A Word from the Author: Hello everyone, it's jediclonecowgirl, with the tenth chapter of "Legacy of Windy". Before we start, I just gotta have a quick announcement to make: In the third chappie of this story I made some kind of a mistake and accidently placed Mary MacDonald with the first years, but in the end she is a third year already and on the Quidditch team of Gryffindor. I will probably fix it later on, but don't count on it. Hehe...

Dear Lily.

We can fully understand your worry about your two friends. Especially the one you told us about secondly. After the things you told us about the ways in his family, you have all rights to be worried about him, but we also think you should lie low on this one and most importantly: Don't let your worry get the best of you and start accusing his family of stuff they never did to Sirius. This is much likely to happen, when the worry of a person gets the best of him or her. We can not wait to hear all the things you have to tell us about, when you get back home.

Love,

Mum and Dad.

That was the reply of her parents to her last letter. Lily had gotten it at breakfast and had stuffed it into her pocket right afterwards. Stormrain had nipped her ear slightly, before flying off with the other owls. In the mornings owls always brought letters to students into the Great Hall. It was a mere ammount of days, before Christmas break would begin. Lily had to admit, that she was kinda surprised by the reply of her parents, but she was not about to show that to the boys, who were all sitting at the Gryffindor table with her.

"Man...days are sure flying by. I'm sure gonna miss you all as soon as Christmas break starts. This will be one joyful Christmas.", Sirius growled and took a bite from the Sandwich he was eating.

"If you want you can stay at my house at Christmas.", James offered.

"That's nice of you James, but I do not think, that my parents would approve of this. In fact...they will probably curse yours.", Sirius sighed.

Lily knew, that you could spend Christmas at Hogwarts, but they all had decided against it. Even though she had to admit, that the castle looked really really gorgeous. Hagrid, the gatekeeper, had decorated it all on his own, with stuff he had mostly gotten from his hut, which was on the grounds. Lily had to know it. One day she and the boys had taken it too far and hid the winterrobes of the entire Slytherin year in the Forbidden Forest. This had resulted in 40 points taken from Gryffindor, a bit too harsh, as James had put it, and Lily and the boys going into the forest to retrieve the clothes of their classmates. Afterwards Lily and James had snuck in the forest a few times, just for fun, only to be chased out by Hagrid. Other than that they pretty much liked him and Hagrid also seemed to like them.

"Hey guys! Who of you would like a snowball fight on the grounds after the last bell today?", Lily asked.

"Lily you know us so well.", James grinned.

"Indeed!", Sirius said and grinned as well.

Even Remus and Peter seemed to like the idea. Classes took to long on this day and after last bell they couldn't slip on their winterrobes, gloves and Gryffindor scarves fast enough. As soon as they were out on the grounds, Lily took up a clump of snow and threw it directly into James's face.

"This means revenge!", James yelled, but then he was hit on the back of the head by another clump of snow. This time the thrower had been Sirius.

"All on James!", Remus yelled and picked up a clump of snow and threw it onto James's arm.

SURE! ALL ON POTTER!", James yelled mock-angrily, as his friends began to shower him with snowballs.

They laughed and tackled each other on the ground, showering James in snow, until they all layed on the ground laughing.

"All on Remus!", James yelled, as they all got up.

"You're a dead man!", Remus yelled to James, but then Sirius and James showered Remus in snow and five seconds later Peter and Lily joined them.

Soon they all layed onto the floor panting and slightly laughing, but the fun time, they wanted to spend together was disturbed, as Snape, Avery and Mulciber came up to them.

"Uh-oh...Snivellus-alert.", James growled.

"At least I want to spent one moron-free day here, but that seems to be quite impossible.", Sirius growled.

It became worse, as Snape aimed at the group with a snowball and managed to shoot his glasses of his face. After this Lily fired back a snowball, which landed right into Snape's hair. James was feeling around in the snow, because he couldn't see two meteres far without his glasses. The end of it all was, that Mulciber found James's glasses first, broke them and handed them to Lily. Sirius threw three snowballs after the Slytherin boys.

