So here we all were in the ROR. Lily was busying herself with turning the Athalas into a pulp. Sirius, Peter, James, and myself were all standing around watching Lily make this strange mixture. She was done in about 15 minutes. She handed each of us a bowl and then stepped back.

"Okay, you have to eat this and then immediately think of your animagus form. That's all I could find so I hope you guys know what you're doing." Lily said.

"We don't have to eat this every time, right?" James asked, sniffing the stuff with a wrinkled nose.

I sniffed it a little too, out of curiosity. It smelt like a mixture of fire and sugar. Kind of like the sugar was burning. I had a strange feeling that it wouldn't taste like sugar though.

"On three, then?" Sirius said, looking down at his tiny bowl like it was his death sentence.

James, Peter and I nodded and then Remus started a slow count down. I tipped the mixture into my mouth and swallowed quickly. But I still got a taste of the putrid mix. It tasted something like puke. But I swallowed hard and then thought about a mockingbird immediately. I felt the painful sensation of my bones shifting. I screamed in pain and I heard Lily say something. But the pain was too intense to understand it. I felt my muscles shrinking and moving. I felt my skull contracting to a small size. And then, as suddenly as it started, it stopped. I opened my mouth to say something but the only thing that came out was a coo like a bird. I held out what I thought was my arms and looked at them. They were wings.

"Can you understand me Sky?" Lily asked me.

I looked up to see that she was towering over me. I nodded my head in recognition.

"Good, at least you aren't doing something stupid like chasing your tail feathers or something." Lily said.

She cleared her throat and looked to her left and I saw a gigantic black dog chasing its tail.

"Sirius, would you stop that?" Remus asked.

Sirius stopped and sat down like a dog. I got a good look at him then. He was about the size of a Great Dane, but looked like a combination of a black lab and a panther. I spread my wings out again and then flapped them. I started to fly. I did a few laps around the ceiling to get used to turning and flying straight and the like. I looked down and saw a beautiful chocolate brown stag standing around. It was stomping its hooves agitated and/or confused. I assumed that James was trying to get used to the feeling of walking on four legs. I let out a low note of laughter. I heard a squeak from below me. Sirius was growling at what looked like a rat. I let out a higher note to show that I was laughing harder. Mentally I was rolling on the mental floor laughing. I quickly did a dive and then thought of my human self. I had the feeling of immense burning go through my body, but then it was done quicker and it was less painful this time. I was able to land on the floor rather smoothly. I walked over to Sirius and Peter. I picked up the rat form of Peter and made sure Sirius wouldn't hurt him.

"Be nice, Sirius. It's Peter not some little rat off the street." I scolded.

Sirius transformed back into his human form and I set Peter down.

"You know, just because I transform into a dog, doesn't mean that you can scold me like one." Sirius said with a smirk on his face.

I walked over to him, swaying my hips a little.

"Really now?" I asked. I put my hands around his neck kind of held myself there.

"Yes really." Sirius said. He put his hands around my waist.

"Well, that's just too bad." I said, in a smooth voice, flashing a smirk of my own.

"I guess it is." Sirius said.

He leaned in to kiss me but then I transformed right in his arms. I flew up high so he couldn't reach me. I heard Lily and Remus burst out in laughter. I flew around triumphantly. I was singing to show my victory.

"Fine, bird brain. Come down here and we'll see who's teasing who." Sirius called to me.

I transform again in mid-air and the only thing that I felt was the sensation that my knuckles were cracking.

"Fine, be that way dog breath." I said sticking my tongue out at him.

Before I could do anything, Sirius had pressed his lips around mine and was playing with my tongue in a kiss. I just couldn't help but melt. I kissed him back with a fraction of the passion that he was using. He somehow sensed that I didn't want to kiss in front of our friends, so he broke away quickly.

"You really should learn to keep that tongue in your mouth. Or you never know what might happen." Sirius said with a smirk.

"Okay love bird and dog. We need to discuss some things." James said. He had transformed out of his stag form and had his hands on his hips.

"Like what, Mr. Potter?" I asked in that motherly type voice I was so good at.

"First off, what are we going to do about Hogsmeade?" Sirius asked.

"We could go Friday."

"The trip is in a week." James and Lily said at the same time.

"Let me rephrase that. JAMES what are we going to do about Hogsmeade?" Sirius asked.

"We could go on Friday. Probably in the morning considering that we have Quidditch try-outs after dinner." James said, shrugging his shoulders and motioning to me.

"Sounds good to me." Remus said and Peter agreed.

"What are you people planning to do? The Hogsmeade trip isn't until next week. How are you going to get there before then?" Lily asked, suspiciously.

