Chapter Three: Confidence boost and Christmas
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Hope you really like this story it might not be that good though.
Chapter three
A few weeks had passed and Lily had become used to eating with the marauders, sitting with them in lessons and occasionally hanging around with them. The problem was Lily still felt alone and she still didn't have much confidence. All of the marauders noticed this of cause, James especially and it was killing him to see that all his and his friends' efforts hadn't helped Lily as much as he had hoped. But on the bright side at least she wasn't on her own as much anymore and they could look after her. They were in charms and Lily was doing some brilliant work and James was just staring at her and then he had an idea. "Hey guy's I have an idea why don't we find a normal group of nice girls that could go with Lily next Hogsmead weekend and I'll pay for all her stuff that should cheer her up. What do you think?" James whispered quietly so Lily wouldn't hear him. "Well sounds like a good idea to me but where are we going to find a group of normal girls that Lily will want to be with?" Said Sirius. "Gee Sirius I thought I was the deep thinker normally you just jump in with out thinking I am surprised." Said Remus chuckling. Sirius did a mock laugh.
James had made up his mind; he was going to find some girls before the weekend to take Lily shopping, his treat. James hoped this would work. They may have been Lily's first friend's but they still didn't know everything about her they had to give her time and space. Sirius, Remus and Peter had admirably taken up the challenge of finding some nice normal girls to take Lily shopping. Sirius with a bit too much enthusiasm, more than needed and he got slapped a good few times for being rude though a lot of the time it was just playfully, and what would Sirius do but play back. Luckily they managed to find a group of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor girls who were willing to take Lily shopping and they were the most normal girls they could find, and they thought and hoped lily would like them.
On the Saturday morning of the Hogmead trip James, Sirius, Remus and Peter went into the girl's dormitory to wake Lily up and give her the good news. James sat on the end of her bed trying to look innocent but failing with a big cheeky grin on his face. Lily slowly got up and rubbed her eyes. "Right what have you done?" She asked groggily. They all looked shocked. "What do you mean?" Asked Sirius. "Well one your all up here, two it's about seven in the morning and three your all smiling too much." "Ok fair enough its just we have surprise for you" said Remus smiling. "Oh cool what is it?" "Well Lily we have six people we want to introduce you to, they are waiting downstairs for you when your ready they are going to take you shopping my treat I pay for everything."
Lily looked shocked and James smile hesitated for a moment but Lily gave a small smile. She got out of bed, chucked the marauders out so she could get dressed. Lily came down about twenty minutes later in a pair of blue faded jeans and a green kangol top, which brought out her eyes and contrasted with her deep red hair. There were five girls sitting in the common room with the marauders. "Lily may I introduce Danielle" James pointed out a girl with long blonde hair big bright blue/green eyes. James pointed to another girl. She had mousy shoulder length hair and a few scattered freckles and was the shortest in the group her name was Lauren. The next had short dark brown hair and was just a bit shorter than Danielle, her name was Helena. After Helena was a girl with lighter brown hair, James introduced her as Lindsey. Next he introduced Sarah she had brown hair, which was cut short, and up in a ponytail she was the tallest. And last but not least was Amy; with blonde hair just past her shoulders, freckels and bright blue eyes. Amy, Danielle and Helena were in Gryfindor Lily recogmised them the other three were Ravenclaws.
Lily said hello to all of them, it was strange to see such a group of people all of them were completely different and individual in their own way. James gave a purse to Lily and she took it very begrudgingly and went to Hogsmead. The seven girls headed out into the street after a butterbeer and went to the robes shop. Lily picked a long white dress with a white shawl. It wasn't that expensive. She didn't know how much money James had given her and it didn't really feel right spending someone else's money. Lily opened the purse to pay and found a hundred galleons inside it. She new James was rich because his parents were famous for fighting dark wizards. Lily didn't know whether to smile and thank James for giving her money but she would probably return most of it or be angry with him she didn't need charity. The rest of the girls squealed happily and made Lily buy loads more things.
When Lily returned she came into the Gryffindore common room on her own as the other girls went in her house. She was loaded down with bags and the marauders helped carry them up into her dorm. She sat down on the bed they all looked at her but instead of having the effect they would have hoped she was giving them, James in particular a sharp glance. "James why did you give me all that money, I'm not a charity case. I didn't even want to spend it but those girls you sent me with made me buy all this stuff," she said almost disappointedly. "Sorry Lily did you not like the girls we asked to go with you?" Asked James. "I'd have rather have gone with you." As she said this Remus smiled knowingly and Sirius gave him a questioning look but Remus just shook his head. Lily looked slightly displeased for a moment but then she smiled a wide smile, a true smile. It was strange for Lily to feel the way she did. Happy was how she felt really happy there was no other word for it. Lily walked up to James and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you James I did have I really nice time even if I'd have rather have not spent all the money and rather have gone with you" Lily for the second time that day chucked them out of her dorm so she could have some rest before dinner.
