The Marauding Five Year Two

by bunny chan

it's their second years and the Marauders go up one age Note: this series, i'd decided, had nothing to do with the real one JKR wrote! MPPL

5. The Whomping Willow

AN: well, now that I had made Tally Lily's friend, it's much easier than being the only girl for Lily, isn't it? uh, maybe no, but who cares? ^_^ I've been a bit too off color these days, so I should just kick in some pranks in here. Review after reading, and I'll try to make this longer, like I'd promise.

bunny chan

Disclaimer: I don't own everything you recognize as JKR's, but I do own the storyline and side characters which I'd invented ^_^

The Marauding Five : Year Two

Chapter 5: The Whomping Willow

The days in Hogwarts passed happily by for the Marauders. Lily did well in Potions (her worst subject) because she'd found herself a rival in the Hufflepuff house, James excelled in Transfiguration, leaving a grumbling Lily right behind him, Remus faired quickly at DADA, earning points after points for Gryffindor, and Sirius? Well, he'd managed to scrape through. Lily had refused to help him since he held grudge against Fang, Hagrid's huge and massive boarhound, who simply refused to befriend him. James and Remus had to pull him through, and without Lily or anyone parroting him the day's homework, he's stuck. Sure, his brains managed to carry him through, but he needed help with his History of Magic. Asking that Ravenclaw, Anna, isn't much help as she'll drone everything, unlike Lily who can fake an accent and add in sarcastic remarks. There's only one thing in Sirius' mind now: Make up with Lily.

Sirius pleaded James to help him apologize to Lily, but the boy refused to, saying it was Sirius' fault. Remus simple shrug it off with a simple sentence. 'Just say sorry and you're done!' Hah. Simple, but hard. He, Sirius Orion Black, had vowed never to say sorry.

But this has got something to do with my friendship with Lily, he argued.

So?

So? So go say sorry!

But that vow…

Who cares? She's your friend and you wanna keep it that way, don't you?

I guess you're right.

Having finished arguing over himself, he braved himself to where he think the rest of the Marauders might be. He make his way towards the fourth floor, called 'The Hogwarts Marauders' at the mirror and entered their secret room. Remus was snoring peacefully at the end of the room and Lily and James were reading their books. A sure thing whenever they're bored. Taking another deep breath he said to himself, alright Sirius. This, has got to be the worst challenge that you'll face in your entire life.

He walked up to Lily and stuttered. He didn't know what he said, but Lily seemed at ease with his words, because she hugged him tightly and James patted him happily on his back.

And things were back to normal.

***

the next day

***

'EVANS, POTTER, BLACK, LUPIN!!!'

Remus sat up straight in bed. Lily and James gulped and Sirius hid under the table.

'Get out idiot! We're hidden, remember?' James hushed as Sirius grinned sheepishly at himself before crawling out. Lily got a glass and pressed it against the entrance as she placed her ear on the other side. She needn't too anyway, because McGonagall's voice came clearly to them.

'-planting Dungbombs in the Slytherin's common room! To even think they know where it is! And transfiguring all the couches, seats, beanbags and all into polar bears and killer whales? Bewitching everything to look like the South Pole, just wait till I get my hands on you!'

The four giggled silently. The night before, they had broken into the Slytherin common room, thanks to Sirius' 'charms' on a first year. She'd given him the password, the entrance… everything!

Remus planted Dungbombs here and there, James transfigured their seats and beanbags and Lily and Sirius did a long time in bewitching the whole room. When the Slytherins went to their common room to warm their toes, they were more than frozen when they stepped into the cold "sea" and into a fridge. Halley was informed and she had reported to all the professors. McGonagall, suspecting it to be the Marauders, had taken into searching for them for proofs.

'Let her search. Even if she goes to Trelawney, the Divination teacher, she can't find us. Trelawney doesn't have any psychic powers,' Lily waved dismissively. The others nodded. After all, their friend is psychic and a Seer. They went back to whatever they were doing before. Remus went back to sleep, James and Lily played wizard chess and Sirius was sorting the Prank Trunk.

'Lily, we need a new trunk. With that load my dad sent me yesterday, we haven't enough space left,' Sirius said as he pulled out a very big package from under his bed.

'Oh, just make a new one.'

'How?'

'You live with it already for two whole years and your parents used it for almost all their lives. Is it that hard?'

'Oh right. Magic. How come I always forget about it?'

'You need to be brighter?'

'Maybe.'

'Remember what our old primary teacher always say? Eat some peanuts if you wanna remember things. Something about expanding your brain cells.'

'You remember what she said?'

'Yeah.'

'Here's your peanuts.'

A huge load of peanuts fell on Sirius' head, and soon, he is hidden by the peanut load.

'THIS much? Am I an elephant?'

'No, but I figure you have loads of things to remember.'

'No Re. He is and elephant, judging by the way he eats his food!'

'I'm a growing kid!'

