The Marauding Five : Year Four

AN: New chapter again!!! I went through the horrif exam and… no result yet. *sigh* I wish I passed… anywayz, not many people reviewed for me the last chapter ;-; I'm dreadfully heartbroken!!!! To those nice, sweet people who did, I am really, really thankful to you all!!!! To those naughty ones [:P] I'm really, really sad… I'll try and see if I can get this Chalet School thingy… and I am neither British nor American, cause I'm Chinese!!

And the Marauders are all like meeee!!!!!! So if you're like them, even the tiniest bit, you're like me!!! I had all my personalities in them except their brains and some facts you probably knew already.

Anywayz, hope you guys like this! My friend hadn't read it, yet, except the first part… and she's being really horrid by laughing her head off [what's so funny anyway?]. Puh-leez!!!!!!! I beg everyone of you!!!!!!! Read and review!!! Please?

bunny chan

Disclaimer: the TMF series is strictly mine! The characters and everything that belongs to me is all mine. Yes, this new storyline, too, since I'm just using JKR's characters and main idea. I don't follow her storyline, though.

The Marauding Five : Year Four

Chapter 4: Animagi Potion

Remus was, yet again, spacing out about his werewolf transformation that night a month ago. Tonight was just another adventure, another horrifying transformation and another experience, all by himself in the Shrieking Shack. All by himself…

Just then, someone clapped a hand on the boy's should, and Lily, being Lily, guessed everything.

'Wish you weren't alone, huh? Maybe you'd better wish the clouds are dark and thick,' Lily said.

'You can't transform without the moonlight, right?' Adele's pale face jumped into view. Remus nodded.

'Anyway, I predict the potion'll be done by next year,' James said, holding Lily's very, very expensive crystal ball.

'That's mien!! It costs me fifty galleons!' Lily cried, trying to get it back.

'Aww, borrowing us wouldn't hurt, right?' Sirius pleaded. Lily jabbed him hard.

'Yes it will, especially you. And not with him around,' Lily hissed, snatching the crystal orb back and pointed at the "him", who is wandering innocently with a blank face.

Ripp isn't any ordinary teacher. For one, he's Minerva McGonagall's cousin, absurd as it may seem since McGonagall might have put sense into him after a short five minutes lecture. For another, he's the clumsiest person alive. He couldn't walk five steps without getting into trouble. Next, he has a problem with his memory. 'Probably a bad case on amnesia' as Tally had once said. But has amnesia anything to do with speech or thinking? Nope. The students found his last reason after knowing him for a while longer: He's always getting lost.

'Ah! Bernanz! Can you show me the way to the Tropical Island?' Ripp asked, spotting Lily.

'It's Evans. E-V-A-N-S. Eh-vahns,' Lily said irritably. Much patient as she'd got, she never had any for her name.

'Yes, may I know the way to Hawaii?'

'You said Tropical Island just now,' James said.

'Where's the bathroom?' Ripp asked.

'Ahem. You said Hawaii,' James said again.

'Ah, how much is a ticket to Gordonsville? Not more than 50 galleons, I hope.'

'For your information, I'm not the right clerk. And the ticket to Gordonsville will cost you five hundred times a thousand. Is that satisfactory? WRONG NUMBER!' Sirius yelled.

'How'd you come to the Gryffindor common room anyway?' Remus asked.

'Is this Egypt?'

'How'd-'

'Oh, I don't want any new hairbrush, thanks. Uh, where's Rome?'

'I give up!' the three boys yelled in exasperation. Adele and Lily laughed silently.

'You're giving me apple tarts? That's very kind of you. I love apple tarts and had cherished them for many a long years!' Ripp said eagerly.

Lily transfigured something and handed it to Ripp. He took it and start biting into what he thought was apple tart. It turned out to be a cornish-pixie tart. The mischievous pixies ran out and started attacking him mercilessly.

'Peskipiksi Pesternomi!' Ripp yelled, brandishing his wand. Much as stupid and clumsy as he'd seem, he's a genius at Dark Arts, if he doesn't gets everyone confused about what he's trying to tell. 'Now, the apple tarts, please? Is this France?'

