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Chapter 3: Future Ambitions

Many weeks has passed since the morning Peter ate the apple snail bean, Remus got his notebook back and James and Sirius both had been thumped by Lily. Although Lily's tutoring had convinced Flitwick to take James off academic probation, he wasn't out of the frying pan yet. Exams were right around the corner, and after the seventh years, the sixth years were at their highest stress level yet. Believing that they could cover their faults with teamwork, the Gryffindor sixth years had formed a study session one rainy evening in the common room. James and Sirius were sharing the arms of one of the comfy lounge chairs occupied by Lily. Remus and Mary were together by their feet and Peter was across from Lily, a large pile of books in his hands. Frank and Alice were sprawled together to James's right and Lily's friend Emmeline occupied the other chair in front of the fire. The lot had momentarily stopped to laugh at something Peter has said and only now was Lily pausing to round them all up again.

"Really, we are never going to get anything done—" Lily began, before Frank cut in.

"Lily, we've gone through everything at least a dozen times. Charms, Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology…"

"Yeah, and DADA and even bloody History of Magic," James added to Frank's argument.

Lily crossed her arms. "But what about Astronomy, and Runes?"

"Those are classes only you take, Evans," said Sirius, rolling his eyes. "We Aurors don't need all that."

Emmeline came quickly to Lily's defense. "What about Muggle Studies?" she asked firmly, pulling a slim textbook from Peter's pile. They all laughed at that, except Emmeline and Lily, who both shared a look of hurt.

"Now, what in the name of Merlin am I gonna need Muggle Studies for?" Sirius barked from behind his Herbology notes.

They all expected Lily to counter him, but Remus spoke instead, hands stretched behind his head. "Well if your Auror training ever goes awry, I daresay you may find Muggle relations a very rewarding job at the Ministry."

The room fell silent, anxious of Sirius's reaction. He turned all the way around in his seat with a look of utter betrayal, and Emmeline snorted to hold back her oncoming fit of laughter. Sirius rolled his eyes, and Remus threw back his head and laughed.

The common room exploded in laughter, frightening some idling first years sitting by the window.

Sirius slapped Remus on the back with a wink.

And even Lily couldn't help but join in.

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The sixth years left the common room at around midnight, having gotten in an extra hour of Muggle Studies review in after Sirius' remark. The girls waved the boys off to bed, Lily standing by the girl's doorway waiting for Alice and Mary to kiss their boys good night. James looked back hopefully, but Lily had already gone back down to the common room to fulfill her nightly prefect duties and make sure the younger students were all off to bed, too.

However, sleeping was the last thing on any of the boys' minds.

They five jumped onto their four-poster beds, pulling back the curtains and pulling out boxes of candy and sweets from every corner of the room. Frank spoke up, pulling his pajamas from the drawer.

"I've never taken Muggle Studies, but all that stuff Lily talked about was kind of cool. I mean, muggles really get big metals boats to fly in the air?"

"Airplanes," Remus corrected, already in his pajamas and taking back his box of beans from Peter.

Peter scowled, thought for a second and then said, "Sirius, if you didn't want to be an Auror, what would you do with yourself after Hogwarts?"
"Easy, I'd open a nightclub."

The five boys took this time to stare at Sirius.

"Merlin," James said coolly, "that would be great."

"Yeah, you know that old muggle department store down the road from Grimmauld Place…" James nodded, knowing that no one else knew what Sirius was talking about. "Well, it's the perfect place for my club. I've already thought of the name." And with a twirl of his wand, a great banner appeared and hung in the air in the center of the room. The letters glowed with a neon red.

"Blimey," said Peter.

"Wicked," commented Frank.

"Why have I never heard about this before?" whined James.

"Oh, Boy." Sighed Remus.

"Presenting," Sirius sang, brandishing his wand as the neon letters changed color. "Padfoot's Hot Spot: the Hottest Spot in London."

"And you have to wonder why you don't get all the girls…"

James jumped over to Remus's bed, knocking him sideways. "What, Moony? Don't believe in your best mate's biggest dream?"

Remus rebuffed. "Being an Auror is a dream, you marrying Evans is a dream, but…" he squinted his eyes against the violent colors lighting up the room. "This is pure insanity. I expect you would want us to leave our perfectly legitimate jobs and come work with you…?"

"Of course," Sirius jumped, breaking the spell. The banners faded away and the room went dark again. They all laughed, conjuring images of James on a guitar and Peter on drums, Lily, Alice and Emmeline serenading on stage and Sirius on the bar. "And we'd have free Butterbeer for every Gryffindor…."

The boys eventually began to dose off. James pulled off his glasses and placed them beside his wand on the night stand. He thought of they way Remus had called his love for Lily a dream when every time he saw her, he had to pinch himself to make sure it was real. James remembered cursing Peter's snoring in the next bed over, but the rest of the night was lost in dreams.

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