It was a week before christmas and Lily was still happy and content and found that she was much more confident than before in lessons and out. She had a lot to thank James, Sirius, Remus and Peter for they had really helped her. This was her new problem she didn't know what to get them all for christmas and she still hadnt told them why she used to be so depressed. The marauders had the same problem what did they get Lily for christmas? And was she really over her depression? After all she had never spoken to them about it. They all went to Hogsmead the weekend before christmas (they had all decided to stay at Hogwarts for christmas) to buy presants for each other. They all went their separate ways and agreed to meet at the Three Broomsticks for butterbeers at two o'clock. Lily went into Zonko's she thought that this seemed like the ideal shop to get them presants from. Unfourtunatly Sirius was in their so she had to be careful that she didn't buy the same thing that Sirius had got for someone and she had to make sure that he didn't see what she was buying him. Lily brought them all a box of Huneydukes best, some Flibuster fireworks, itching powder and a book each which contained spells and potions which did different jokes and things when you either performed them or made them.
The marauders had aranged a meeting date behind Lily's back so they could discuss what to get her for christmas. They decided that they would get her a festive toilet seat that sang christmas carols, a diary that would make the ink invisable to everyone but Lily, a cosmetics hair and make up spell book and finally a charm braclet with a set of charms. James had made a special surprise for Lily on christmas day and he hednt told the rest of the marauders about it yet, but he was going to have to because they caught him buying somethings that he wouldn't let them see and he would probably need their help. Later that night they were all changing into their pajamas. "So Jamesie are you going to tell us what your up to or is a surprise for us?" Sirius started to look excited. "No its not a surprise for you but a surprise for Lily" James jumped into bed and hoped the conversation would steer into another direction but alsa when Sirius wanted to know something nothing would stop him trying to find out. "So whats this surprise then? And I didn't know you had a little crush on Lily dear old Jamesie" Sirius smiled wickedly. "Shut up Padfoot. I'm going to take her to that clearing in the forbidden forest where the lake is alright!" Sirius's smile just widened even more. "Moony you knew he liked Miss Lily didn't you that day when you smiled and I looked at you as if to say whats going on and you shook your head?" Remus nodded and James just looked shocked. "Look can we talk about this in the morning because I need you all to help? And I need my rest" Said James. "Yeah ok Prongs, I have to admit that you do need some beauty sleep night everyone and that includes you Sirius any late night pranks tonight and I'll bite you" Remus smiled jokingly and pulled the hanging aroung his bed. James did the same as did Peter, Sirius on the other hand did one thing before closing his bed hangings. "Ahhhwooooooo" Just like a warewolf and then jumped into bed.
The next morning Sirius was asigned to keep Lily occupied so that Remus could haelp James (Peter would have kept Lily away from them but he was too shy). Sirius was the only one at breakfast in the great hall when Lily came down. "Hey Lil looks like it's just you and me today" he smiled cheekily. "Is it Where are James, Remus and Peter?" "Dunno anyway never mind them wanna go to Hogsmead?" "But how can we its not a Hogsmead weekend?" Sirius didn't answer just looked at Lily expectantly. "Come on Lil you know us" "True I s'pose you would know, but wont we get caught or in trouble?" "No don't worry about it I have everything we need. Come on breakfast is getting cold so get eating."Lily said no more and sat down to have breakfast. After breakfast Sirius lead Lily to the boys dorm and pulled out an invisability cloak and a piece of parchment. Sirius used his wand, pointed it at the piece of parchment and said. "I solmely swear I am up to no good" on the map appeared a lot of lines and Sirius moved the map out of Lily's view so that she couldn't see where James, Remus and Peter were. "Whats that Si?" Asked Lily trying to look. "It's a map so that I can see where the teachers are" "Does it show you where everyone is even the students?" "Yeah but we just need to make sure a certain area is clear."