'So'm I, but did I eat as much as fifty quidditch team? No.'

'Jam's right.'

'Quit calling me Jam!'

'Nah! Besides, you like strawberry jam, so why not?'

'It seems like a crime to like jam…'

'Right.'

'EVANS, POTTER, BLACK, LUPIN!'

Again, the four gulped.

'Li, are you sure your "Inner-eye" is never yet wrong?' Sirius asked the girl.

'Of course! Trust me, she just wants us to show up. Your mother warned you to not get too many detentions this year and we're trying here!'

'Right. So far, we only had fifty eight detention slips. Re, your mom won't mind will she?'

'Hopefully, no.'

McGonagall's quick footsteps went off quickly.

'You know, it's been long sine we hadn't done anything,' Sirius said thoughtfully.

'How about giving Mrs Norris the curse of bogies?' James asked.

'Filch always watched out for her ever since we gave her antlers and painted her blue,' Remus said gloomily.

'I know!' Lily said, jumping up.

'What?'

'Let's exchange our personalities!'

'Huh? How?'

'We'll play this. Tomorrow's Monday right? We'll have Potions with Hufflepuff, Transfiguration, Herbology with Slytherin, The Droning Class and Flying with Ravenclaw. Shortly, we'll have lessons with all the houses tomorrow.'

The trio nodded.

'So here's the fun part. We'll go in a different personality! Remus, you'll take James and answer to James' name. James will take Sirius and answer to Sirius' name. Sirius can take Remus and answer to Remus' name only. I can always pull Tally over and we can both exchange. And we'll act like each other. Remus can be like James, always a know-it-all and very kind and helpful. James, take over Sirius' personality. Pretty easy, since you can just throw Dungbombs everywhere and act like a maniac. Sirius? Sorry, but take Remus' sensible part and be sensible for just tomorrow, okay?'

They nodded in agreement, grins plastered on their face. Lily left the boys to talk about each other's personality as she ran back to the Gryffindor tower to look for Tally, who will be playing her role. On her way, she bumped into the person she just hated to.

'Snape,' Lily said coldly as the greasy boy smirked sneeringly at her.

'Yes, me. I was wondering what a wizard filth who has no idea of her being a witch for the past years until the day she received her Hogwarts acceptance,' Snape sneered.

'Well, in case you're wondering, I did knew that I was a witch before coming, you dolt. But sadly, I didn't seem to realize it until I was knocked by that owl,' Lily replied calmly as she pulled her wand out.

'Oooh, just what are you going to do, o' mighty one?' Snape mocked.

Without a word, Lily waved her wand as she muttered something under her breath. Having done with Snape, Lily smiled at the greasy-haired rat in front of her.

'Don't you think you look better this way? A rat, greasy coat and little beady eyes. Exactly like Severus Gordon Snape, don't you think?' Lily smiled sweetly at the rat before carrying it to the Hospital Wing. Knocking on the door, she left Snape the Rat in front of it before pelting him with rocks and limestone and attached a note at his neck.

Heading back to the Gryffindor common room, Lily heard a loud scream from the Hospital Wing.

'What was that?' Tally asked curiously as she looked up from her Transfiguration essay.

'That scream? Oh, Madam Pomfrey hates rats,' Lily replied as she laughed speechlessly.

'What happened, Lily?'

'See, I sorta met Snape along way here and thought I'd change him into a rat.'

'And then?'

'I bring him to the hospital wing in a tissue – his coat's greasy – and I left him in front of the door with a note.'

'What did that note say?'

'Please, Poppy Pomfrey, I'd like to be your pet! You can cuddle me all the time and I'll swear my life onto yours! Love, Severus Gordon Snape the Rat.'

'Gosh Lily, you actually knew his middle name?'

'It was no biggie. He wrote it in front of his robes for all to see.'

'And being Pomfrey's p- p- pet? C- cuddle him? You're hopeless!'

Lily did a bow. 'I tried my best.'

Lily then heard the familiar wailing. 'EVANS! I SHALL GET BACK AT YOU!! YOU SHALL PAY WITH YOUR LIFE!'

'Weird. I don't remembering selling my life, so how can I pay him?' Lily asked curiously at Tally, who fell over with bits of laughter.

'Okay, okay, I come here for a reason Tally. Interested in a little warming up? Say, play a joke on the teachers?' Lily started. Tally stopped immediately. That, is what she'd like. And Lily, one of the famous Marauders, asking her, Tally Chapman? The blonde agreed straightaway.

'See, how about we switch personalities? You pretend to be me, a know-it-all, and I pretend to be you, a blur and slow girl!' Lily said.

'What d'you mean?'

'You'll play my part for the whole of tomorrow, and I'll play yours! You will be Lily Evans and I'll be Tally Chapman. You can take my space at the Marauders tomorrow, but it isn't like we're going to do much,' Lily said with a grin.

Tally reconsidered this.

'Oh, say that you would! Please! Please! Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty please!!! With a huge red cherry on the top along with cream and peaches?'

