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azphxbrd: Yeah, shopping and girls…and yeah James isn't all alone. I kind of skip around this coming chapter, because I want to get them back to Hogwarts, so the real story can begin. *Queue dramatic music*


Chapter 4

Two weeks into her stay with the Evans family Krys continued to be fascinated by Muggle technology, from cars, to blenders to televisions.

On one particular day Krys and Lily decided to brew a huge batch of Veritaserum, just for the fun of it to see if they could do it. They managed to get all the ingredients and keep a watchful eye on it for a full month, as the recipe was immensely complicated and called for certain ingredients which could only be found during a certain moon, before getting it just right.

They decided to celebrate by going to the near by playground and goofing off on the swings.

"So you knew Snape before Hogwarts?" asked Krys.

"Yeah, we met on this playground actually. He lives down on Spinner's End." replied Lily swinging her legs in and out on the piece of rubber attached to chains.

"What was he like?"

"He was, just the same as he was on the Hogwarts Express. Why do you care all of a sudden? You tied him to a tree in his nude."

Krys tired not to laugh. "Yeah, I did…but I had a good reason. He was picking on a first year. He never picked on a first year after that. I do feel bad for him. James and Sirius did seem to have some sort of vendetta against him."

"Lily, phone!" called Mrs. Evans.

"I'll be back." said Lily and ran to the house.

Krys leaned back on the swings and began swinging forwards and back, forward and back, higher and higher until a boy with greasy black hair and a black cloak came out from the bushes.

"What are you doing here?" he questioned.

"I'm swinging, Snape." he raised an eyebrow at her. "I'm visiting Lily." they starred at one another for a while, neither one saying a word. "I'm sorry about tying you nude to a tree third year."

"I'm over it." said Snape. "I never did say thank you for helping me avoid the prank."

"It's not necessary. It's the least I can do after five years of torment."

A voice called from the Evans residence. "KRYS, COME ON, I'LL INTRODUCE YOU TO MY FRIENDS!"

"I guess I better go." said Krys contemplating what she was planning to do next.

"Uh…yeah…. I'll see you on the train, then?" She nodded and got up from the swing. She quickly pecked the future potion's master on the cheek and ran to Lily, leaving a confused Severus Snape.

The two and even Petunia went to the city where cars honked and people walked around shopping. A girl with long strawberry hair ran forward when she saw Lily.

"Lily Evans." she cheered. She wore short and a long shirt which covered all but an inch of the jeans.

"Clare Baxter, how are you?" asked Lily.

"Oh you know I'm well, I go to the local high school and Petunia here tells me that you go to a special school."

"I do," said Lily. "Clare, this is Krys, my friend from school. Krys this is Clare, I went to primary school with her."

"So tell me about this school. Can anyone go?"

"No, not anyone can go. There is a brutal application procedure. It's a school for magically gifted students." explained Lily, trying her best not to blow any secrets.

"Explains why Lily got in." said Clare. "So where is this school?"

"It's a ways away, it's a very old school." said Krys. "My family has been going there for generations."

"Right batch of geniuses in your family, Krys?" asked Clare.

"Something like, that." Lily and Clare caught up as they went to the bookstore.

The books in the muggle world were an eye full. They had fancy, creative hard covers, and equally creative soft covers. The soft covers had smaller printing and they cost less. They too were broken down by section. There were so many sections and subsections that Krys couldn't help but stand in lure of it all.

"What's the matter with this one?" asked Clare, "Acting like she's never seen a bookstore before."

Krys fixed herself up. "Lils, I'll be in the history section."

"We'll join you after. I want to get some literature to read, once you leave me."

The girls came back to the Evans residence with tons of books. Krys got a lot of books on muggle history. It amazed her how muggles knew so much and yet so little at the same time.


Krys was the last to arrive at the Potter-Tinsley manor for the annual Marauder vacation at the start of August. She had a lot of fun at Lily's and even got to watch a football (Soccer for you Americans) game on their strange television devises.

The four marauders greeted Krys as did her family. "Where did you go, Crescent?" asked Remus.

"I spent most of the summer with Lily." she turned sharply towards James. "And before you ask, no we did not spend the entire summer talking about you….we didn't even talk about you once."She lied a little. They had discussed James on the first night. But his ego was big enough without Krys's help.

Remus, Sirius, and Peter laughed. "Shall we head to the conference room to discuss our plan for the year?"

The others nodded and headed to the conference room in the east wing. It was decorated with portraits of former family members on both sides and had Gryffindor red covers around the windows. In the center of the room stood a large circular table and the marauders took their seats like knights of the round table with their names engraved on their chairs.

"Let the first meeting of the year begin." said James hitting the table with a gavel.

Krys could see Remus rolling his eyes. "First order of business is my cloak." Krys rolled her eyes and handed James his invisibility cloak. "Did Lily see it?"

"No!" more eye rolling. James didn't seem to give Lily enough credit. Krys was fairly certain Lily had figured out Remus's furry problem years ago. Granted it wasn't a tough thing to figure out. But most of the house was fairly oblivious. Lily was the smartest witch of their age.

"Second order of business is to finish the map of Hogwarts and to sign in with our Marauder names."

They spend the next four hours working on the map and one of the house elves had to bring them lunch otherwise they would have gone hungry.

"I'm astonished, James." said Remus. "You and Sirius actually got a lot of work done on this thing."

"We don't just goof off." insisted Sirius.

"Alright." said James hitting the gavel again. "Now we have to sign in."