Sirius grabbed Lily put the cloak aroung her and him and they left the common room. Sirius occasionally checked the map and then he reached where he wanted to, a statue of a humped witch. Sirius got his wand out again and gave the password. "Dissendium" the statue moved and made a tunel for them to climb into the passage way. Meanwhile in the forbidden forest three teenage boys were heading into a light clearing. There was a small lake, tress that had long branches covered in big leaves that hung low so you couldn't see inside the clearing. James and Remus started to transfigure some things and perform spells to make it the perfect space for James and LIly on christmas. Lily and Sirius at this point were in the Three broomsticks for butterbeers. Sirius being Sirius couldn't leave out the fact that James liked Lily so decided to play on it. "Lily what do you think of James?" Sirius tried hard not to smile too much but was failing out of habbit. Lily turned to face Sirius rather quickly this of course just made him smile even more. "Why?" She asked quickly. "I was just woundering what you thought of James, I could tell you what I think of James If you want to hear it?" "Ok tell me what you think of James?" "Well a while ago had the biggest ego you could imagine and he was a complete prat but then again we all were. As you can so obviously tell we're much nicer now. He is a great mate good for pranks and you can always tell when he's lieing to you about something, which means that if you hassel him about it enough he eventually gives in and tells you. Or is it just me because I'm annoying I think that's what he said something like that anyway." Sirius grinned and looked at Lily she made a slight face and began to tell Sirius what she thought of James. Lily was put of slightly by Sirius's silly grin. "Well he's really nice and he helped me a lot in loads of ways as did you, Remus and Peter. He makes me laugh and he has helped me by taking me out of the darkness that I used to be in and if he hadnt decided to stop and talk to me, I don't know where I would be." Sirius's smile had gone from a silly grin to a genuine sincear smile, one Lily had never seen before. The silence was slightly akward so Sirius smiled stupidly again. "Do you fancie James?" He said almost laughing. "Si!" "Well do you?" Sirius was just waiting and Lily just smiled and refused to answer. "Well there's a difference between you and James. You don't give in as easy as he does to my charm."
Later in the afternoon Sirius and Lily returned to the Gryffindor common room. James and Remus were already in the common room no one knew where Peter was. They were both smiling really widely and seemed very pleased with themselves. "Algright Moony, Prongs?" Sirius nodded to each as he sat down next to Remus and smioled sheepishly. "Alright Padfoot" "Hi Padfot" Said James and Remus. "And how are you Lily?" Asked Remus "we didn't see you today, where did you go?" "I went to Hogsmead with Si. Where were you two, both of you had left when we got up for breakfast?" "We went to do a bit pranking on Snape and we werent sure if you would want to, so we left Sirius to jeep you company" Said James smiling slightly apologetically. "Yeah sorry about that Lily, we wont leave you with him again I know he's a pain." Said Remus smiling. "No it was ok though the conversation wasn't exactly what I would have liked to talk about" Lily smiled a little. "Why what was it?" Asked James curiously. Lily went up to her dorm and muttered something about having to get some stuff from her room. Sirius strated laughing. "Padfoot what did you say to her?" Asked James. "Why worried Jamesie?" Sirius gave and evil little grin. "Sirius!" James jumped up and so did Sirius. "I'll tell you if you can catch me" Sirius ran as he said the last words out of the common room and James followed running closely behind. Remus just laughed. He he.
It was early in the morning and Lily woke up to the sound of some really bad carol singing. She soon found out that it was the marauders giving her a wake up call. "Oh we wish you a merry christmas, oh we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year-" "Ok, ok I'm up" said Lily groggily. "Merry christmas Lily" they all said together. "Thanx for the presants Lily they will come in real use for our annual christmas prank." Said Sirius smiling madly. "Yeah thanks Lily it was really noce of you" said Remus. "Thanks Lil" Said Peter. "Thanks Lily I really liked them" James gave Lily a hug and both went a select shade of pink. "Well come on then Lily darling open your presants I'm excited." Said Sirius jumping on the bed next to her she looked at James, Peter and Remus and patted her bed to indicate that they can sit down as well. Lily picked up a package that was from her dad and a begrudging Pertunia. Lily opened it and she had some money (which had been changed into wizard money), some new jeans and a top and a few muggle fiction books. Lily then came to four packages, she opened the one which had got open first write on it in flashing ink. She opened it and found a toilet seat with holly around the edge.
"Well I certainly wont be sitting on this" all the marauders laughed and Lily just smile. She lifted up the lid and dropped in with a strtled cry when it started singing. "I should have expected something like this." She then picked up the presant with open second on it, it was the diary Lily was fascinated with the fact that when she wrote in it and gave it to Sirius he couldn't see what she had put. "Ah that's really cool" she proceded to the third presant and opened it and foud a book with spells that you udse to put your hair up or to make it different styles and how to put make up on. "Are you lot trying to tell me something?" She laughed at their worried looks, and then they joined in Sirius a little too enthusiasticly as he does get sometimes and he nearly chocked. The last presant on her bed was a charm braclet with charms Lily took it out of the box and gasped. She put the braclet on with its charms dangeling off it. The charms were a warewolf, a stag, a dog and a small rat and a moon. Lily smiled knowingly at the charms and what they represented. They all headed down to the common room once they had changed and decided that they would do a little planning for their christmas prank and then go and have a snowball fight.