"Oh no...I need those.", James mumbled and really sounded desprate this time.

"Anyone got a wand?", Sirius asked.

"I do...", Lily sighed, pulling out her wand with one hand and holding James's broken glasses with the other one. She pointed her wand at the glasses.

"Occulus Reparo.", Lily mumbled.

James's glasses were as good as new, after that. Lily handed them back with a smile on her face. James grinned too and this time it didn't seem mischievous. It seemed grateful.

"Thank you Lily. Can't imagine, what would've happened, if you hadn't fixed my glasses.", James mumbled.

"Well...we probably would've had to lead you anywhere, until we would've managed to get your glasses fixed and you probably would've had to miss out on revenge, but other than that...", Sirius murmured and turned out to be the next one to be covered in snowballs.

The rest of the days really flew by and soon the five friends were sitting in the Hogwarts Express on their way home. Their owls also seemed to be excited to get home, except for Peter's white owl Frosty maybe, since it was sleeping.

"Lazy owl.", Peter muttered.

"I can't help it, but I am actually looking foreward to getting home for Christmas break.", James mumbled.

"You're kind of the only one, with Remmie and Pete.", Sirius growled.

"Uh-huh...", Lily added.

"I thought you were also excited to get home Lils.", James mumbled and sounded quite flabbergasted.

"In some way I am...I missed my parents and I have so much to tell them, but...my sister is sure gonna give me a hard time...after the stunt she pulled, as I left.", Lily mumured, looking at her feet.

That wasn't even lied. Lily was in a bind, when it came to her oppinnion about Christmas break. She wanted to tell her parents all about Hogwarts and she also had to tell them about her friends, but she did not want to fight with her sister. She did not want to listen to Petunia, calling her a freak again. She felt James put a hand on her shoulder and saw a grin spreading across Sirius's face.

"Lily...don't listen to, what she is saying. Your sister might say, that you are a freak, but it' .true! You are the most amazing, cool, tough and funny girl in out year. So many people like you.", James whispered.

"You are so understanding.", Peter mumbled.

"You are so smart.", Remus said.

"And you come up with the great ideas for pranks.", Sirius chirmed in.

"We love you Lils and we will hex your sister back into last week, if she dares to make one wrong move towards you.", James whispered.

"Thank you James. Thank you all!", Lily whispered.

She also had tears into her eyes. Those four boys really were the best of friends, Lily could've asked for. Even though she was the only girl amongst them, she felt like they were a part of her..., like an invisible band had tied them all together.

"What do you think? Shall we give our Lilykins a hug?", James asked.

The awnsers were given physically, as four pairs of arms wrapped around Lily. This made her realize, what it really felt like to belong. As the boys all pulled away, Lily had to borrow Remus's hankerchief to wipe her eyes, since there were still tears in them.

"Stop crying, or I will start too Lily.", James pleaded half-serious and half-jokingly.

Lily wiped her eyes once more, before casting a drying charm onto Remus's hankerchief, before handing it back to him. Remus took it with a small smile. The time for the five friends to change into Muggle clothes, came much too soon. Except for Sirius, who would go home on some magical way, with the rest of his family. Lily was looking at the grey and black striped jumper, blue jeans and grey hunting boots, Peter was wearing now with a chuckle. Peter just wasn't capable of finding clothes, that actually looked good, if you wore them together. Remus clothes looked pretty old. A white shirt with dark green sweatervests, brown pants and dark brown, really old looking boots. Lily had to admit for James's outfit, that he could've slipped under the muggles, Lily knew, that this was how non-magical people were called in the magical world, without them realizing. A red jumper, jeans and winterboots. Lily herself had pulled out the next best hoodie. It was lush orange. Along with it she wore dark blue jeans and black leather boots. Shortly before the train pulled in, Lily and the boys pulled on warm coats, scarves and gloves. They reached for their trunks and the cages, with their owls in them, as they train pulled in on Plattform nine and three quarters. They all stepped outta their compartment and onto the Plattform, along with all the other students. Sirius was the first one, who had to leave. After quick hugs of goodbye to his friends he dashed off to his family. They were all wearing black robes and looked really unpleasant, excluding one little boy. This had to be Sirius's little brother Regulus. He really looked, like Sirius had described him, to Lily. After Sirius was gone, the remaining four walked up to the magical barrier to the muggle world, which lied between the muggle plattforms nine and ten at Kings Cross Station, with the other students, which had to go back to the muggle-world. Some controller gave signs, when groups of students were supposed to pass through, so they didn't tumble out at the same time and scared the muggles. As Lily, James, Remus and Peter passed through the gate to the muggle world, Remus and Peter discovered their mothers. They said goodbye to Lily and James and left. The families of Lily and James weren't there yet, so Lily and James had still a few minutes to talk.

