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Well, I've started college (as in grade 11) and I've got work up to my neck. At the moment I'm on one of my half hour breaks, which is due to finish in five minutes.

This chapter is really just a filler, but hopefully from this chapter you'll get a bit of an idea of what is going to happen in the future.

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So... for the disclaimer today...

Ginny – hey, isn't this Harry's parents?

Snatch – um, yeah

G- AWESOME.

S- um, Gin, disclaimer?

G – yeah, oops, sorry. *hem hem* - Snatch wishes me to tell you that none of the characters in this story are hers, and that she is not J.K Rowling in disguise. If she was, she wouldn't have to stop writing fanfiction and go do her Psychology assignment.

S- Yeah, I own nothing.

'So Lily, where exactly is the head commons?' James asked as they walked up the stairs together. Lily laughed.

Since you have that map of yours, I thought you would be able to find it.' James looked at her, surprised.

'How'd you know about the map?'

Lily snorted. 'I may not have been on first name terms with you in the past years, but you have a voice like a foghorn.' She laughed 'and Remus told me about it last year.'

'You seem to get all your information from Remus,' James sighed. 'There appears to be nothing you don't know. We should just make you an honorary Marauder and be done with it. By the way, sorry about being late for the meeting. I couldn't get Sirius away from the muggle tourist shops.'

Lily was taken aback by the apology, and took a couple of seconds to regain her voice. 'That's all right. I probably could have handled the situation anyway.'

When had James become so nice? Lily wondered. She had had several conversations with him in the past couple of days, and none of them, she reflected, had involved him calling her Lilyflower or any of those infuriating nicknames; she getting annoyed whenever he spoke; he asking her out several times; or her eventually punching him in the face.

Oh well, Lily thought, it made a nice change.

Lily was pulled out of her reverie when she crashed into James, who had stopped at the end of a corridor.

'Which way?' he asked.

'Um, err, left,' she replied.

They walked in silence for several minutes, Lily leading the way. When they walked past the statue of the one eyed witch on the third floor, James seemed to remember something, and spoke.

'Hey Lily, I know you only met us at Diagon alley in the last 2 weeks of holidays, but did you notice anything strange about Sirius's behaviour? I mean, stranger than normal...'

Lily turned around. 'You mean you think something's happened in his family?'

James shook his head

'No, he would have told me if it had been family related. It's just that, he's been acting rather odd lately, and whenever I try to bring it up he always changes the subject.'

Lily leant against the stone wall, thinking.

I think you're right. He has been acting weirdly. I mean, when we were in Madame Malkins buying Peters robes, one of the assistants was very pretty, you know, someone who Sirius would generally flirt with, and he didn't do anything, he just stood there, looking off into space!'

Lily thought for a moment, and then suddenly, to James's surprise, she giggled.

'What?'

'You don't think it's a girl that's caused all this?'

James stared

'What, you mean, Sirius is in love? He's ever had any problems with girls before. Sirius has always been fully aware of the affect he has on members of the opposite sex... and he knows how to act around them, you know, get them to like him. He's very aware, Sirius is... unlike dear Moony... Relationship expert my arse.'

'Sorry, what?' Lily been looking around at all the pictures on the walls, and had not been listening to James speak.

'Nothing, just thinking aloud.'

'Ah ok. Well, we're nearly there; it's just around this corner. Don't you think that it's cool how it moves?'

'Say what?'

'The Head Commons. It moves depending on which house the head boy and girl are from.'

James looked surprised. 'What happens if the head boy and girl are from different houses?'

Lily frowned slightly. 'I don't know, but thankfully, we don't have that problem. Anyway, here we are.'

They had stopped outside a beautifully carved wooden door.

'There's no portrait or anything?'

'No, I think we just have to say the password.'

James turned to Lily. 'And what, pray tell, is the password, Head Girl?'

'Thestral'

As soon as Lily spoke, the wooden door opened, revealing a beautiful windowed common room with comfy looking armchairs, a large fireplace, and shelves upon shelves of books.

'Woah.'

'This is quite something.'

'How do you feel about head boy and girls now?' Lily teased.

'We are the luckiest people EVER.' James breathed, awestruck.

For the next half hour, Lily and James examined every inch of the commons, admiring its luxuries.

'Wow, have you seen all these books? Remus is going to go nuts.'

'We get a bathroom each! Finally I'll have space for my own bar of soap!'

'I wonder where this leads?' Lily said curiously, peering into a small passage that lead off the common room.

'To Gryffindor tower, I expect.' Replied James lazily. He had collapsed into one of the armchairs, and it looked as though he might fall asleep.

'Ok, well, I'm going to check out my dorm, and then I might go down to see what everyone's doing.'

Lily climbed the spiral staircase. At the top was a small landing with two doors. One read 'James Potter' while the other 'Lily Evans.'

Then it hit her like a wave: she would be spending the entire year in very close proximity to James Potter. Two years ago, if someone had told her this, she would have screamed and pegged toast at them. But now? Now she didn't mind so much. She wasn't sure exactly how it had happened, but over the last two years, James seemed to have deflated his head a lot. Probably thanks to Remus, she thought.

Yeah, so as you can see, everything seems to be coming back to Remus (he's one of my favourite characters)

I really want this story to be about all the marauders, and the people around them at Hogwarts, rather than just about Lily and James. So Sirius's lack of attention to girls, Remus's obliviousness to the fact that half of the girls at Hogwarts want to be locked in a broom cupboard with him (I would), and Lily and James eventually getting together (it will be dramatic) are just some of the many stories within this story.

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- Till next time, where Lily and James meet the prefects, and someone gets hit a lot of times on the head with an Encyclopedia Britannica,

Snatch