"Right so what are we going to do?" Said Sirius who for the first time actually seemed sirious about pranking. "Well it has to be humerous" said Remus "something that's going to make the whole school laugh and be shocked" "hmmm but what?" Said James thinking hard. Lily suddenly had an Idea after all they did know where the kitchens were so it was possible. "What about. No it's stupid" said Lily. "No go on Lily whats your idea?" Said Sirius hopefully. "Well ok but don't blame me if its stupid. We could go to the kitchens and ask the elves if they'll let us put a charm on all the christmas pudding, so that when someone goes to put a spoon in the oudding it starts shouting or singing or something." Lily shrugged, the marauders on the other hand thought it was a stroke of genius. "Lily that's great. Remus you know the libaray inside out go find a spell that makes christmas pudding sing when you touch it you could have a look in those books Lily gave us as well I bet there's one in their." They all left to go and get everyone else who was staying for the holidays to have a snowball fight all houses against each other, though Sirius and James only wanted it that way so they could kick Slytherins ass. Remus joined them after he had found the spell and the fight began.
Gryffindor won the snowball fight whether it was because they had more people on their team or whether it was because James and Sirius were good at Quidditch and therefore had good reflexes. Christmas dinner was in the great hall and when they had all dried off they went in and sat down at the one table with all the staff, three Slytherins, two Hufflepuffs and four Ravenclaws. Dinner was over and pudding appeared on the table, the marauders and Lily all smiled. They had cast the spell on the puddings before coming down to dinner. Everyone went to poke or stab a pudding with a spoon or falk and jumped when it started singing in a hight pitched shieking voice. Several puddings were singing all at the same time and different songs. McGonagall looked slightly flustered and was about to say something to Dumbledore, this didn't improve her mood to find him chuckling at the puddings. Then again McGonagall didn't need to ask who had done it she knew perfectly well who it was and she wasn't goignt o let them get away with it. After dinner she cornered them on their way out. "I want to see you four in my office now, Lily you may go to the common room and wait for them there I know you had nothing to do with this." "No professor I did have something to do with it, infact it was my idea they just helped, so if anyone should get in trouble it should be me." The marauders looked stunned they would have thought that if Lily could get out of trouble she would have, after all they didn't expect her to get in trouble and stick by them she hadnt been an original marauder. But they could gladly say she was now.
James took Lily away after McGonagall had finished giving them a lecture and the rest of the marauders went to the common room. Lily didn't know what James had planned but she found her self yet again under James's invisability cloak, and heading into the forbidden forest! When they got where they were going James pulled back some hanging branches and walked inside with Lily close by him because she was scared of being in the forest. It was the nicest place that Lily had been taken to there was a small lake with greenie blue sparkling water in there was a cooling bucket full of butterbeers and a large tree trunk that had a soft cushion against it. Lily and James sat next to each other and leaned on the cushion with James. "What do you think of the place?" Asked James. "Its lovely how long have you known about this place?" "About a year its yours now" "James thank you" "If you ever want to come down hear you let Sirius, Remus or me know and we'll bring you down under the cloak and we'll give you a two way mirror so you can tell us when you want picking up, its safer than you going on your own and you wont get caught. Oh and thanks for sticking with us today and not pretending to have nothing to do with our prank." "That's ok I didn't mind anyway what are friends for if not to stick together." "Well we as in the marauders and me would like to officaly make you a marauder. Welcome to the world of complete insainity" Lily laughed and shook James open hand. "Well as a marauder can I ask you some questions?" "Yeah of course you can"
"Well I know about Remus being a warewolf I've worked out that, that's what all his symptons were and the charm. I'v also worked out that the dog is Sirius who'sd nickname is Padfoot, yours is Prongs the stag charm and wormtail is the rat which is Peter's nick name but why are your called them names?" "How come you never said anything to any of us before about Remus?" "Well I didn't know whether you would be angry" "No I'm not angry just a bit shocked but I'll let them know you know and as for our nick names well your right about which animal goes fpr which name and person. The reason we have them names is because we are iligal animagius. Sirius is a dog, Peter a rat and me a stag. Remus is a warewolf because he got bite when he was a child, and the moon charm is because we all become these animals when it's a full moon. You cant tell anyonn any of this Lily." James smiled worriedly at Lily who just smiled. "You turned animagius just so Remus wasn't on his own every month. That's really kind and sweet James." Lily kissd James on the cheek and they stayed there until it got dark and then went back to the castle and James told the ither marauders what Lily knew.
Hey guys that was a longer chapter sorry if it went on a bit. I think I might have repeated myself a bit as well in places so im sorry about that as well. Please review because I want to know what you think cheers people, have a drink on my behalf. (
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Hope you really like this story it might not be that good though.