'Better give you some fire,' Adele whispered. She had managed to keep her powers as a Black mage into control and is able to send fire freely anytime at her command.

'I bet he's just looking for the DADA classroom,' Lily said dismissively. 'Here, go straight, turn left and open the first door.'

'What?!' Adele hissed in disbelieve. 'You're telling him to go to the first year girls' dorm?'

'Right.'

'You're nutters, Lily!'

'She isn't. It'll be nice to hear some screams,' James said.

'About time we get something played on him,' Sirius said.

'About time… one, two and three!' Remus counted.

A deafening 'Aaah!' was heard.

'So sorry, girls! Ow! Not the boot!' came Ripp's voice. And the man ran back down the stairs.

'Can I please know the way to Poppy-Pot-Trot?' Ripp asked again.

'What?'

'Dremily-Pipster-Pecker.'

'He wants to just find McGonagall,' Lily said.

'You can read his mind? You must be super, then! With a head like that, it's bound to be full of rubbish,' Adele said.

'Ah! Lily can read any mind, can't you?' Remus said.

'Right, I guess. Anyway, he'll have just one more chance to get my name right before I blast him to outer space with a telekinesis,' Lily gritted. Just then, the very familiar "beep beep!" sound came rushing in through the portrait hole. Minerva McGonagall's Emergency Rescue, known as MMER. It also stands for McGonagall Murdering ET Ripp, since she always had a look of murder each time the stupid beep rang and because Ripp looked like an ET if from his head's perspective.

'What exactly are you doing here? You're supposed to be tutoring the seventh years DADA right now!' McGonagall yelled, stomping into the common room.

'Ah! Gitarga!! Your students seem confuse when I ask them where-'

'Tropical Island and Hawaii is,' James cut.

'The bathroom..' Remus trailed.

'Hello! Who asked me how much is a ticket to Gordonsville? Huh? Huh?' Sirius waved his hands around.

'Egypt,' Adele added.

'And Rome. Seriously,' Lily concluded.

'I thought you said you'll be okay, going to your class alone,' McGonagall said, raising an eyebrow.

'What class?' Ripp said.

'Your class! Defense against dark arts! Timbeeer!' McGonagall yelled.

'Huh?'

'Forget it. I'll take you there. Myself,' McGonagall said in an exasperated tone. As the Marauders watched, McGonagall pulled Ripp off by the fish fin (which is hiding his ear). Outside, loud yells were heard, telling clearly that McGonagall is giving the Fat Lady a rowing for letting Ripp in.

'He said he's from Gryffindor! Forgot the password!' Fat Lady cried.

'What a load of rubbish! You let him in without a password and that's forbidden! DETENTION!' McGonagall yelled.

'Excuse me, I believe I'm not in this school, studying,' Fat Lady said.

The Marauders stared at each other for a short moment.

'He's wearing fish robes today? Yesterday was an octopus, the day before a seaweed, last week a sting ray… what is he coming to?' Adele said in disbelief.

'Maybe a seafood feast?' Sirius suggested hungrily.

'I hate seafood,' Remus said in a disgusted voice. 'Do you know how disgusting it is? Yuck!'

'Okay okay. Don't go spoil my liking for seafood then. We knew you saw how the fishes were fished and killed, so no need to repeat it,' James said.

'We're wasting time here. Come on Adele, let's go train your powers,' Lily sighed, going towards the portrait hole. Adele ran after her eagerly, tripping over various things on her way.

'Do you think she had Ripp's sickness?' James said after some time.

'Nah. People at this age trip a lot, but not Ripp's. We're normal. He's not,' Sirius said.

'Since when are you normal? I thought you were insane!' Remus said.

'I am not! Remus, if I were insane, how did I manage to live here and not go to the hospital?' Sirius said in a dignified voice.

'Ummm… good point there, Si,' James said after some thought. Sirius bowed in response.

'What powers did Lily say just now?' Sirius said after some time.

'She's a mage. Magician. Black mage. Black magician, remember?' James said in a whisper.

'Oh yeah!! So… what was her powers again?' Sirius said.

'Someone set fire to a tail on our first day. Probably her. Lily doesn't have that sorta power,' Remus said.

'Oh. How'd you know?' Sirius challenged.