'Okay. It sounds like fun,' Tally said, giving in. Lily whooped with joy as she started explaining how she usually acts. Tally exchanged her facts with her.

'Okay, now that this is done, how about a little chat?' Tally suggested.

'Fine with me. I'm bored.'

'About James…'

'What about him now?'

'Do you like him?'

'No!' a little too quick there.

'Are you sure?'

'Positive. Why'd people keep asking that anyway? I have half of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw asking me the same question.'

'Because you two looked cute! They say opposites attract. He's dark, you're light!'

'Tal, opposites do attract, I agree, but he's not dark and I'm not light!'

'Your hair?'

'Mine's red. A sorta light shade, but what has it got to do with it?'

'Your eyes. His are brown and yours are green.'

'Still, what has it got to do with it?'

'Lots, Lily. Are you two just friends or more than meets eye?'

'Tal, we're not friends.'

'Aha!'

'No, cause the Marauders are all like siblings. We grew up together, did everything together. And I'm just their younger sister.'

'Any feelings, Lil?'

'Feelings?' Lily's puzzled now.

'You know, feelings? For any of them?' Tally asked, narrowing her eyes to slits.

'Huh?' the girl answered stupidly.

'You really don't know?'

'No. What do you mean anyway?'

'Nothing. You guys looked cute in that photo,' Tally said dreamily.

'It wasn't anything. We always sleep, is that a crime?'

'Sleeping with one of the cutest boy in school is a crime.'

'Whaddya mean "One of the cutest"?'

'Lily, James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin are one of the cutest boy in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!!! Hello? Don't you know?'

Lily still looked puzzled. 'No.'

'Forget it. The reason why half of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw came to you is because you're one of the cutest girl in school too. No one wants their secret crushes to be off with another.'

'I'm confused. Explain it. Slowly, this time.'

Tally sighed. This is going to be soo long. Explaining what's love to this curious girl is going to be a pain. Lily's absolutely puzzled about all and not understand even a thing. As a girl, you'd probably think she does, but she'd truly confused about all of this, understanding not even a word.

'Lily?'

'Yes?'

'Do you understand what's love?'

'Well, according to the dictionary here' Lily waved her wand and a dictionary popped out 'it's a mutual feeling from one to another?'

'Quite close. Have you experienced it before?' Tally knew she hadn't, but still…

'No. and I simply can't use any of my pow-' Lily clamped her mouth. This got Tally's attention.

'What was it Lil? Powers?'

'Uh, nothing. I said I don't understand anything about these uh, powers,' Lily added with a laugh.

'Now Lily, I know you're hiding something. You have to explain how you know all those exams, managed out of the forest alive and confuse McGonagall.'

'Uh…' No backing out now, Lily gulped to herself. 'Okay… I'm-'

The boys barged in, grinning idiotically at themselves. Thank heavens! Lily breathed silently.

'Hey guys!' Lily waved them over. 'What are you up to?'

'See, we'd sorta bumped into Snape on the way, so James changed him into a rat!' Sirius giggled.

'And it has this greasy coat and little beady eyes too!' Remus coughed out with laughs.

'We sent him to Pomfrey and add this note we found on the floor,' James said, crying as tears were pouring from his eyes.

'What did it say?' Lily asked, knowing well what it said and Pomfrey's reaction.

'It says "Please, Poppy Pomfrey, I'd like to be your pet! You can cuddle me all the time and I'll swear my life onto yours! Love, Severus Gordon Snape the Rat."! Gosh, the matron actually fainted!' Sirius choked out.

'Lily, didn't you just did that?' Tally asked.

'What, she did?'

'Yeah. She was the one who sent him to Pomfrey with that note and as a rat. Pomfrey screamed.'

'Congratulations, Lily! This must have been Snape's best record: Twice in a day as a rat! Done by the Marauders of Hogwarts!' Remus said solemnly. The whole group burst out laughing again.

'So Lily, back to the main subject?' Tally asked.

'Huh?' Lily replied. She'd forgotten completely everything.

'What main subject?' Sirius asked.

'Her feelings for James,' Tally said.

'Goody! I was about to reproach her for that!' Sirius bounced towards them. James glared angrily, face flushing red and Remus join the three at the table.

'What feelings?'

'Lily, don't tell me you'd forgotten everything?'

'Yep!'

'Y'know, for a smart girl like you, you forget what I tell pretty fast,' Tally mused angrily.

That's 'cause I hadn't. Mind you, Tally, I know exactly what you're talking about, what you're gonna tell me and what you're going to make me do it. I just don't want to and I'll leave here now, Lily said to herself with a smirk, but quickly alter it into a confuse one.

'Sorry Tal. I think I'll go first. Remus, I want a talk.'

Remus gulped. Rarely Lily talked with him, unless it's really important. Lily beckoned James and Sirius along, leaving Tally confused at what is going on. After leading them to their secret hideout, she made Remus sit.