"So...how do things go at your place, when it comes to Christmas?", Lily asked.

"Christmas shopping with mum and dad at Diagon Alley..., Mince Pies..., mugs of hot choccolate...", James said and started to get dreamy.

"How 'bout you?", James asked then.

"Last minute Christmas shopping, family dinner with all my relatives, getting Christmas presents shipped off to friends...", Lily broke off after the third thing.

"There is one thing, which will especially be a thorn in the neck this year: Petunia's birthday.", Lily sighed.

"Her brithday's before Christmas, I assume?", James asked.

"You guessed right. I'll tell you one more thing: If she doesn't treat me better, I won't bother getting her presents.", Lily said.

James let out a chuckle, as Lily suddenly spotted her father in the crowd of muggles, which were passing by. She did not want to say goodbye to James yet, but it looked he had also spotted his mother.

"My mum is here. I need to go. See you after Christmas break.", James whispered.

"Bye James.", Lily sighed sadly, hugging James.

"Goodbye Lily.", James mumbled hugging Lily back.

After they pulled apart, Lily ran to her father. He welcomed her with opened arms.

"There is our family witch!", he said.

Lily launched herself into her father's arms and hugged him tightly. She was happy to see him again and she was also looking foreward to see her mother. She wanted to tell them both about all the great things she had already pulled off with the boys, even though she probably had to lie a bit about the number of times, she had gotten in trouble already. During the car ride back to Little Whinning, Lily thought about her friends. As soon as she got home, she would straightly write to them and than take a nap. As soon as Lily and her father were in the house at Privet Drive, Lily was tackled into a hug by her mother.

"I am so glad, you are finally home Lily!", she said, while Lily's father took her trunk and the cage with Stormrain up to Lily's room

"Please tell me everything about Hogwarts. How are things there? How are your friends like?", Mrs. Evans asked.

"Louisa please, let Lily arrive properly, before you start holing our daughter with questions.", stopped his wife.

Luckily Petunia hadn't come home yet. Lily pulled of her coat, gloves and scarf and then went up to her room. She fed Stormrain and then began to unpack her stuff. Her books, her parchment, her ink glass and her seagull quill went onto her desk, since the teachers of Hogwarts had dumped them a quite big ammount of homework. The cage with Stormrain went out on the beside table and then Lily sent her owl out hunting. Her wand went onto her beside table. She left her clothes in her trunk. It would be a lot less trouble, when she was going back. Later she was writing to Sirius, hoping her owl wouldn't get injured, while flying to the Blacks.

Dear Sirius.

I hope your dearest family has left you in one piece, as you returned home and I hope Bellatrix doesn't curse you. I know, that you are probably dying to return to Hogwarts already. With your family, I wouldn't blame you. I returned home and my parents already begun to hole me with questions. With them being muggles, it's not wonder. What's going on at your place at Christmas? I know, that you hate your family. I am just curious, how people like the ones of your family celebrate Christmas.

Hoping to see you in one piece at King's Cross and lots of love.

Lily

Ending Word: Whew...this took me quite a few days and only, because of two freaking exams, that I had to take care of. Didn't have time to write even a few lines. Gotta use the weekend to take care of some stories again. I hope you liked the chapter and I hope you leave some reviews behind. Now all I have left to say is bye, bye and mischief managed.