Lily woke up the next morning in quite a bad mood. The weather outside was dreary, as the clouds were gray and ominous looking. The rain would probably start any minute.
"ERICA GET THIS DEMENTED OWL OFF OF MY HEAD!" screamed Lily, flailing her arms.
Oswald, Erica's owl, was at it again.
"LILY STOP TRYING TO HIT HIM! I'LL GET HIM OFF JUST STOP!" cried Erica, afraid Lily might hurt her precious owl.
Oswald was perched on Lily's head, stomping about again.
STOMP STOMP STOMP
"I AM TRYING TO SLEEP HERE GUYS!" yelled Roxanne, severely ticked she was being awaken.
The screaming could be heard throughout Gryffindor tower, and many people had begrudgingly been awakened.
Just then James and Sirius came bursting into the girl's dormitory, brandishing baseball bats.
"WHERE IS IT!" yelled Sirius.
James and Sirius came running toward Lily, willing to beat the owl off of her, but Erica wasn't to pleased with the idea of beating her owl.
"Put those bloody bats DOWN!" screamed Erica, tackling Sirius.
Roxanne frowned when Erica did this.
James then jumped on Lily's bed and tried to hit the owl. Oswald then decided he would leave to ensure he wouldn't be harmed.
James then collapsed on Lily's bed beside her and buried his face in one of her plushy pillows. Lily did the same, for battling with the demon owl had exhausted her.
Erica and Sirius finally stopped rolling around on the ground fighting over the bat when they noticed the owl had left.
Roxanne looked at the people in her dorm like they were all insane.
Sirius came off of the floor and collapsed in Roxanne's lap.
"Hold me," he murmured.
Roxanne decided she would much rather smother him with his pillow.
"HEY! I come up here to save you girls and you and Erica try and kill me! You people are impossible!" said Sirius, throwing up his hands in exasperation.
"We could have been half dressed when you came bursting in here!" said Roxanne.
"That's a chance I was willing to take love," smiled Sirius.
James laughed in Lily's pillow.
"Well don't you two look cozy!" said Erica, cocking an eyebrow at James and Lily.
Lily and James threw a pillow at her, and Erica toppled off of the chest she was sitting on.
"Well I never…" Erica murmured.
Erica took the two pillows that James and Lily threw at her and laid her head on them.
Sirius was pushed yet again off Roxanne's bed, so he came and joined Lily and James on their bed.
"You realize you are on top of us, right?" said Lily, yawning.
"Shut up Lily I am trying to sleep," said Sirius, yawning.
James laughed in his pillow again.
Seeing as it was only 3 o'clock in the morning, all the occupants of the dormitory fell fast asleep. Erica sleeping on the floor, Roxanne alone in her comfy bed, and Lily, James, and Sirius on Lily's bed. Usually Lily would protest these sleeping arrangements, but she was too tired to care.
8 o'clock
"Peter, where are James and Sirius?" inquired Remus, checking the bathroom and under their beds.
"I don't know!" squeaked Peter; "all I know is my baseball bats are missing!"
Peter searched the dorm throughoutly, looking for his prize bats. Back home, he played baseball with his muggle friends.
"Maybe they are at breakfast, lets go down, shall we?" said Remus.
Remus and Peter went down to breakfast, not knowing that their friends were sleeping peacefully in the girl's dormitory.
9:15, 15 minutes until Potions class
Erica yawned and got up from her uncomfortable position on the floor. She walked over to the mirror and inspected her pretty looks.
"Man I need a shower," she said to herself.
She went to pick up a brush, and then noticed her magical clock. It flashed 9:20.
"Well that's plenty of time. We still have ten minutes to get to class," she said, yawning.
Then it dawned on her.
"TEN MINUTES UNTIL CLASS!" she screamed loudly.
Roxanne rolled off her bed in fright, while Lily, James, and Sirius all shot up to sitting positions in the bed. Sirius and James ended up bonking their heads.
Lily pushed the two boys off of her bed, noticing they were only wearing boxer shorts.