'What's this all about Li?' Sirius asked, curiosity taking over him.

'Remus, we'd already promised that whenever we find a secret passage, we'll tell the rest of the Marauders, didn't we?' Lily asked Remus, ignoring Sirius' question. Gulping, Remus nodded slowly.

'What is this, Lily? Why are you asking Remus that?' James asked again.

'Well, why didn't you tell us about the Whomping Willow?' Remus gulped again, turning pale white.

'What about that hitting willow? It's been on the school grounds since last year!' Sirius protested.

'Sorry Si. I was reading last night in the common room because I can't seem to sleep. I saw someone going to the Whomping Willow, since it's a full moon. Remus, why didn't you tell us that you used the Whomping Willow to transform and that there's a secret passage under it?'

'There is?'

'Yes. I saw Remus emerging from it after some howlings at the Shrieking Shack. Interesting, isn't it?'

'I never knew that you were this clever.'

'I'm not clever, Si. I'm just alert. Spill it out, Re.'

'Uh, see, since I'm a werewolf,' the others nodded 'I need to transform every full moon.'

They nodded.

'So Dumbledore got me a place. At the roots of the Whomping Willow.'

'But you promised, Re!'

'But Dumbledore told me not to tell!'

'Reason accepted. It leads to the Shrieking Shack?' Lily asked, jumping in excitement.

'Yes. I'm so sorry I didn't tell you all this last year,' Remus said, looking down.

'Who cares? Lily always jumps into conclusions without much thinking,' Sirius said, eyeing the girl. Lily glared back. Sirius and Lily were always in fights these days. About Fang, about who has the best idea, about – everything. Lily usually came up victorious, because she had her psychic powers to help her and she mostly have James and Remus to back her up.

'Well, I sometimes do, Sirius, but you do too,' Lily replied casually.

'Um, Li? Si? You guys aren't really friends yet, are you?' Remus started timidly.

'Not exactly.'

'Who cares anyway? Quidditch, anyone?' James suggested. This got Lily and Sirius perked up. Quickly grabbing the Quidditch balls from the cupboard (leaving the golden snitch), they left for the Quidditch pitch, only to find Snape and the Slytherin Quidditch Team.

'Well well, what have we here? The Filth Gang,' Snape drawled as the rest of the Slytherins snickered and sneered.

'Sorry. It's known as "The Potter Gang" or better and more official, the Marauders,' James said coldly.

'Who cares? You are all filth to the wizarding community. Living with a squib too, aren't you?' Snape sneered at Lily.

'No. My sister's no squib. She's a muggle. My parents adopted her when I was only one, thinking that it'll be nice for young Lily to have an older sister. She still hasn't known that yet. I used my, uh, found her adoption form,' Lily said dismissively, glad that Petunia Evans isn't related to her by blood.

'Didn't you notice how different Petty girl was from her family?' Sirius asked, rolling his eyes as if it was a clear fact.

'Her father's not blonde. He's black haired. Her family all had green eyes. The muggle has blue. Her family's all perfectly slender, Petty's bony. The Evans' neck's pretty average. Petunia's can pass for a giraffe,' Remus said.

Snape snorted.

'Hah! Who cares? Us Slytherins are using the field. You aren't here to spy, are you?'

'Who needs to? Gryffindors are good enough than needing to spy. I remembered catching Yowlt spying at us. Lucky Remus caught him and sent him off with a full body-bind. You, too, Snape. Too bad, we were too busy to hex you,' Sirius said, laughing as he recalled the last time the Gryffindors had their practice. Yowlt turned red with anger.

'I wasn't spying, wizard filth! I was just passing by!'

'Passing by? You stood there for an hour!' Remus pointed out.

'Heavens, just what are you all doing here?' Halley's voice rushed over. The woman came running towards them, glaring at them all.

'What are you all doing here? Didn't you hear the new rules? No one is allowed out later than five!'

'Why Halley?' Sirius asked curiously.

'You-Know-Who is gaining power these days. It's not safe to stay outside late, so in you go!' Halley said briskly as she hushed them back into the castle.

'You-Know-Who?' Lily asked, confused.

'The Dark Lord, Evans,' the professor replied.

'Who's he?'

'Voldemort,' James replied simply.

'Potter!' Halley said sharply, as James' reply had sent shivers to the Slytherins and the teacher.

'What did he say wrong?' Lily put in defensively.

'Yeah!' Remus and Sirius backed her.

'H- he said You-Know-Who's name!' Gratshead, the Slytherin captain, shivered.

'So? What's with his name? Why did you call him You-Know-Who anyway?' Lily asked.

'Voldemort,' (everyone but the Marauders flinched) 'is a dark wizard. He is dedicated to the Dark Arts and these days, he's collecting recruits. Whoever who refused him will be killed by the unforgivable curse, Avada Kedavra,' James said it in an eerie voice. 'BAH!'