Chapter three
A few weeks had passed and Lily had become used to eating with the marauders, sitting with them in lessons and occasionally hanging around with them. The problem was Lily still felt alone and she still didn't have much confidence. All of the marauders noticed this of cause, James especially and it was killing him to see that all his and his friends' efforts hadn't helped Lily as much as he had hoped. But on the bright side at least she wasn't on her own as much anymore and they could look after her. They were in charms and Lily was doing some brilliant work and James was just staring at her and then he had an idea. "Hey guy's I have an idea why don't we find a normal group of nice girls that could go with Lily next Hogsmead weekend and I'll pay for all her stuff that should cheer her up. What do you think?" James whispered quietly so Lily wouldn't hear him. "Well sounds like a good idea to me but where are we going to find a group of normal girls that Lily will want to be with?" Said Sirius. "Gee Sirius I thought I was the deep thinker normally you just jump in with out thinking I am surprised." Said Remus chuckling. Sirius did a mock laugh.
James had made up his mind; he was going to find some girls before the weekend to take Lily shopping, his treat. James hoped this would work. They may have been Lily's first friend's but they still didn't know everything about her they had to give her time and space. Sirius, Remus and Peter had admirably taken up the challenge of finding some nice normal girls to take Lily shopping. Sirius with a bit too much enthusiasm, more than needed and he got slapped a good few times for being rude though a lot of the time it was just playfully, and what would Sirius do but play back. Luckily they managed to find a group of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor girls who were willing to take Lily shopping and they were the most normal girls they could find, and they thought and hoped lily would like them.
On the Saturday morning of the Hogmead trip James, Sirius, Remus and Peter went into the girl's dormitory to wake Lily up and give her the good news. James sat on the end of her bed trying to look innocent but failing with a big cheeky grin on his face. Lily slowly got up and rubbed her eyes. "Right what have you done?" She asked groggily. They all looked shocked. "What do you mean?" Asked Sirius. "Well one your all up here, two it's about seven in the morning and three your all smiling too much." "Ok fair enough its just we have surprise for you" said Remus smiling. "Oh cool what is it?" "Well Lily we have six people we want to introduce you to, they are waiting downstairs for you when your ready they are going to take you shopping my treat I pay for everything."
Lily looked shocked and James smile hesitated for a moment but Lily gave a small smile. She got out of bed, chucked the marauders out so she could get dressed. Lily came down about twenty minutes later in a pair of blue faded jeans and a green kangol top, which brought out her eyes and contrasted with her deep red hair. There were five girls sitting in the common room with the marauders. "Lily may I introduce Danielle" James pointed out a girl with long blonde hair big bright blue/green eyes. James pointed to another girl. She had mousy shoulder length hair and a few scattered freckles and was the shortest in the group her name was Lauren. The next had short dark brown hair and was just a bit shorter than Danielle, her name was Helena. After Helena was a girl with lighter brown hair, James introduced her as Lindsey. Next he introduced Sarah she had brown hair, which was cut short, and up in a ponytail she was the tallest. And last but not least was Amy; with blonde hair just past her shoulders, freckels and bright blue eyes. Amy, Danielle and Helena were in Gryfindor Lily recogmised them the other three were Ravenclaws.
Lily said hello to all of them, it was strange to see such a group of people all of them were completely different and individual in their own way. James gave a purse to Lily and she took it very begrudgingly and went to Hogsmead. The seven girls headed out into the street after a butterbeer and went to the robes shop. Lily picked a long white dress with a white shawl. It wasn't that expensive. She didn't know how much money James had given her and it didn't really feel right spending someone else's money. Lily opened the purse to pay and found a hundred galleons inside it. She new James was rich because his parents were famous for fighting dark wizards. Lily didn't know whether to smile and thank James for giving her money but she would probably return most of it or be angry with him she didn't need charity. The rest of the girls squealed happily and made Lily buy loads more things.
When Lily returned she came into the Gryffindore common room on her own as the other girls went in her house. She was loaded down with bags and the marauders helped carry them up into her dorm. She sat down on the bed they all looked at her but instead of having the effect they would have hoped she was giving them, James in particular a sharp glance. "James why did you give me all that money, I'm not a charity case. I didn't even want to spend it but those girls you sent me with made me buy all this stuff," she said almost disappointedly. "Sorry Lily did you not like the girls we asked to go with you?" Asked James. "I'd have rather have gone with you." As she said this Remus smiled knowingly and Sirius gave him a questioning look but Remus just shook his head. Lily looked slightly displeased for a moment but then she smiled a wide smile, a true smile. It was strange for Lily to feel the way she did. Happy was how she felt really happy there was no other word for it. Lily walked up to James and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you James I did have I really nice time even if I'd have rather have not spent all the money and rather have gone with you" Lily for the second time that day chucked them out of her dorm so she could have some rest before dinner.
