James's attention perked immediately. He stood to follow them down the corridor when he remembered something. Reaching into his bag, he pulled out his Invisibility Cloak and put it on. Silently and invisibly making his way down the train, he heard Sirius's unusually loud voice carrying from inside a compartment ahead. James stood by the door and pressed his ear against the glass and listened.

"Is it true," asked Sirius, "Lily actually really likes Prongs?"

"Yes," said Remus, "at least from what I heard, it is."

"But she's outwardly hated him for years!" Frank protested. "Are you sure she's not faking it?"

"Lily would never fake such a think as liking James," Remus told them sensibly. "She is a very kind person and she knows James had liked her before. Even though she doesn't seem to like him very much, she would never toy with him and claim to like him unless she genuinely did."

At this, James's heart began to race with excitement and he looked inside the compartment in disbelief. He saw Sirius, Remus, and Frank all looking expectantly at Peter.

Peter's face was aflame and he was stuttering, "Oh. My turn . . . right. So - er, I guess . . . well. Oh! I thought – "he was looking intently at Sirius who seemed to be mouthing something to him. " – she was . . . a mule . . . a moon – Oh right! I thought she was immune to all kinds of affection, " he finished haltingly.

James frowned in confusion. This was not the sort of thing Peter was likely to say . . . He shrugged mentally and dismissed the thought.

"Has she told anyone?" Frank asked Remus.

"No," he replied, "and she most certainly never will. How can she? No one will believe her. For years, she has scorned him and publicly ridiculed him. She can't just suddenly say that she now really likes him, can she?"

"But she hasn't done that sort of thing since like 4th year!" Sirius protested.

"I know," Remus answered. "That's what makes things interesting because we don't know that maybe in the last year her feelings for him have changed."

"Are you sure she hasn't told him?" Frank asked.

"Of course!" Sirius exclaimed. "If she had, Prongs wouldn't have taken her seriously and would have made fun of her to no end. Surely, he would've told us if she had."

"It could be good if he knew about it by someone other than her, though," remarked Remus.

"As I said," Sirius reminded them, "he wouldn't take her seriously and would torment her unreasonably for it."

"She's really pretty and very kind and extremely smart except in liking James," Remus said.

"I actually feel sorry for her," admitted Frank.

"Maybe we should tell Prongs ourselves," Peter suggested.

"NO!" all three boys chorused at once.

"We must never tell him," said Sirius firmly. "If he finds out, poor Lily will pay dearly for it."

"We should let her wear it out first," Frank said. "She'll sooner get over him than actually have the chance to see him liking her."

"I don't think she could have found a more unworthy person to like in all of Hogwarts," Remus said pityingly.

"Where is James anyway?" asked Frank.

"I dunno," said Sirius, "he said he'd find us when we got on the train. I don't know what's taking so long."

James, at the moment, was practically skipping back to his compartment, his mind swirling with this new information and a dazedly happy grin on his face.

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