Chapter 4

CHAPTER 4: The Other Head

Disclaimer: I am not JK Rowling, so I obviously do not own anything she brilliantly came up with. I do, however, like to imagine what the rest of her world is like.

Lily, Emma, Sophie, and Alice boarded the train as the whistle was blowing and walked down the corridor to find an empty compartment. There was none.

However, Remus led them back to a compartment with three boys occupying it: Potter, Black, and Pettigrew.

"Why don't you all just join us here, your trunks are already here, and they won't bother you much I promise," Remus said staring pointedly at James and Sirius.

"Sure. Might as well. There are not many other places to sit on the train left." Sophie said.

Lily looked about to protest, but Alice cut her off.

"It's not like you'll get bugged by them, you need to go the prefect meeting now."

"Fine. I'll see you guys later."Lily said, defeated.

She pulled out her Head Girl badge out of her trunk which was right overhead, beckoned for Remus to come with her and said goodbye to her friends before leaving the compartment to make her way up the train.

As soon as she left, James remembered something.

He went over to dig through his trunk, and after a minute or so, he came up with a golden Head Boy badge wrapped tightly in an old, smelly sock from the bottom of his trunk.

"I almost forgot!"He exclaimed, and raced out of the compartment and the remaining seventh years could hear him cussing as he ran down the corridor.

They stood frozen in place for a few seconds before laughing and started talking.

"How did HE get head boy!"

"What the bloody hell is Dumbledore on!"

"Lily's not going to be happy."

That last statement was made by a concerned looking Alice. Pity for Lily was clearly written on her face.

"On the other hand, Prongs might actually be able to show Evans how much he loves her finally." Sirius said thoughtfully.

"I do have to admit they look cute together," Alice allowed, "But unless Potter can, his other choice is not pleasant."

"They have to live together in the Head's dorms. . ." Sophie realized, trailing off, "So who wants to bet they'll be together by Christmas, or maybe Easter? I am going for Easter. He needs to improve a lot."

Everyone just stared at her before placing his or her own bets.

Meanwhile, at the front of the train outside the Prefects cabin, James looked in and realized the prefects were just taking their seats, and half of them had just walked in, too.

He was not that late.

He looked around and sized up the room's occupants.

The two Gryffindor prefects were Moony and a fifth year girl named Alice Wilkes. Hufflepuff prefects were Gilderoy Lockhart and Glenda Chittock. The Slytherin prefects were Miranda McNeil and Walden MacNair. Then finally, the Ravenclaw prefects were Dorcas Meadows and Caradoc Dearborn.

They were actually all pretty good. The Slytherins were some of the nicer ones, and even though Walden's brother was a Death Eater, Walden was not.

Gilderoy Lockhart was a bloody bastard in Jame's opinion, but other than that none of the prefects were horrible.

Nevertheless, Lily was going to be MAD when she figured out he was Head Boy!

James reluctantly pulled his badge from his pocket and opened the compartment door. When he went up to the front, Lily noticed him. She had been telling all of the prefects to get a seat and to stop talking so she could start explaining what they needed to do.

"Potter, you aren't supposed to be in here. Do you need to tell Remus something, because I bet it can wait until after we are done in here," Lily said, slightly frustrated at him. She expected something like that from him anyway.

"Technically, I do want to talk to Remus, but I also need to be in here. I'm the Head Boy." James said.

He showed her the badge.

"Who did you steal it from? You better not have him locked up in a closet somewhere or I'll be even madder at you." Lily asked, suspicious.

At his expression, Lily turned to Remus who was watching their exchange with amused looking eyes. More like every single prefect in the compartment was silently watching the two head's exchange looking amused.

Everyone at Hogwarts were too familiar with James and Lily's shouting matches (It was rather hard to miss) as well as the pranks and revenge each one of them carried out on one another.

"How are you Head Boy?" Lily shouted angrily.

"You are a Marauder for Merlin's sake! You are an arrogant prick who is immature! You do not have the sense God gave a goat! It is probably a mistake somehow. Professor Dumbledore could not have possibly made you Head Boy! He must have been high or something!" Lily ranted.

"Evans, I am Head Boy and we are sharing a dormitory. Dumbledore was on something when he chose me for the position, but I am happy he did. You look so pretty when you are mad." James told her.

James's comment seemed only to make Lily even madder at James, but she took a deep breath.

"Prick" she told James as she turned away from him. She was determined to do her duty.

"Okay," Lily told the prefects who were all watching her and James, "Sorry about that."

"Okay," she said again, "Welcome back to Hogwarts and congratulations on being appointed prefects. You all are pretty much supposed to patrol the train to make sure nothing too drastic happens and the first years are all okay. I will assign the boy and girl from each house to patrol together for a half hour shift. It takes about another two hours to get to Hogwarts."

"Does anyone have any preferences as to what shift you are assigned?" she asked.

The Slytherin boy prefect, Walden MacNair, called out, "Slytherin wants to go first."

"Alright. Then if no one else minds, the shifts will be Slytherin for the first half hour, Ravenclaw for the second half hour, Gryffindor for the third half hour, and Hufflepuff for the last half hour. Do you have any questions about that?"

Almost everyone had done this before, and there were no questions.

"As you all know, as prefects, you have the authority to take away house points and also give house points. Try not to give or take away more than 10 points. If you misuse this privilege, you will have it taken away. You can also give out detentions, but it is up to the teachers to decide what the detentions are. Thank you for listening. Any questions?"

James cut in, "Make sure to point the first years to Hagrid when they get off the train, and also, escort them to their common rooms after the feast. You all know how to do this. The passwords for each common room are on these slips of paper," he said, grapping the slips off the table in the back of the room and handing them out.

Lily looked stunned he had taken part in the meeting responsibly.

"How did you know about the passwords? No one is supposed to know! You did not get the note from Dumbledore next to them for me did you?" Lily asked, completely confused.

James had in fact see this happen before. No, he had not been a prefect, but he had snuck in and stolen the passwords before under his invisibility cloak. Lily couldn't know about that though, so he said instead,

"I am a marauder. We know all the secrets."

Then James proceeded to put on his infamous 'marauder smirk' as he had heard Sophie call it before.

Of course, it would piss Lily off, but in reality, it was completely true. Yes, it was because he was a marauder that he had needed the passwords. Yes, they knew so much about the school and what went on because they needed to because they were marauders.

James was a marauder and that is what they did.

Lily was pissed off.

"You arrogant bastard, I was trying to get an honest answer and you have to say some cocky piece of. . ."

Lily trailed off as she realized she was still in the Prefect Compartment and was currently being intently watched by all eight prefects.

"Excuse me. All right, Slytherin prefects, you are patrolling. Walden, Miranda, if you have any problems, come find me. I will be walking around every once in a while. The same goes for the rest of you when it's your turns."

The two Slytherins gave her hostile looks, but otherwise nodded in agreement.

"Okay, dismissed." Lily told everyone.

Lily went over to where Remus had gone over with Potter.

"Are you ready to walk back, Remus? And Potter too because he will come anyway I suppose. Stupid Head Boy." Lily asked clearly still mad.