What was I thinking? – She thought.
James and Sirius ran down the stairs, or should I say slide, as they forgot to put the spell on the stairs.
Lily, Erica, and Roxanne all threw on their clothing in record time, and were about to start on their hair when the boys came bounding up the stairs.
"No time," panted James, grabbing Lily's hand.
Sirius grabbed Erica and Roxanne's hands. All the girls threw down their make- up and hair products and ran out of Gryffindor tower, hand in hand with the Marauders.
The group ran down the stairs toward the dudgeons, Roxanne cursing their lateness the whole way.
"Professor Malastar will be furious!" cried Erica.
When they reached the correct dudgeon, they threw open the door, and were surprised at what they saw. Professor Malastar, Head of Slytherin, was not teaching the class, but someone different.
A new teacher named Professor Slughorn was directing the class, and was quite startled to see the five students in his dudgeon doorway.
James and Sirius had exceptionally messy hair, and James' glasses had gone astray. Lily, Roxanne, and Erica were not wearing make up, but still looked fine, and all had messy ponytails on the sides of their heads. It looked like they had awoken 10 minutes ago, which they had.
"Sorry we are late Professor," James spoke.
"Fifteen minutes late will not be tolerated people! It is your first day of this class however, so I shan't be so harsh!" said Slughorn, "Take your seats please."
Roxanne and Erica sat themselves down in two empty seats, and James and Sirius in two others. Remus and Peter were already sitting together so Lily was left alone. She had to sit at the front with a grumpy looking Slytherin. All four people shot her sympathetic looks, and James was tempted to go switch seats with her. Before he could however, Professor Slughorn continued his lesson.
He was droning on about some potion that could make you grow more limbs, and quite frankly everyone was bored out of their minds.
"More arms to hold you with,"
Lily remembered when James had said that to her on the doorstep of her house. She chuckled at the thought.
"What are you laughing at Mudblood? That fact that you are filth?" said the Slytherin beside her. His name was Nott.
Lily chose to ignore him, and turned away from his. She did not notice the note flying toward Nott. He caught it in his hands and opened it to read it.
Another comment like that Nott and I swear to you it will be your last.
J.P
Nott looked around and saw James Potter and Sirius Black giving piercing glares his way. He decided not to make anymore comments.
When the lesson was finished, the class emptied out of the dank dudgeon and headed out to lunch. It had been a LONG double period.
Lily, Roxanne, Erica and the Marauders headed to the Great Hall for lunch, talking about how useless it was to learn about that potion. James looked over at Lily and smiled. It seemed Lily wasn't the only one to remember the comment made on her doorstep.
Everyone seated themselves comfortably at the Gryffindor table, and filled their plates with delicious food.
"Now you can explain to me exactly why you were all late," said Remus, confusingly.
"Worried about Erica, were you?" said Sirius, smiling.
Erica and Remus went beat red.
"I was worried about you all Sirius," said Remus, emphasizing his name to show him his displeasure with the comment.
Sirius smiled and decided to keep quiet.
Lily looked over to James for answers, and he just smiled and shook his head, telling her he would reveal nothing.
"Well anyway, Roxanne and Erica were sleeping, and James, Lily and I were having a threesome," Sirius chuckled.
Lily and James both spat out their pumpkin juice.
"NOT TRUE!" Lily yelped.
All the friends chuckled.
"You will never stop will you Sirius?" said Roxanne.
"No, no I won't," said Sirius, flashing Roxanne a heart-stopping smile.
Roxanne rolled her eyes.
Lunch was about to end, and the students were expecting to here the bell any moment.
"Well looks like I will be heading out to Care of Magical Creature along for the first time!" said Lily, frowning.
Roxanne and Erica had both dropped Care of Magical Creatures in their sixth year.
"Don't be so sure Lily, Remus and I are both taking it too," said James.
"You are? But James you never mentioned you were taking it!" said Lily, surprised.
"Well I thought it would be a useful course to take after our little ministry escapade," chuckled James.