They passed the map around and each Marauder signed it. "Moony, Wormtail, Crescent, Padfoot, and Prongs, Are Proud to Present the Marauder's Map." it read.

Finally they cast the locking charms on it and James placed it in the middle of the table. "Our next order of business is to discuss prank ideas for the year."

"Well….Lily and I did brew a whole two cauldrons full of Veritaserum." said Krys. "It wouldn't be difficult to slip a drop…or eight to each goblet at breakfast our first day back."

"Brilliant." said Peter. "Classes will be a laugh riot with everyone having to tell the truth."

"Heh, maybe you'll finally know if Lily fancies you or not." said Sirius.

James took out a piece of parchment and wrote it down as number one. "We could slip a bit of amortenia. Can you imagine the amount of pink we'd see in the great hall with everyone getting attracted to everyone else? We could even slip some to the teachers."

Krys tensed up at that. "W…we are not slipping any to the teachers, not after the fantasy revealing spell we cast at the beginning of last term. I still have nightmares."

The spell was a funny idea, but the repercussions of that were frightening. All the fantasies of the entire faculty popped up like giant talking bubbles.

"Fine, then." said Sirius. "We won't give it to the staff, but to everyone else, us too."

"W…what…w…why us?" asked Krys. "Personally I don't plan on taking it."

"You're such a bore, Krys. Look's like Evans rubbed off on you."

"I'd rather not embarrass myself and get detention because of it, thank you." snapped Krys.

"Oh, ho." began Peter. "Does Crescent fancy someone? I think she does."

"Come on Wormtail, blokes tend to run away from Krys." said Sirius

"Please keep talking like I'm not here." snapped Krys. "And whether I fancy someone or not is none of your concern."

"Alright, alright." said James hitting the gavel repeatedly. "The amortenia prank is in, but we do not have to take it. What next?"

"We could enchant stuffed animals to follow the Slytherins around and hug them." suggested Remus and the four other members shared a big laugh.

"Brilliant Moony." said James and wrote that down.

"We could ask the house elves to create a human head out of ham and have it delivered to the Slytherins." suggested Peter.

"Ewe….but with potential…maybe if the head was someone specific….like…perhaps this evil guy calling himself Voldemort." suggested James. "I heard all the Slytherins lined up to join his death…. oh Kryssy…I'm sorry I didn't….we all loved M…"

"Shut up, James and move on." said Remus.

"I think we'll be all set for a few months. Our nest official gaveled meeting will be a week before Halloween." said James sternly and hit the gavel. "This meeting is adjourned."

The other filed out of the room. "Krys, fancy a bit of Quidditch training before the season?"

"Be right there, James."

"Forgive me for prying." began Remus. "But you do fancy someone, don't you?"

"So what if I do?" snapped Krys and stopped dead in her tracks. "Oh, Moony, I'm sorry." he stopped too. "I guess I get defensive when people pry into my personal life. But yeah, I do fancy someone…possibly…I don't know yet...it's complicated."

That was good enough for him. He didn't ask who it was or why it was complicated. It wasn't his business to ask.
That's what Krys loved about Remus. He knew when to push and when to let things go, Sirius and James didn't.

He and Wormtail sat on the sidelines of the Quidditch pitch. Remus had a book in his hand and Peter was playing with the grass.

James released the snitch and Krys flew off on her broom after it as soon as it flew off. She caught it and landed.

Sirius was a beater and James began hitting bludgers at all ends of the field for Sirius to chase and hit away from dummies with Gryffindor scarves and at the dummies with Slytherin scarves.

One particular dummy had an annoying resemblance to Severus Snape, even though he wasn't on the house team.

Krys concentrated with her wand on the dummy while the others were occupied and muttered "Incendio."

The dummy burst into flame. Granted the marauders thought it was funny, although t hat wasn't Krys's intentions with the spell.

"WOOH, Snivelly is dead." laughed Sirius. Krys sighed.

"You guys play, I'm going to bed."

The following day their OWL letter arrived as they all sat in the dining room for lunch.

They all opened their envelopes and read their results out loud. Sirius got an O in everything excluding Ancient Runes; he got a D in Runes and History of Magic. Peter got an E on Defense and Charms and an A in others. He got a D in Transfiguration, Potions and Muggle Studies and a T in History of Magic. Moony got an E and O in everything. His E was in History of Magic. Krys and James got O's in everything with P's in History of Magic. Krys got an E in Runes and Muggle Studies. James got an A in Runes and an E in Muggle Studies.

Krys dashed off to write to Lily and a certain someone. James and Krys's parents were so proud that they bought them both new Quidditch gear as well as everything else they were going to need for the coming year.

At dinner the night before school was to start the five marauders and the Tinsley-Potter parents sat around talking, while eating a delicious feast prepared by Athena and Dorea.

"So have you thought about what you're going to do after Hogwarts?" asked Charlus Potter.

"Auror." said Sirius and James at the same time. Remus shook his head.

"What about you Remus?" asked Dorea

"I'm not sure…." the other four grimaced. They knew Remus had dreams of working in the ministry and then teaching, but with his furry little problem…..

"And you Peter?"

He was currently stuffing his face and muttered something along the lines of Ministry."

"Krys, what about you?" asked Athena

"Well…I want to play Quidditch professionally and after I may become an Auror. I mean someone has to keep those two from blowing up the Ministry." They laughed.


So okay here is another chapter. Next will have them on the train to Hogwarts and onwards….so much drama awaits…I can't wait. Ideas, if you have any are welcome. Please review. I saw how many people are reading this. I should be getting more reviews. They motivate me to write.