"Are you still going to stick to your original oath to NOT snitch on us for being up to no good?" I asked.

"Well, yes I do." Lily said uncertainly. She obviously was regretting taking that oath now.

"I don't believe her. She could be trying to pull a fast one on us." Peter said. Remus nodded his head.

"Prove it Tiger." I said with a smirk.

Lily stood looking at her feet for a little while. Then she suddenly looked up and then at James.

"What are you-"

James couldn't finish his sentence. This was because Lily caught him in a lip lock that could have been, well, Sirius's and mine. She was getting very into it I had to admit. It was almost like she was enjoying it. But before James could come out of shock and kiss her back, she broke away.

"Happy now?" Lily panted.

"I'm not so sure." James said with a sly grin on his face.

"Put a sock in it Prongs." Remus said, smacking James on the shoulder.

"So what are you up to?" Lily asked.

She had an eager look on her face and looked really excited for a little mischief. I think that was my doing. I am such a bad influence.

"We want to go to Hogsmeade to get the best outfits we can before the rest of the girls." I said.

"Well, how do we get there?" Lily asked.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Sirius said.

I had taken the map out of my backpack, via wordless and wandless magic and held it behind my back. Sirius had said the password, seeing what I was doing. Suddenly a table appeared and I spread the map out on the table.

"Where did you find this?" Lily asked, amazing at our map.

"You know those days-"

"And nights-"

"That we disappeared for hours at a time?" Remus, James, and Peter –in that order—said, interrupting each other.

"Well, yes." Lily said.

"AND you know those times where we would be sitting, huddled around a table in the corner together arguing?" Sirius asked.

"And you remember the time that James turned a kid's face funny colors for calling you a Mudblood?" I asked.

"Yes I remember those. But how is that relevant?" Lily asked.

"We were making this." Sirius, James, Peter, Remus and myself all said in unison.

"You were making a map at the time of James being a prat and turning a kid's face blue?" Lily asked.

"Well, no but I came up with idea then." I said with a smile on my face.

"So explain to me WHY we need this thing?" Lily asked, getting back to the original subject.

"It has every secret passage way and secret room in this castle on it-"

"along with a handy little spell that shows where people are." James said, interrupting me.

"Really?" Lily asked, looking closer at the map.

"But my point is, we take any one of the 7 passages-"

"Well, 6 because one of them leads to Remus's shack" Sirius said, also interrupting me.

"BUT we take this passage to get to Honeydukes-"

"or we take this passage to the outskirts of town."

"GUYS!" I said.

Remus had interrupted me this time and it was really starting to bother me.

"But I think our safest bet would be this one that Remus pointed out. Less chance of getting caught and the mirror is in a rather unused section of the castle." I said, finally not getting interrupted.

"This is remarkable. And you did this in how long?" Lily asked. She was looking around the map with careful eyes.

"Oh don't bother looking for us on here. Since we're in the ROR we aren't on the map." James said.

"We decided to keep this room our secret." I said with a wink.

"So you want to go when?" Lily asked.

"Friday would be best. Right after lunch until right before dinner I think would be best. People wouldn't be too surprised to see us disappear. Probably think we're up to no good." Sirius said with a chuckle.

"So are you in or out?" I asked Lily.

"You bet your ass that I'm in." Lily said with a devilish smile.

I have really got to stop corrupting that girl.

So we went to Hogsmeade and got the most beautiful dress on the face of the Earth. I loved mine because it fit me really well and looked great on me. Lily's was amazing and I would have gotten it if I hadn't have found my dress. Try-outs were the bomb. I made Seeker and I had practice almost every night after dinner. I had practice on Sunday too, which limited the time I got to spend with Sirius. I had to constantly remind him that we were just testing things out and Cloud had to approve first in front of me before it was official. But the time flew by rather quickly. I still went to Hogsmeade and spent a lot of the day with Sirius. We stayed in the 3 Broomsticks most of the time, but I ditched him to go Christmas shopping. I got a really nice set of broomstick supplies for James, who made Chaser, a book for Remus called "Guide to Making Your Own Potions: How NOT to Have it all Blow up in your face." He was trying to make a potion to cure or help his issue. I got Peter this amazing set of wizard's chess pieces and then I bought Sirius a book called "Magical Pranks for the Ultimate Prankster." I knew that he would love it and we would definitely have to use a lot of these tricks before we let Hogwarts. But time flew by and before I knew it, it was Christmas Eve. More importantly than the fact that it was the day before Christmas, it was my birthday and a Saturday. I had been working with the Quidditch team and Cloud on preparing an act for the club part of the ball. That Saturday was the final chance that we had to work on it.