Lily, James, and Remus all headed out to the cabin by the woods where they would meet up with the rest of the class. (Hagrid wasn't Keeper of Keys at that point)
The sky still looked ominous, and the heavens looked to be dropping buckets of rain on them any minute.
As they approached the cabin, they became more and more stunned. Seemed Professor Malastar had not been sacked, he had just been given another position.
"Hurry up Gryffindors, or I will take points away from your house," sneered the new Professor of Care of Magical Creatures.
It looked like Lily, James, and Remus were the only non- Slytherins in the whole group. All the faithful Slytherins had followed their Head of House to his new subject.
"Great," James murmured.
"Thank god you guys took this subject too," whispered Lily.
Malastar was ready to begin class and rounded up the students.
"As you can see, I am the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher, and I will teach you about much more dangerous creatures then your normal teachers would have. If some of you can't handle it," said Malastar, looking at the Gryffindors, "then I suggest you leave now."
"He wishes," whispered Remus.
"I have a very interesting creature here today," said Malastar.
He had a cage hidden behind a woodpile, and placed it on a table before him. He then took the blanket shielding the creature away. He placed the creature on a pedestal out of his cage.
A few people recoiled from its dreaded appearance. It appeared to be a greenish- blackish phoenix, but it was not beautiful like Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes.
"Can anyone tell me what this is?" inquired the teacher.
Lily's hand flew up into the hair. Malastar grudgingly picked her, as no one else knew.
"That is an Augurey, also known as an Irish Phoenix. Legends foretells that anyone who hears its cry will die," said Lily.
Before she could finish her sentence, the teacher interrupted her.
"That is correct, so beware" he said, an evil smile apparent on his face.
Malastar started to talk about the bird, when a shrill cry could be heard coming from the Augurey.
The whole class, except Remus and Lily, recoiled.
There were hushed whispers, and everyone started to get nervous. Malastar just smiled.
"Who is going to die? I hope it's the Mudblood, she is dispensable…" started an ugly Slytherin.
He did not finish his sentence however, for James had launched himself at him. James had punched him in the face, and now stood above the Slytherin cowering on the ground. His nose was bloody, and he put up his hands to try and get James to stop.
"Well, seeing as you are already injured, I suppose you are the dispensable one," said James, glaring daggers at the Slytherin.
Before Malastar could give James a hefty detention however, the classes attention focused on the bird yet again. It's cries became louder and more pronounced. It started to lightly rain, and the Augurey took off into the sky.
It then began to pour buckets of rain onto the classes heads.
"Everyone into the cabin!" Malastar said.
The Slytherins and teacher got safely into the cabin, and when Lily, James, and Remus were about to enter, the door was slammed shut on their faces.
"Let us in!" yelled Remus, banging on the door.
The Slytherins all had their faces pressed against the windows, laughing and pointing at the wet Gryffindors.
Lily, James, and Remus decided it would be useless to continue trying to get into the cabin, so there took shelter under the tress in the Forbidden Forest. They did not go far in, but remained on the outskirts.
They huddled under a large tree; cloaks pulled tightly over their shivering bodies.
"James you shouldn't have attacked him," Lily said meekly.
"Well Lily, frankly I am tired of all the muggleborn comments those idiot Slytherins use against you. You are smarter then any of those lugheads, and why they think for one minutes they are better then you I will never know," vented James.
Lily was quite touched at how highly James thought of her.
"If James hadn't of beat in his face I would have Lily," said Remus, smiling.
"Still, I don't want you guys in trouble because of me! It is sweet and all, but it's not worth it," Lily said.
From the frown on James' face, he thought differently.
The three friends were quiet for about 5 minutes until James brought up the Augurey.
"So who do you think is going to die?" asked James.
Lily and Remus chuckled.
"It is just a legend James. In truth, it actually sings when rain is approaching. The Augurey in fact flies only during rain and remains in its nest at other times," said Lily.
"Malastar was just trying to frighten us all," added Remus.