The Slytherins jumped and ran straight to the Slytherin tower, stepping over Mrs Norris and knocking clumsily into walking armors as James laughed heartily at them.

'Gosh, just a little fright and they ran off just like that! Guess we aren't Gryffindors for nothing huh?' James said happily as they went back to the Gryffindor Tower.

'Still, why didn't they say Voldemort's name?' Remus asked again.

'See, they're sooo frighten of him that they daren't call him by name. Thus, they referred to him as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and You-Know-Who. The later part always makes everyone confused,' James said, grinning.

'Why?' Lily asked.

'You know who? You know who did it?'

'What does that mean to those who're afraid of that wizard?'

'"Voldemort? Voldemort did it?"?' Lily put in helpfully.

'Right.'

'And for those that aren't?'

'Afraid of him? They'll take it as a normal sentence. It's like "You knew? You knew who did it?"'

'Oh.'

'Maybe we should frighten the Slytherins more with this Voldemort guy. Anyway, remember that we have a joke to play tomorrow!' Lily said as she ran back to her dorm, skipping happily.

'Isn't she at least afraid of that dark lord?' James asked Sirius in wonder.

'Beats me. I mean, even I'm a little afraid of him. Think of it, him, coming to Hogwarts, killing everyone with the Avada Kedavra,' Sirius shivered at that before moaning, 'I don't wanna die at the young age of twelve!!!'

'So'm I. Heck, if he came here, I don't think I can take him,' Remus said uncomfortably. Defense against the Dark Arts is his best subject, but he hadn't the confidence to face the dark lord.

'Well, Lily doesn't seemed bothered by him and neither am I. Maybe living like a muggle all those years helped,' James said thoughtfully as they too, head back to their dorm, each with their own thoughts about Voldemort.

At Lily's dorm, the girls are in a deep conversation about Voldemort.

'Hello girls!' Lily greeted them cheerfully before waving her wand. Her waist-long hair was instantly undone from it's plait and she is automatically dressed in her nightgown.

'Hi Lily,' Pertsy, Tally and Sita greeted back. Nina, however, just ignored her. Bossy show-off, Lily said to herself.

'What are you girls talking about?'

'You-Know-Who. We aren't allowed to stay outside the school grounds after five because of him.'

'Voldemort?'

'Sssshh!!! Don't say that name!' Pertsy hissed as chills went down the four's spines.

'Why not? You-Know-Who's kinda confusing.'

'He is.'

'No, I mean that title. It's just plain stupid. Just call him by the name. Everyone has names to be known.'

'…'

'And besides, you're rude to just call him You-Know-Who. Say his name! It's Vol-De-Mort.'

'Don't say it!' Nina hissed angrily at her, throwing a poison glare.

'Why not?'

'He might hear you!'

'And?'

'He'll come after you, idiot!'

'Idiot? You're calling me an idiot when you can barely even do a simple spell? So what if he comes after me?'

'Shut up, mudblood!'

'And just who's a muggle-born here? None of us, Nina, so just keep quiet!'

'You're a mudblood, Lily Evans.'

'I don't think so. I'm a pure-blood, thank you very much.'

Nina just sulked. 'You're a mudblood. The Slytherins say so. And I don't take orders from mudbloods.'

'You're actually believing a Slytherin?' Sita gasped softly.

'Right. So shut up.'

Sita looked ready to cry.

'Why are you grumpy, Nina?' Tally asked.

'Why am I grumpy? You're asking me why? Because she,' Nina pointed at Lily, 'Took my best friend from me!'

'Wha-?' Lily looked stunned. She? Took Nina's best friend? Then she knocked hard on herself. Tally was Nina's best friend last year. This year, both she and Tally had befriended each other and had discovered that both shared almost all the same things.

'And for that, you accused her? Goodness, Nina, you should have known better than that!' Tally almost screamed. Lily looked hurt. Maybe, just maybe, she had. Taking someone's best friend is hard for the other to receive the blow. But sometimes, she, Lily Evans, need a friend to confide into. James had Sirius and Sirius had James. Remus simply stood on his own, contented with where he is. But even if those three had been good friends with her, she'd still a girl who needed to share her feelings with another. She'd trusted Tally enough for that, but now, Nina is angry with her for doing so.

'-And I don't really enjoy painting nails, wearing make-ups and all! Can't you just see that?' Tally said to Nina.

'Well just say something then!' Nina replied angrily.

'I did. Tons of times actually. At least I have someone to talk to when I'm with Lily! She listens, unlike you. You just went on ranting about boys non-stop, different shades of nail-polishes and kept powdering my face with the horrid make-up! I want a friend who listens. One I can confide my secrets with. One that will share with me everything!' Lily heard Tally screaming angrily.

'Tally?' Lily asked in a shaking voice. The blonde turned automatically to her. 'Forget it. Don't start on her.'

'Being a goody-two shoes aren't you? Leave this dorm. You are not welcomed in here.' Nina's voice did a sort of smirk.