It was a week before christmas and Lily was still happy and content and found that she was much more confident than before in lessons and out. She had a lot to thank James, Sirius, Remus and Peter for they had really helped her. This was her new problem she didn't know what to get them all for christmas and she still hadnt told them why she used to be so depressed. The marauders had the same problem what did they get Lily for christmas? And was she really over her depression? After all she had never spoken to them about it. They all went to Hogsmead the weekend before christmas (they had all decided to stay at Hogwarts for christmas) to buy presants for each other. They all went their separate ways and agreed to meet at the Three Broomsticks for butterbeers at two o'clock. Lily went into Zonko's she thought that this seemed like the ideal shop to get them presants from. Unfourtunatly Sirius was in their so she had to be careful that she didn't buy the same thing that Sirius had got for someone and she had to make sure that he didn't see what she was buying him. Lily brought them all a box of Huneydukes best, some Flibuster fireworks, itching powder and a book each which contained spells and potions which did different jokes and things when you either performed them or made them.
The marauders had aranged a meeting date behind Lily's back so they could discuss what to get her for christmas. They decided that they would get her a festive toilet seat that sang christmas carols, a diary that would make the ink invisable to everyone but Lily, a cosmetics hair and make up spell book and finally a charm braclet with a set of charms. James had made a special surprise for Lily on christmas day and he hednt told the rest of the marauders about it yet, but he was going to have to because they caught him buying somethings that he wouldn't let them see and he would probably need their help. Later that night they were all changing into their pajamas. "So Jamesie are you going to tell us what your up to or is a surprise for us?" Sirius started to look excited. "No its not a surprise for you but a surprise for Lily" James jumped into bed and hoped the conversation would steer into another direction but alsa when Sirius wanted to know something nothing would stop him trying to find out. "So whats this surprise then? And I didn't know you had a little crush on Lily dear old Jamesie" Sirius smiled wickedly. "Shut up Padfoot. I'm going to take her to that clearing in the forbidden forest where the lake is alright!" Sirius's smile just widened even more. "Moony you knew he liked Miss Lily didn't you that day when you smiled and I looked at you as if to say whats going on and you shook your head?" Remus nodded and James just looked shocked. "Look can we talk about this in the morning because I need you all to help? And I need my rest" Said James. "Yeah ok Prongs, I have to admit that you do need some beauty sleep night everyone and that includes you Sirius any late night pranks tonight and I'll bite you" Remus smiled jokingly and pulled the hanging aroung his bed. James did the same as did Peter, Sirius on the other hand did one thing before closing his bed hangings. "Ahhhwooooooo" Just like a warewolf and then jumped into bed.
The next morning Sirius was asigned to keep Lily occupied so that Remus could haelp James (Peter would have kept Lily away from them but he was too shy). Sirius was the only one at breakfast in the great hall when Lily came down. "Hey Lil looks like it's just you and me today" he smiled cheekily. "Is it Where are James, Remus and Peter?" "Dunno anyway never mind them wanna go to Hogsmead?" "But how can we its not a Hogsmead weekend?" Sirius didn't answer just looked at Lily expectantly. "Come on Lil you know us" "True I s'pose you would know, but wont we get caught or in trouble?" "No don't worry about it I have everything we need. Come on breakfast is getting cold so get eating."Lily said no more and sat down to have breakfast. After breakfast Sirius lead Lily to the boys dorm and pulled out an invisability cloak and a piece of parchment. Sirius used his wand, pointed it at the piece of parchment and said. "I solmely swear I am up to no good" on the map appeared a lot of lines and Sirius moved the map out of Lily's view so that she couldn't see where James, Remus and Peter were. "Whats that Si?" Asked Lily trying to look. "It's a map so that I can see where the teachers are" "Does it show you where everyone is even the students?" "Yeah but we just need to make sure a certain area is clear."