The rain started to die down, and surprisingly, the Augurey came back from its flight and landed beside the three Gryffindors.
It walked on its sharp talons over to the three, giving them curious looks. Lily decided to try her luck and pat it.
"Hey there you beautiful bird," Lily said, stroking it.
It wasn't that pretty, but she didn't think it would be a good idea to insult it.
The bird closed its eyes and enjoyed Lily stroking it.
"Hey, it likes you Lily!" said James.
What wouldn't like Lily? – James thought, smiling.
"I think the bell is going to ring soon, maybe we should bring the bird back and head inside?" suggested Remus.
Lily had the bird perched on her shoulder, and deposited him on his pedestal.
"At least it stopped raining," Lily commented.
The three Gryffindors walked up the sloping hills to the castle, and entered through the large oak doors. The bell had already ringed, signaling the start of yet another class. The three wet Gryffindors entered the transfiguration classroom.
"Why is it every time I see you, you are soaked to the bone?" asked Roxanne, puzzled.
Roxanne and Lily were seated together, with Sirius and James behind them, and Erica and Remus in front of them.
Professor McGonagall entered the classroom swiftly, placing a warming charm on James, Lily, and Remus on the way.
"I can't have you say that shivering is distracting you from my class Mr. Potter," said Professor McGonagall, "I need to smother as many pointless excuses as I can."
Sirius laughed at the comment and yelled, "You go Minnie!"
Professor McGonagall gave him a piercing glare, and he gave her a toothy smile.
Professor McGonagall started off the lesson with the class transfiguring a catfish into a kitten, something she thought, was quite simple. However the class was having a fair bit of trouble.
James, Sirius, and Remus had done it within the minute. They were quite skilled at transfiguration. (Three guesses why!)
"I hate transfiguration," Lily pouted.
"Aww, does Lillykins need some help?" said James, smiling.
"Like you could do any better!" retorted Lily.
She then saw Sirius' and James' kittens purring as they stroked them.
"Alright, I take it back then," said Lily, staring at the kittens impressed.
James pulled up his chair beside Lily's in order to help her. Sirius pulled his up to Roxanne's, to her chagrin.
"It's all in the wrist movement and pronunciation. Here," said James, reached behind Lily and taking Lily's right hand in his.
He is awfully close- thought Lily, nervously.
"Now you say the spell, and I will help you with the wrist movement," said James, also realizing how close he was to Lily.
Lily said the spell out loud, and with James help, conjured up a baby kitten.
"Wow," said Lily.
She reached over and stroked the kitten's warm tummy. It purred.
"Thanks James," Lily said, inclining her head towards his.
She had forgotten how close his face was to her and her lips brushed over his nose.
"Um…I…I…no problem!" James stuttered, and returned to his seat.
I just kissed James Potter's nose- Lily thought, extremely embarrassed.
When Sirius returned to his seat he noticed James grinning from ear to ear.
"What happening mate? James? HELLO?" Sirius said, waving his hands in front of his face.
"Mr. Black keep it down will you!" disciplined McGonagall.
Sirius smiled at her cheekily and continued.
"James!" said Sirius, starting to poke him.
"Bugger off! I'm not telling you anything!" said James, still smiling like a fool.
Sirius pouted for a minute then continued to play with his kitten.
"What do you think is up with James?" inquired Roxanne, asking Lily.
"Don't ask me," said Lily, knowing the answer.
Meanwhile Remus and Erica seemed to be getting alone quite well. Erica giggled at everything Remus said, and he looked quite comfortable being around her.
As the bell rang, indicating that the last class of the day had commenced, the class filled out of the classroom.
Well my classes today have certainly been interesting- thought Lily, a small smile playing on her face.
Author's Notes
Ok, that was another long chapter! Eleven pages of writing! So is it going all right? Couple more clues and then you will find out what is in the box! So please review everybody, and continue reading! Thanks so much to all my reviewers! And every body who is wondering about Lily and James getting together, it will be awhile! I need to ease them into the relationship, nothing rushed!
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