'Lily will tell us if she learnt anything or found a new power. She didn't say a thing about that,' Remus pointed out.

'Oh. Right. Maybe I'm getting Ripp's forgetful sickness for staying too long with him.'

'Well, I can't be sure… knowing Lily, she'll do anything – well, not exactly all – to get equal. She tried speaking to animals in the woods last summer and when she can't seem to understand them, she had to use her Psychic powers to understand and talk properly,' James said.

'I think I'm really getting the forgetful sickness,' Sirius moaned. 'Is it contagious?'

'Nah, it isn't!' Remus assured.

'How're you so sure?'

'You asked me.'

'Oh, okay. James, is this thing contagious? Cause I think I just got it from Ripp…'

'Forget it, Si. It is NOT contagious. Else, we'll all have it,' James said.

'That's more like it.'

'Thank you.'

'You're welcomed.'

'Welcome.'

'Welcome.'

'Quit it, you two!' Remus laughed.

**

'Fire Pixies hit the Trixies,' Lily called out. The girls were standing before a mural painting behind the Infirmary of Fire Pixies and Trixies hitting and squabbling. The Fire Pixies were small and cladded in orange and red, and the Trixies (another type of pixie) were fat, round and very plump.

'What sort of password is that?' Adele said, entering the secluded room as the mural painting vanished out of sight without a trace.

'It's not my choice. Anyway, I guess those mobbles left us forever,' Lily said. When Adele came for her first visit, it was full of mobblewebs and mobbles, an ice-blue spider that looks like a cross of bird, cockroach, snail and spider. Adele was frightened to death when she saw the dark creatures scrawling about the dusty room.

'Good thing too. I don't want to meet them any longer,' Adele shivered. She had a fear for all sorts of dark creatures, but as the Marauders found out in their Care For Magical Creatures class (they dropped Muggle Studies), a genius to magical creatures. She could describe and spot a difference between magical and non-magical creatures with just one look and had a thing for animals, though they don't come after her like they do for Lily.

'Aw, they're not that bad!' Lily said. 'Oh look! Here's an extra!'

Adele shrieked loudly and quickly climbed up the table.

'Come down! I was just kidding!' Lily laughed. Adele shook her head, dreading to believe what Lily had said.

'Never! Look! My Yumi's scared, too!' Adele pointed to her pocket. True enough, a small hamster-looking thing was shivering inside.

'Castria, come down!' Lily called. Adele was just about to ask who the heck Castria is when her Yumi popped out and jumped straight to Lily. Lily cuddled it lovingly.

'My Yumi is… Castria?' Adele said.

'Not exactly, Adele. In case you hadn't notice, there's a group of Yumi in our dorm now,' Lily said. 'This is mine.'

'What?!'

'Serious. Castria is your Yumi's daughter!'

'B- but how?'

'See? This one has flower for it's mark,' Lily said, showing a small print that looks like a lily flower.

'T- then where's mine? It followed me!'

'Your Yumi's here,' Lily said, pulling out another Yumi with strawberry marks from Adele's pocket. 'Hullo Kiara!'

'Kiara?'

'Your Yumi's name. Kiara's giving Lily Castria, isn't she?' Lily cooed. The Yumi nodded happily as she scampered onto Adele's head.

'Kiara! No, no! Your food's eaten by Castria already! No! Hahaha!' Adele started laughing as Kiara searched all of her for food. 'Noooo! Haha! Stop!'

'Kiara, enough already. Adele has to practice now,' Lily whispered to the scampering creature. As if she understood what Lily said, she stopped and ran to a bowl of nuts to join Castria in the feast. Adele stared at her.

'You can talk to animals! Like James!' she exclaimed.

'Not exactly. I had to use my Psychic powers. James doesn't have to,' Lily winced. 'It's so unfair.'

'O… kay,' Adele said.

'Back to your practice. Today, you'll be completing this chapter after you can succeed in throwing fire out of water,' Lily said, holding up a book.

'Where did you get that from?' Adele asked, pulling the book. Black Magic And It's History by Selena B. Mage, the peeling black letters read.

'I hunted the school library,' Lily said dismissively. 'Shoot some fire through water. Last chapter to closing the fire section.'