Sirius grabbed Lily put the cloak aroung her and him and they left the common room. Sirius occasionally checked the map and then he reached where he wanted to, a statue of a humped witch. Sirius got his wand out again and gave the password. "Dissendium" the statue moved and made a tunel for them to climb into the passage way. Meanwhile in the forbidden forest three teenage boys were heading into a light clearing. There was a small lake, tress that had long branches covered in big leaves that hung low so you couldn't see inside the clearing. James and Remus started to transfigure some things and perform spells to make it the perfect space for James and LIly on christmas. Lily and Sirius at this point were in the Three broomsticks for butterbeers. Sirius being Sirius couldn't leave out the fact that James liked Lily so decided to play on it. "Lily what do you think of James?" Sirius tried hard not to smile too much but was failing out of habbit. Lily turned to face Sirius rather quickly this of course just made him smile even more. "Why?" She asked quickly. "I was just woundering what you thought of James, I could tell you what I think of James If you want to hear it?" "Ok tell me what you think of James?" "Well a while ago had the biggest ego you could imagine and he was a complete prat but then again we all were. As you can so obviously tell we're much nicer now. He is a great mate good for pranks and you can always tell when he's lieing to you about something, which means that if you hassel him about it enough he eventually gives in and tells you. Or is it just me because I'm annoying I think that's what he said something like that anyway." Sirius grinned and looked at Lily she made a slight face and began to tell Sirius what she thought of James. Lily was put of slightly by Sirius's silly grin. "Well he's really nice and he helped me a lot in loads of ways as did you, Remus and Peter. He makes me laugh and he has helped me by taking me out of the darkness that I used to be in and if he hadnt decided to stop and talk to me, I don't know where I would be." Sirius's smile had gone from a silly grin to a genuine sincear smile, one Lily had never seen before. The silence was slightly akward so Sirius smiled stupidly again. "Do you fancie James?" He said almost laughing. "Si!" "Well do you?" Sirius was just waiting and Lily just smiled and refused to answer. "Well there's a difference between you and James. You don't give in as easy as he does to my charm."
Later in the afternoon Sirius and Lily returned to the Gryffindor common room. James and Remus were already in the common room no one knew where Peter was. They were both smiling really widely and seemed very pleased with themselves. "Algright Moony, Prongs?" Sirius nodded to each as he sat down next to Remus and smioled sheepishly. "Alright Padfoot" "Hi Padfot" Said James and Remus. "And how are you Lily?" Asked Remus "we didn't see you today, where did you go?" "I went to Hogsmead with Si. Where were you two, both of you had left when we got up for breakfast?" "We went to do a bit pranking on Snape and we werent sure if you would want to, so we left Sirius to jeep you company" Said James smiling slightly apologetically. "Yeah sorry about that Lily, we wont leave you with him again I know he's a pain." Said Remus smiling. "No it was ok though the conversation wasn't exactly what I would have liked to talk about" Lily smiled a little. "Why what was it?" Asked James curiously. Lily went up to her dorm and muttered something about having to get some stuff from her room. Sirius strated laughing. "Padfoot what did you say to her?" Asked James. "Why worried Jamesie?" Sirius gave and evil little grin. "Sirius!" James jumped up and so did Sirius. "I'll tell you if you can catch me" Sirius ran as he said the last words out of the common room and James followed running closely behind. Remus just laughed. He he.
It was early in the morning and Lily woke up to the sound of some really bad carol singing. She soon found out that it was the marauders giving her a wake up call. "Oh we wish you a merry christmas, oh we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year-" "Ok, ok I'm up" said Lily groggily. "Merry christmas Lily" they all said together. "Thanx for the presants Lily they will come in real use for our annual christmas prank." Said Sirius smiling madly. "Yeah thanks Lily it was really noce of you" said Remus. "Thanks Lil" Said Peter. "Thanks Lily I really liked them" James gave Lily a hug and both went a select shade of pink. "Well come on then Lily darling open your presants I'm excited." Said Sirius jumping on the bed next to her she looked at James, Peter and Remus and patted her bed to indicate that they can sit down as well. Lily picked up a package that was from her dad and a begrudging Pertunia. Lily opened it and she had some money (which had been changed into wizard money), some new jeans and a top and a few muggle fiction books. Lily then came to four packages, she opened the one which had got open first write on it in flashing ink. She opened it and found a toilet seat with holly around the edge.
"Well I certainly wont be sitting on this" all the marauders laughed and Lily just smile. She lifted up the lid and dropped in with a strtled cry when it started singing. "I should have expected something like this." She then picked up the presant with open second on it, it was the diary Lily was fascinated with the fact that when she wrote in it and gave it to Sirius he couldn't see what she had put. "Ah that's really cool" she proceded to the third presant and opened it and foud a book with spells that you udse to put your hair up or to make it different styles and how to put make up on. "Are you lot trying to tell me something?" She laughed at their worried looks, and then they joined in Sirius a little too enthusiasticly as he does get sometimes and he nearly chocked. The last presant on her bed was a charm braclet with charms Lily took it out of the box and gasped. She put the braclet on with its charms dangeling off it. The charms were a warewolf, a stag, a dog and a small rat and a moon. Lily smiled knowingly at the charms and what they represented. They all headed down to the common room once they had changed and decided that they would do a little planning for their christmas prank and then go and have a snowball fight.