Lily grabbed her wand, pull her blanket, stuffed her school bag with the next day's lesson books and went straight out of the door. But not before her transfiguring Nina into a spawn. 'Lily!' Tally, Pertsy and Sita called after her, but the red head seemed determine. As her red hair swished by her knees, Lily went straight out of the Gryffindor Tower and headed towards the fourth floor. She met Mrs Norris on the way, looking for mice. The cat hissed angrily at her, but Lily waved her wand, powdering the cat white.

'The Hogwarts Marauders,' Lily whispered to the mirror before stepping into the hidden room. It was as they had left it the day before. Lily walked towards her bed and settled her things down. Lucky I found this room. At least I don't have to deal with Nina here, Lily said to herself as she let her thoughts wonder. Nina accused her of stealing her best friend, Tally Chapman. Why hadn't I remembered it before? Lily asked herself bitterly. Tally was Nina's friend last year, but Nina could at least be soft a bit. Listening to a Slytherin? HAH! She'd award those Slytherins for calling her, a pure-blood witch, a muggle-born.

Lily sat up and went to her Prank Trunk before rummaging it. She happily pulled out a big box. The boggarts Gram had sent her last year. Oooh, she'll have fun with it! She'll plant one in Nina's bag tomorrow, two in Snape's and one more in Nina's desk. Carefully scooping one up into a small box, Lily set off for the Owlery to find Lotus.

On her way back, she planted one under Nina's desk in the Transfiguration class.

Smiling with satisfaction, Lily went to sleep with a small smile playing on her lips.

The next morning, a search for Lily was started. Sita had reported that the girl was not in the dorm all night, not in the common room and neither in the library (though that'll be impossible, for the library's closed all night). Tally explained to McGonagall about Lily walking out of the room the night before and to nowhere. Pertsy was looking for the girl everywhere. Only Nina seemed smug with herself.

'I bet You-Know-Who got her. Good thing too.'

The boys came down at that moment.

'Voldemort got whom?' Sirius asked sleepily. Nina fidgeted uncomfortably. Dealing with the boys is different from Lily. They are three. Lily is one, thus giving her more chances to be offended easily without her "older brothers" to support her, defend for her or stop her from too many outbursts.

'Lily's missing. I trust she's not in your dorm?' McGonagall asked sternly.

'WHAT? LILY MISSING??' The three jumped automatically at that, eyes wide open and all their sleepiness forgotten. The girls and the professor shrank a bit from their outburst.

Meekly, Tally nodded. She pulled James away from the gang before explaining all of the night's events to him. Since James was the one closest to Lily in the group, she'd trusted him with all the details. James nodded once she's finished before climbing out of the hole.

'Just where are you going, Potter?' McGonagall asked sharply. To her surprise, Remus answered her.

'I'm staying here, Minnie. Wherelse am I going?'

'I believe your name is not Potter, Lupin.'

'Minnie, of course I'm not Potter! I know I'm Remus Romulus Lupin, and that, is a fact,' Sirius said solemnly.

'Black, what are you playing here?'

'Sirius just went out to fetch Tally,' Remus said.

'Right. Lily, Sirius just went out. Didn't he?' Sirius asked Tally sweetly. Of course! The prank! Tally hit her head mentally.

'Right. Poor Tally.'

'Chapman, not you too?'

'No. I'm Lily.'

'I'm James.'

'And I'm Remus.'

'Sirius just went out to fetch Tally.'

The girls and McGonagall almost fainted with dizziness.

Meanwhile, James was heading to the fourth floor when he saw Mrs Norris, white as can be. He stiffled his laughter silently. Apparently, Lily must have charmed the cat again. He called the password to the mirror as it swung open to admit him. He looked around and saw a lump lying on Lily's bed. Lily was clutching hard at her covers and had a pained expression on her usually calm features.

He walked over to her as he shook her lightly.

'Hey Lily! Wake up!'

He heard her mutter a little, but didn't quite catch it. He shook her again.

'Lily, wake up!'

Another mutter. This time, he caught a little of it. 'What's in her dream that'll make her say Voldemort?'

He shrug, deciding to ask Lily later on. He proceeded to shake the girl again, but she sat straight up with an ear-piercing scream.

'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

'Whoa, slow it Lily!' James said as he tried to comfort the frantically crying girl.

'James! What are you doing here?' Lily asked. Her green eyes were full of unshed tears and she's sweating profusely.

'Why did you scream?'

'Green light. Parkinsons. Killed. Voldemort,' the girl managed to stutter before crying on James' shoulders.

'Now, slow it! What happened?'

Lily cried a little more and took deep breathes before getting herself ready to explain everything.

'I was dreaming. I saw Voldemort. He's kinda short, about Remus' height. He went to the Parkinsons. They- they- they are killed. By the Avada Kedavra curse,' Lily said before sobbing again.

