Hermione had written back about the fair that was in her town, and so the Marauders were flooing into her living room. Her dad was grumbling about removing the gate surrounding the fireplace but Hermione's mother was ecstatic about the whole experience.

Hermione had dressed in a soft woolly jumper, navy jeans and boots. She'd tied her hair up in a mess of curls on the top of her head with a few left framing her face and Hermione had even painted her fingernails out of boredom and persuasion from Lily.

James came tumbling through the fire place first and Mrs Evans shrieked in delight.

"Oh James is it? Dear let me get that soot off of your nose... oh and"

"Mum stop fussing he's fine!" Hermione said pulling James out of her grasp.

"Alright Mione?" He asked "is this right Muggle clothes? My parents don't really know much about them so..."

"No no you're fine" she replied checking him over. He had light jeans, a grey jumper and old trainers on with a beanie to cover his messy hair.

Before they could engage in more conversation, Remus stepped out of the fireplace looking around nervously. He had a slightly worn jacket and a brown T-shirt on, with dark hiking boots on.

Mrs Evans attacked Remus before he had a chance to greet his friends. "Oh look at you, let me get a handkerchief for your clothes, get that soot off! And Mione dear get him a scarf he looks positively freezing!"

As her mum hurried away, Hermione took the opportunity to take the boys to her room to give them the presents. As she pushed open the door, she was surprised to see Lily sitting on her bed wrapping gifts in festive paper.

"Hey Evans!" James said cheerfully, making Lily jump out of her skin.

"Potter? What're you doing !" Lily asked sputtering at the fact the bane of her Hogwarts existence was in her room.

"Lils get Remus a scarf please" Hermione asked, nipping that argument in the bud.

Once Remus had a thick Gryffindor scarf and the boys were sitting cross legged on the rug, Hermione gave them both their purple wrapped presents.

"You can open them when Sirius and Pete get here" Hermione said still rifling through her secret compartment while the others were occupied. Once she'd found the rest of her presents, she threw them to Lily and asked "before you go out can you get Athene to deliver them?"

After some light small talk between the four, Sirius stumbled into the room. He had a black T-shirt, black pants and a black pea coat on with (you guessed it!) black boots. "No offence Mina but your mums mental!" He gasped. "As soon as I stepped into the room she shoved some kind of hot drink down my throat and started licking her thumb and rubbing my face! I've been here about 15 minutes!"

James and Hermione laughed openly, Remus chuckled and Lily just smiled slightly, refusing to actually laugh at Sirius Black the second bane of her Hogwarts existence.

"Here's your gift Sirius but you need to open it when Peter gets here!" Hermione scolded him when he started peeling the paper off of the corner.

"Oh he's here he just hasn't escaped your mother yet!" Sirius revealed.

After she'd returned from fetching/rescuing Peter, she finally let the marauders open their gifts. Lily watched eagerly.

Sirius looked at his, and looked at Hermione incredulously "a diary?"

Remus however was slightly nervous about his. It had a wolf on it. Did Hermione know?

Peter ran his hands over the beautiful cover in awe and James just shook it as if to see if it contained something more exciting.

"They're magical diaries. Look on the first page of each of yours!" Hermione said excitedly before getting a pen and writing Hello guys in her own. "See! I thought theyd be perfect for you guys. And I got my own because I just couldn't resist really!"

The boys looked at each other, Sirius and James already concocting mischief and Remus shaking his head slightly at his friends antics.

"Also the pages are unlimited and if you stick a photo or a concert ticket or anything they appear in the other books!" Hermione continued on.

But before she could complete her summary, they tackled her into a group hug and Lily laughed.