Disclaimer: People might just think that I own the rights to the HP series. I don't. (Idiots.) J.K Rowling owns all the characters except Isabella Lott (she's mine) and everything recognizable from the Harry Potter series. And if I did own the HP series, I would never have let Fred, Colin Creevey, Cedric Diggory, Sirius or Remus or Tonks die. And I would own a unicorn named Bob.

BTW, I am now going to use past tense. It's easier to write.

Chapter 4- Surprise Parties Gone Wrong- James Potter

"Why would she ever even consider dating that jerk?" I sighed.

"Now, now, James." My best friend, Sirius, said. He had long, black hair that ended right above his grey eyes, and was tall. "You know you only say that because he asked Evans out."

"He just doesn't know how wonderful and perfect she is!" I grumbled, knowing that what Sirius said was true.

"So, what do you guys want to do tomorrow?" my other friend, Peter Pettigrew said. Peter was short, and, well, chubby, let's say, with brown hair and small, watery eyes.

"Uh, well, um , I have to go and see my mum. She—er—sick." Remus Lupin, another one of my friends, said. He had brown eyes and dirty blond hair.

Together, we were the Marauders. Sirius was the funny one, Remus the smart one, Peter the… well, Pete was Pete, and I was the one that actually set the others up to do all of our pranks. We were like brothers, and we did almost everything together.

Anyway, Remmy Poo (he hated it when we called him that) gave us that excuse every month, but there's no way anybody could be sick that often. We didn't really believe it, but we let it go; knowing that if Remus didn't want to tell us something, we shouldn't try and poke our noses in it.

"Sorry guys, but I've got to go ahead and make sure everything's ready." I said.

I ran off to Gryffindor Tower to make sure everything was exactly where it needed to be. Satisfied with how it looked, I waited for the guys to come back. Around five o'clock, Sirius and Pete stepped through the portrait hole.

"Moony already went home to his mum." Sirius explained, seeing my confused face.

"Oh, okay." I said, "In that case, could you guys help me put up these streamers? It has to look perfect when Evans walks through."

Sirius and Peter nodded, and started helping me. "You know, Jamie," Sirius said with a groan, "I don't know why you keep on going after this one bird. Sure, she's pretty, but she is seriously going to hex you one of these days. But if you really want to do this, we should hurry up. I heard her telling Alice Smith that she had to get something from her dorm. She could be walking through there any moment now."

As it turned out, she didn't come to the Common Room for half an hour, which was lucky, seeing as I still hadn't finished up yet.

When she stepped out of the portrait hole at about 3 o'clock, carelessly chatting with Isabella Lott, the confetti cannons blasted out colored pieces of paper all around the Common Room. The Quidditch figures started dancing around Lily's head. Sirius played "I Want to Hold Your Hand' by the Beatles. It looked quite spectacular.

Lily looked very surprised, then shocked, and then angry.

This is the part when I ran away while she screamed for my bloody murder.

But as it turned out, she didn't run at me, or anything of the sort. She just pointed her wand at me, said "Avis" and "Oppugno" and suddenly half a dozen birds were pecking at every bit of my exposed skin.

Evans then calmly walked towards the girls' dormitory, leaving me with all of the bloody birds. After about a minute, they disappeared.

"Well," Sirius said sarcastically. "That went well."

And thus ends chapter four. Let's crank up the reviews, people! Then maybe I'll reward you with a cookie. But only if you review ;)

Hope you enjoyed, and look out for the next chapter, due next Sunday. Sorry it's so short...

Adiós, amigos!

Alexandra