"Right so what are we going to do?" Said Sirius who for the first time actually seemed sirious about pranking. "Well it has to be humerous" said Remus "something that's going to make the whole school laugh and be shocked" "hmmm but what?" Said James thinking hard. Lily suddenly had an Idea after all they did know where the kitchens were so it was possible. "What about. No it's stupid" said Lily. "No go on Lily whats your idea?" Said Sirius hopefully. "Well ok but don't blame me if its stupid. We could go to the kitchens and ask the elves if they'll let us put a charm on all the christmas pudding, so that when someone goes to put a spoon in the oudding it starts shouting or singing or something." Lily shrugged, the marauders on the other hand thought it was a stroke of genius. "Lily that's great. Remus you know the libaray inside out go find a spell that makes christmas pudding sing when you touch it you could have a look in those books Lily gave us as well I bet there's one in their." They all left to go and get everyone else who was staying for the holidays to have a snowball fight all houses against each other, though Sirius and James only wanted it that way so they could kick Slytherins ass. Remus joined them after he had found the spell and the fight began.
Gryffindor won the snowball fight whether it was because they had more people on their team or whether it was because James and Sirius were good at Quidditch and therefore had good reflexes. Christmas dinner was in the great hall and when they had all dried off they went in and sat down at the one table with all the staff, three Slytherins, two Hufflepuffs and four Ravenclaws. Dinner was over and pudding appeared on the table, the marauders and Lily all smiled. They had cast the spell on the puddings before coming down to dinner. Everyone went to poke or stab a pudding with a spoon or falk and jumped when it started singing in a hight pitched shieking voice. Several puddings were singing all at the same time and different songs. McGonagall looked slightly flustered and was about to say something to Dumbledore, this didn't improve her mood to find him chuckling at the puddings. Then again McGonagall didn't need to ask who had done it she knew perfectly well who it was and she wasn't goignt o let them get away with it. After dinner she cornered them on their way out. "I want to see you four in my office now, Lily you may go to the common room and wait for them there I know you had nothing to do with this." "No professor I did have something to do with it, infact it was my idea they just helped, so if anyone should get in trouble it should be me." The marauders looked stunned they would have thought that if Lily could get out of trouble she would have, after all they didn't expect her to get in trouble and stick by them she hadnt been an original marauder. But they could gladly say she was now.
James took Lily away after McGonagall had finished giving them a lecture and the rest of the marauders went to the common room. Lily didn't know what James had planned but she found her self yet again under James's invisability cloak, and heading into the forbidden forest! When they got where they were going James pulled back some hanging branches and walked inside with Lily close by him because she was scared of being in the forest. It was the nicest place that Lily had been taken to there was a small lake with greenie blue sparkling water in there was a cooling bucket full of butterbeers and a large tree trunk that had a soft cushion against it. Lily and James sat next to each other and leaned on the cushion with James. "What do you think of the place?" Asked James. "Its lovely how long have you known about this place?" "About a year its yours now" "James thank you" "If you ever want to come down hear you let Sirius, Remus or me know and we'll bring you down under the cloak and we'll give you a two way mirror so you can tell us when you want picking up, its safer than you going on your own and you wont get caught. Oh and thanks for sticking with us today and not pretending to have nothing to do with our prank." "That's ok I didn't mind anyway what are friends for if not to stick together." "Well we as in the marauders and me would like to officaly make you a marauder. Welcome to the world of complete insainity" Lily laughed and shook James open hand. "Well as a marauder can I ask you some questions?" "Yeah of course you can"
"Well I know about Remus being a warewolf I've worked out that, that's what all his symptons were and the charm. I'v also worked out that the dog is Sirius who'sd nickname is Padfoot, yours is Prongs the stag charm and wormtail is the rat which is Peter's nick name but why are your called them names?" "How come you never said anything to any of us before about Remus?" "Well I didn't know whether you would be angry" "No I'm not angry just a bit shocked but I'll let them know you know and as for our nick names well your right about which animal goes fpr which name and person. The reason we have them names is because we are iligal animagius. Sirius is a dog, Peter a rat and me a stag. Remus is a warewolf because he got bite when he was a child, and the moon charm is because we all become these animals when it's a full moon. You cant tell anyonn any of this Lily." James smiled worriedly at Lily who just smiled. "You turned animagius just so Remus wasn't on his own every month. That's really kind and sweet James." Lily kissd James on the cheek and they stayed there until it got dark and then went back to the castle and James told the ither marauders what Lily knew.
Hey guys that was a longer chapter sorry if it went on a bit. I think I might have repeated myself a bit as well in places so im sorry about that as well. Please review because I want to know what you think cheers people, have a drink on my behalf. (