'You're kidding! It'll be so hard!' Adele wailed.

'You're lucky this place is soundproof. C'mon, it wouldn't hurt that much, would it?'

'No, but…'

'Then give it a try! You can learn loads others after this! I can help you,' Lily urged. Adele started fighting with herself mentally, used the eenie-minnie-minny-mo style, pulled off a rose's petals (much to it's protest) and finally came to her answer after kicking herself many a times.

'Okay. I'll do it,' Adele said at last, covering herself with bruises. Lily healed her with some of her Psychic powers and the bruises disappeared.

'What's the big trouble? I just throw you into the water and you can conjure the fire in there and ta-da! You're finished!' Lily said.

'I can't swim! What if I drown? Suffocate in there?'

'Simple, I just make the tank disappear then.' Adele slapped herself on her forehead,

'Sometimes I just forget magic,' she muttered.

'Leave it, then. C'mon! Into the water!' Lily said, magicking a human-sized water tank or aquarium, whatever it is, for Adele. Adele didn't move.

'Look, if you don't want to go in, I will most definitely push you in, then. Surely you don't want that?'

'No…'

'Then would you rather go in ready than not ready and really drown? I won't magic it away then,' Lily threatened.

'…'

'Look Adele, every road always have a bump in them. There isn't a simple road where it's shortcut.'

'O- o- okay. I- I'll go now,' Adele gulped. She inched slowly to the tank in the middle of the room.

'So jump in.'

'No! Not jumping! Please!' Adele begged.

'Okay. Then go in!' Lily said. Adele was only an inch and she was shivering in the spot. To her, the tank seemed bigger than ever as the prospect of drowning loomed before her very eyes. Closing her eyes, she inched slowly into the water.

I bet she watched too much of "Jaws"… Lily said to herself.

'Sure, go on slowly. And if you managed, we'll see if we can see any other magic. If not, we'll just have to learn – ow!!! Hot hot hot!' Lily shrieked loudly as a ball of fire flew from the base of the tank and hit Lily. The redhead start shrieking loudly and ran all around, fire blazing on her robes. Adele grinned, surfacing from the water.

'Ha! I did it!' Adele said, jumping out of the water. She dried herself and Kiara ran to greet her owner. Lily was still running all around in shock and Adele, Kiara and Castria watched in amusement. Finally Lily overcome her shock.

'Accio!' she cried without even touching her wand.

'You're not holding your wand, idiot!' Adele laughed. But to amazement and surprise, the water tank she was in minutes ago gave a slight shake and yank itself out of the ground. It threw its contents over Lily, drenching the redhead.

'Thanks,' Lily said to the tank, drying herself with a simple charm. The now empty tank nodded and flew back to it's rooted place on the ground without another movement or sign that it has been out and about the room.

'It- it- it- it-'

'What?'

'It nodded!'

'And your point is?'

'Tanks don't nod, do they?'

'Well, this is number one, then.'

'And- and- and- and you performed magic without a wand!'

'No big deal…'

'What do you mean by that? That's the Summoning Charm and Drying Charm you performed! And it's not psychic!'

'Well, if I hadn't mentioned yet…'

'Mention what? You said nothing of this!'

'I had a telepathic connection with almost everything I own. My wand, is one of them.'

'WHAT?!'

'Now, no need to be so surprise, Adele. Whatever for?'

'The tank then? It nodded! All by itself! No magic could've done that!'

'No, no magic could. It wanted to nod, so I just made it move by itself. Look, it's dancing now,' Lily said, pointing at the tank. The water tank was doing a tap-dance along with Castria and Kiara, cladded smartly in coats, top hats and a walking stick. Adele stared.

'I- I can't believe it!'

'Well, it's real, so you have to. Else, just pretend it's a dream.'

'Oh, but I can't! This is what I'd always imagined! It's too good!'

'Then leave it there. Now, how about we try-'

Riiing!!! Kring a-ling!!!!! Kring a-ting!!!!! Ding!!!!! Dong!!!! Ring kring a-ling kring a-ting ding dong!

'What's that?' Adele said in fright. Hogwarts was so different from Gordonholp, which was very still. Hogwarts is always alive with all sorts of things; everything Gordonholp isn't. There are mischief-makers, pranks played, rivalries flying, duels challenged and so much more.

