligible and Lizzie was pretty sure it included a couple of really good swear

words that her father would be appalled at. "All right honey, your gonna go with

Josie now, o.k.?" Cherish asked. Lily nodded. "I'll tell you later" Lizzie promised. "You

better" Josie said. Because they both knew once Cherish got her hands on Severus

Snape, she wouldn't let go. "Why would you do that to Lily? Hm? Come on, nothin'?

Well, why don't I jog your memory" Cherish threatened, brandishing her wand,

backing him against the cold hard stone wall. " I was just mad…" Snape trailed off

because he could tell Cherish was going to punish him no matter what. He was right,

of course. Lizzie whistled. "Left him nothing to fight with, did you." She said,

amused. And that was how Lily got added to the pair. Josie became part of the group

in second year when they pulled her out of a tight spot. They were the unofficial

underground police. Pranking the Marauders when they got out of hand, hexing

people when they did something wrong. They were the minorities savior, and no

one even knew their names until fourth year, but even then it was only because all

of them were now in their adult bodies. That was the year James Potter started

asking Lily out, the year Josie got her boyfriend, and the year Sirius Black became a

ladies' man. It was also the year the Marauders found out about Remus, confirming

what the girls suspected ages ago. And through all that, to Sirius, Elizabeth was just

another face in the crowd. He never made the connection from his childhood friend

to the mysterious pranker to the pretty Griffindor in his Charms class that didn't

hold quite enough allure for him yet. But all of that was about to change. In their

seventh year the Order started recruiting everyone of age, including one Sirus Black

and Elizabeth Skyvowe. After all, with Dumbledore and Voldemort, how could things

stay the same?