'Hush Lily! It's only a dream,' James said as he patted her lightly.

'I- I- I'm a Seer,' Lily's muffled words came to him. Of course! His friend is a Seer. Shivering, he calmed her down, grabbed all her things as he led her towards Dumbledore's office. Kicking at the gargoyle, he called out at it to open the entrance to Dumbledore's office. After much screaming for three minutes, the gargoyle opened to reveal Albus Dumbledore, annoyed at the disturbance.

'Now, why are you demanding to see me?'

Lily broke down into sobs all over again as she explained her dream to the professor, avoiding the part to explain that she's a Seer. The old wizard looked thoughtful at it.

'I'll see to it, Lily, that the Parkinsons perform the Fidelus Charm. As for their daughter, I will send her home right away to ensure her of her safety along with her family.'

'Oh, do be quick sir! My dreams usually takes place two days after it happened!' Lily pleaded as she sobbed once again into James' robes, soaking it with her tears. The professor nodded solemnly before seeing them off. 'And next time, the password's Anti-Voldemort. My gargoyle looked beaten up now. First, you color it, kick it and draw on it. now, you're kicking it again, not to mention giving it a curse,' Dumbledore said as he eyed at the gargoyle with an amused expression. 'Sorry.'

Lily collected herself and this time, she's as calm as the wind.

'Hey Sirius, where's James, Lily and Remus?' Lily asked, remembering her role as Tally.

'Well, I'll bet you anything that they're in the Great Hall. FOOD!!!' James bounced off quickly, leaving Lily running after him because he still had her schoolbag.

'Sirius, you're having my bag!'

'Huh? He's James, Lily, not Sirius,' Arthur Weasley, a seventh year, pointed out.

'Oh, he's Sirius all right. And I'm not Lily. I'm Tally.' The seventh year looked confused at her before shaking his head and walking off.

'Sorry Tally, here's your bag,' James said in a smug Sirius-like way as he handed Lily her book bag.

'Thanks a lot, Black. It's about time,' Lily muttered as they walked into the Great Hall when the Owl Post came in. Lily sat herself opposite Tally, who was sitting with James, Sirius and Remus. Nina, however, sat right at the end of the table. Lotus swooped down to her, carrying the box. The curious girl opened it as a huge spider with eight legs started crawling on the Gryffindor table, sending squeals, screams and half the girls fainting. Nina had passed out at the sight of the giant spider. When the spider came to Lily's side of the table, Lily stood in front of it. And to their greatest surprise, it vanished. Disappeared with a pop. A few third years muttered to themselves about still being afraid of boggarts after their DADA classes as the others sank back to reality, shook all the fainted girls awake. Lily grinned secretly at the Marauders. Tally hadn't seen the grin as she was still staring at where the spider vanished in front of Lily. Lily jumped down the table, gracefully landing behind them.

'Does that help you, Lily?' Lily asked Tally, who nodded, upon understanding what Lily meant.

'Thanks, Tally! It helped a lot,' Tally said. She's feeling quite strange, calling someone else her own name.

'Glad it does,' Lily grinned.

Thrice, had the giant spider appeared and thrice Lily had to jump in front of it to stop the boggart from turning into something else. Rumors were heard from the Ravenclaws that they'd seen Snape's mother, twice, on that very day. The same greasy hair, but a much nicer smile. She looked pretty mean and, according to the Anna, seems one not to be messed with.

The Marauders and Tally had taken to confusing the whole school with their sudden change of names. Remus answered only to James' name, answering half the question alongside with Tally (Lily whispered her the answers), James reacted to Sirius' name, played all sorts of pranks and came up with unthinkable cutting remarks, Sirius was perfectly sane and full of sensible words, just like Remus. Lily had to keep whispering answers into Tally's ears, instructing the girl here and there so that she acted just like Lily herself. Tally was prodded and poked lots of time that day, for almost answering to her name. Lily had no problem in disguising her personality with Tally's and responded fully to the name of Tally Chapman. After the day had passed, they sat down together for a good laugh at the day's events, Snape's mother and Nina's fear of spiders.

'POTTER, EVANS, BLACK, LUPIN!' McGonagall's usual screech echoed through the thick walls of Hogwarts castle. Instantly, four heads popped one by one at her office door.

'Yes, Minnie?' Lily asked sweetly.

'Just what had you done to Pettigrew?' McGonagall's voice had a dangerous note in it.

'Absolutely nothing, Minnie,' James said.

'Totally innocent,' Sirius put in.

'And we're not guilty, so don't bother,' Remus said with a wave.

'What happened to that rat anyway?' Lily asked.

'Halley had just reported to me that Pettigrew was sent to the hospital wing for growing two pairs of arms and petrified,' McGonagall said, surveying the report before her. 'She suspected that the Marauders are responsible, because Pettigrew, in his petrified state, had claimed that four Gryffindors had made him that way.'

'And you suspect us? It could be Nina, Dan, Thomas or Pertsy or anyone, as the whole of Gryffindors hated the Slytherins.'