'What's what? Oh, you mean that,' Lily grinned.

'Huh?'

'That's what rings whenever someone's entering. Those Fire Pixies and Trixies are making all those noise,' Lily said. 'It's a "doorbell" I installed.'

'Muggle devices work here? They don't in Gordonholp,' Adele said, catching only the last sentence of Lily's fast talking.

'Course not! Muggle things never will work here. I made those Pixies and Trixies do that by using powder 25% shade rose pink,' Lily laughed.

'They have … percentage of shade?' Adele said faintly. Lily's powders of all sorts had had their effects shown the first week of school and most have horrible results with things. If all colors weren't enough yet… percentage of shade gives it an even larger variety of uses.

'Why not?'

'Hola Senorita Lily!' James greeted, bowing, as he entered.

'Hola!' Sirius and Remus greeted.

'Adios, Senora,' Adele replied. 'I'm truly offended that I am not greeted, though.'

'Then adios, Senorita,' Sirius said. The boys turned to talk to Lily about what to do with Rottie and Minnie.

'Hey, I was just kidding!' Adele yelled. 'Don't leave me out!'

'Poor ol' thing. Come on in,' Remus said.

'How's your lesson going? Heard Lily tutored you. Is she good? She wasn't when she tried to tell me everything. James ended up doing the job,' Sirius said.

'Lily's a great teacher!' Adele said frowning at Sirius.

'Probably it's cause you two are almost the same; Psychic and Black mage. They're almost the same, so it'll be easier for you two to understand what to do and all,' James explained.

'Oh well. Insult Lily once more and…' Adele threatened as she glared at the fireplace. It lit up with a flare and soon, a beautiful fire burn in it. Sirius gulped. This girl is almost like Lily. The temper is unmistakable. Only Lily doesn't get mad at the boys.

'Forget it, Adele. He's always this way,' Lily said soothingly, smiling widely at Sirius. The smile plainly said now-do-you-dare-mess-with-the-two-of-us-Sirius?-hah!-you'll-definitely-lose.

'Ulp! Okay, I get your message!' Sirius said nervously. If he is to take up a Psychic witch and a Black with, he's definitely going down the drain. He turned to James. 'Ask your girlfriend to stop threatening me.'

James whacked him hard.

'One more word, Sirius, I'm warning you,' James said.

'Oh. That again? Sirius Black, you're getting from meee!!' Lily cried, narrowing her eyes. For a wild moment, Sirius was really afraid that Lily would kill him right there and then with her psychic, but it wasn't any psychic. No, it was black magic. Huge orange flames shot out and chased Sirius.

'What the- Lily! You're also a Black Mage?' Remus called over Sirius' howls. Adele turned to Lily in shock.

'Me? A mage? Never!' Lily said, defending herself.

'B- but that?' Adele stuttered. Kiara popped her head out and started squeaking eagerly as did Castria.

'WHAT?! Two Yumi??' James cried in shock. He listened hard to what they're saying.

'What are they saying, James?' Remus asked. Sirius was pouring water from the kettle onto himself and soon yelled loudly about being scorched by the hot water.

'They said that Lily's using black magic, not by the means of a mage, though. What did that mean?' James said quizzically.

'Castria! Why did you tell?' Lily scolded the baby Yumi. Castria cowered a little, but licked Lily playfully. Needless to say, the girl forgave the Yumi.

'Castria? Lily, what's all this?' James said.

'Castria's Kiara's baby. And as for the fire, it's not psychic. No psychic could do that,' Lily said wistfully.

'Then how?'

Lily sighed and drew a book from the bookcase. Black Magic For Psychics.

'I've been practicing this for long, and since Psychics and Black Mages were very rare – extinct, in fact – this book's more than a hundred years old,' Lily said, holding the book, shiny and green, to them. Everyone looked at it and Sirius (who'd recovered), opened the book.

'Psychics and Black Mages are same in many different ways of their own. They may seem to have the same kind of power, but do not. Psychic focuses more on telepathic things and things muggles call ESP. A Psychic can never have powers a Black Mage does.

'Psychic has more advantage than Black mage, in many ways, too. For one, they can learn Black Magic through their powers. For another, a Psychic's IQ is much higher than an ordinary witch, wizard, warlock or any magical folk's.

'This book will be a guidance to all Psychic who are interested in learning the Black Magic and acquire skills of a Mage's.

'What is this all about?' Sirius said after reading the introduction.

'Where'd you get this?' Adele asked, peering the book.

'I found it hidden under my bedroom floor in Bluebells' Cup. Mind you, I fell through five traps before getting it,' Lily smiled.

'You mean you'd been learning ever since the holidays?' Remus said.

'Bingo.'

'What's your level now then? Like mine?' Adele said eagerly.

'Yep. Exactly like yours. I wanted to tell you later, but hadn't the chance.'

'Why did you learn this for? Isn't Psychic alone enough?' James said.

'I don't know. For fun, I suppose.'

'She just wants to kill the spare energy,' Remus whispered to Adele.

'I heard it!' Lily called.

'So sorry!' Remus said. 'But it's true, isn't it?'

'Ditto. Anyway, I wouldn't care anyway. I did want to kill the spare time and energy,' Lily said.

'Hey! Maybe we can burn Snape some time!' Sirius said eagerly.

'For all you know, she'll get us first,' James said.

'What makes you think that? My camera's more important!' Remus argued.

'Uh, I think you'd better keep quiet for now. Even if I don't burn you, Lily's swelling,' Adele warned. In a matter of seconds, three boys howled loudly after their hats were scorched to ashes for saying sarcastic things about Lily.

'C'mon Adele. I've got to show you this book,' Lily said, pulling Adele to the bookcase as though nothing had ever happened.

**

Gathering in their secret room – Marauder's Hideout – the five Marauders did their own work. The boys mended their hats. Lily was busy mumbling and meditating and talking to no one in particular in her corner. Adele was doing – wait. Trying – to do her Transfiguration homework, but was unsuccessful.

'Argh! Someone, anyone, somebody… help!' Adele cried, furiously slamming her quill and parchment onto the wall. The wall gave a loud cry.

'With what?' Sirius said, ignoring the wall's cry and trying to restore his hat but failed since he forgot the charm.

'Transfiguration. Or are all of you hopeless at it like me?'

'Hopeless? Girl, get your head back into order! We're genius!' James cried.

'Genius at what? Killing yourself? Hah!'

'At Transfiguration. What else are we genius at in this conversation?'

'Yep, kick that genius part off and help her,' Lily said, and turned to mumble to herself again.

'You're best. Go on. Lily'll mend your hat for you,' Remus said, winking at Lily. Lily bit her lip to strain herself from casting a spell or shooting daggers at him. She did, however, flare up.

'Remus, if I couldn't trust you with that stupid thing, you'd better get the tap-dancing shoes out, cause I'll be sure to make you tap-dance as a werewolf,' Lily threatened.

'Okay, okay. I get the message,' Remus said, backing off.

'speaking of werewolf, we have to get that potion brewing fast,' James said. 'Sirius?'

'I get it, I get it. I'll do it, cause if I don't, you'll make me. Torturing is worst than volunteering,' Sirius said intelligently.

'Smart. I'll get those ingredients. A summoning charm would do the trick,' Lily said.

'I have the list,' James said.

'I- I think I'll help Lily then,' Remus said queasily. He felt like a rubber duck in a middle of the sea. In other words, lost.

'What are you all talking about?' Adele demanded.

'Well, y'know Re's a werewolf, right?' Sirius said.

'Right.'

'And werewolves aren't a harm to animals, right?'

'Right…'

'And so we're planning to-' Adele needn't further information. Her eyes went wide as she finally realized what they were meaning.

'You don't mean animagi??? But- but it couldn't be! We're only fourteen! And- and you're breaking the law! Becoming an illegal animagi! The fine! The penalty! A sentence to Azkaban!!' Adele cried. She trailed off with all sorts of horrid accidents that happened and the whole description of penalty given, including the very detailed amount of fine.

'Adele, relax! We're smart! We have a Potions Master, a Transfiguration Genius, a Charms Student and a DADA Expert here! Nothing could go wrong!' Lily said.