McGonagall reconsidered this statement. 'Well, you may be right, but I don't see their reason to harm Pettigrew.'

Remus rolled his eyes. 'Minnie, we saved that idiot from the giant squid!' One thing about saving a Slytherin from the giant squid is you can get away easily whenever the Slytherins blamed you for playing pranks on them. The others nodded eagerly. McGonagall just looked confused.

'You did? Well, I guess we could pass on your then,' the young professor said as she shook her head in puzzlement. The Marauders grinned and bowed at her before walking out again.

Once outside, they stiffled their laughs and giggles as they remember how they'd cursed Pettigrew. Remus was tired and very annoyed with the boy, worshipping and following them wherever they go, causing them to have a hard time to play their pranks. Thus, Remus had decided to send him off with two extra pairs of arms, Lily charmed his hair and skin to turn neon green, Sirius petrified him and James put a full body-bind on his arms and legs. When Madam Pomfrey saw the boy lying pitifully in front of the infirmary, she almost fainted with fright.

'You just don't know what'll happen if you annoy us,' Sirius said with a smirk. The others just laughed.

'Hey, why're you all laughing?' Tally's voice asked.

'Hiya Tally! See, we just turn Pettigrew green, give him extra arms, petrify him and put a full body-bind on him,' Lily said between stifles of laughter.

Tally snorted hard into her hands before laughing alongside with them.

'I saw him! Dan had made my teeth longer, so I had to visit the Hospital Wing. When I saw something green shining brightly from the other bed, I just couldn't contain my curiosity. You know me, always curious, so I peeped behind the curtains to find a boy with six arms, neon green all over, petrified and stiff looking!' Tally said, laughing hard as she held on her stitch at the side.

'Anyway, I had to go and finish my Potions essay. Later!' Tally said, running off to the Gryffindor common room.

'So, what are we gonna do now?' James asked, turning to the group.

'I dunno. Raid the kitchens?' Remus suggested with a shrug.

'I've got a better idea! Since we know where's the Slytherin's dungeons, how about going into it and cause a commotion in it? Instead of having polar bears like last time, maybe we can transfigure and bewitch it into something like a muggle disco pub? I heard that the new password was "Slytherin Blood" because I passed by it once, trying to sneak some Dungbombs in,' Lily said as she jumped with excitement.

'What are we waiting for then?' Sirius ask, holding his wand.

'Night time, idiot! We can't do it in broad daylight,' James said as Remus and him smack Sirius on his head.

'Oh. Yeah. Right. I forgot,' Sirius mumbled, rubbing his head.

That night, Sirius, James, Lily and Remus crept quietly out of the Gryffindor Tower and led their bodies to the Slytherin Dungeons.

'Ssh! Hush it down, Si!' Lily hissed. Remus had stepped on Sirius' foot and the boy was now hopping up and down along the hallway, exposing himself, crying cried of pain whilst Remus kept mumbling for forgiveness from him. James gave a shrug at Lily. 'He'll keep jumping I think. By the looks of it, I think this'll take some time.'

'We'll get caught!'

'Which idiot will come out at two in the morning?'

'Potter, Evans, Black, Lupin! Just what are you doing out here?' McGonagall's sharp voice asked as she dragged them to her office.

'Come to think of it, it's Voldemort hunting time and Minnie so happened to be patrolling tonight,' Lily mumbled as she helplessly followed their Transfiguration teacher to her office.

'Yeah, and you couldn't see it coming? Some Seer,' Sirius hissed.

'Hey, I was distracted! Besides, my Psychic powers and Inner Eye isn't all that powerful yet!' Lily whispered in dismay, wishing that she'd bothered to train her powers more often.

'Forget this argument. We're caught and we're dead meat,' Remus said gloomily.

'You're alive and not a corpse yet,' James mumbled grumpily, kicking a nearby armor hard. The armor yelled in pain as McGonagall yelled at them for silence. Sulkily, the four followed their teacher to her office.

'I never in all my days in Hogwarts! Wandering around all by yourselves at night. What sort of behavior is this?' McGonagall asked as she sat herself behind her desk.

'Uh, um, one that's supposed to be a tradition?' Sirius put in meekly.

'A tradition? I think not, Black. Detention at Hagrid's this Sunday. All of you. Wandering around at night when You-Know-Who's active with Death Eaters and all! Dark magic is everywhere and you, only a second year, are not capable in dealing with all those highly advance magic!' McGonagall snapped angrily. Without another word, she see them all to their dorm and made sure that they were back in bed, afraid that they will try something stupid, muttering to herself, 'Trying to bait You-Know-Who. They think they can face him? Kids just won't understand anything, Minerva.'

The professor went back to patrolling.

AN: I promised that this'll be long and so it is ^_^ I kept it, didn't I? *starts bouncing around* didn't I? Didn't I? Well, enough said from me. please review ^_^