'Nothing? Loads could go wrong! You're only fourteen!' Adele shrieked.

'Ssh! Lower the volume! And we're talking about prized pupils here,' Sirius reminded.

'Besides, it's not only us four,' James said.

'What? Who else?'

'Promise not to tell?'

'Cross my heart and hope to die.'

'Not telling.'

'Aih!?'

'You'll freak out,' Lily said.

'So, best is leave you out of it,' Remus grinned.

'Out, out, out!' Sirius echoed.

'Mean, mean, mean!' Adele said in return.

'Too bad, bad, bad!' Lily sang.

'Har, har, har!' James continued.

'Enough, 'nough, 'nough!' Remus said. 'We had too much, much, much!'

'How come you have two?' Sirius said with a pout.

'Yea, unfair!' James said.

'Unfair, unfair~' Lily and Adele sang together. The looked at each other and burst out laughing.

'What? What's the joke? Anyway, I think we'd better get everything ready. I heard it takes at least seven months to brew that thing and we still have to find the ingredients! Most have to be plucked at certain times and this isn't gonna be easy,' James said, pulling a long list from his pocket.

'You had it done already? Good,' Lily said, taking her wand out. 'Read out.'

'Um, mandragora leaves, phoenix feather, rice wine? Yep. An elephant's feather, owl hairball, dapple spinnerets, rat intestines, lizard poo…'

'Gross! Must we really drink that potion?' Sirius said in disgust.

'If you don't wanna be the first teenagers to break to high law, no,' James said.

'Yuck… even the sound of it is freaking me out,' Remus said, pretending to throw up.

'Elephant feather? When do elephants grow feathers?' Lily said in astonishment.

'How am I suppose to know? This was taken from a book, written in year 1273!' James said, pushing the parchment into Lily's hands. The redhead read everything slowly and started thinking pensively to herself. To understand this "elephant feathers" and "owl hairball" and the other weird things (Whenever did they exist?), they need to ask help from droning Binns. And asking Binns is more like luring yourself to sleep.

'I can help here,' Adele said, pointing at the rice wine and mandragora leaves.

'What? How?'

'I have this. Rice wine are just "sake" so I'll bet my dad has it in his cellar. Mom grows mandragora and wouldn't mind me taking the leaves.'

'Good, you can help us then,' Sirius said thankfully.

'Only on one condition.'

'What?'

'I wanna be one, too.'

'Be what?' Remus asked.

'An animagi.'

'You said something about it being wrong…'

'Scratch that! I don't wanna miss the fun!'

'Aaah… little Adele, you're beginning to see the fact of life,' Lily said, accenting her voice a little.

'Stop teasing me! So, can I be one?' Adele asked hopefully.

'Well… now that you'd said…' Sirius said, hanging his sentence. Lily took the oppurtunity to send a quick message to allof them (minus Adele) through the mind.

'So how?' Adele asked hopefully after two seconds.

'No,' Remus concluded.

'What?!'

'No. We think we'll try and find these things out first before asking for help,' James said. Adele's face fell.

'Don't look so down! If we really can't find what it is, we'll ask,' Lily said.

'Oh well, it's okay. Someday, I'll be a registered animagus then, when I get older,' Adele said in a disappointed voice.

'Good. Now we'll have to head off to Madam Pince's library,' James winced. 'She'll be so glad that she'll award us a kick.'

'She'll probably have our names engraved on her grave, though. It'll be an honor,' Sirius said comfortingly.

'Yeah, I can picture. Madam Roster Pincer Pince, died after dealing with Lily Evans, James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin,' Lily laughed.

'See ya Adele!' Remus bid and they sprinted out of the room, leaving their fifth companion to wrestle with her Transfiguration essay.

AN: Aha!! I finally decided to not make Adele an animagus J aren't I a genius? *avoids the vegetables* ow! I know I planned to make her one first but I changed my mind now. And there's NOTHING any of you could do about it!! Yep! Anywayz, I'd like to apologize that this has taken some time [first thing to blame: school… exams…] and my limited time on the computer's making things harder. And I'm still doing those dratted exams… stupid, stupid exams! Why did they exist? Anywayz, review, please!!!