Two weeks later, at breakfast, with The Marauders and the girls at different tables, the mail arrived. A tawny owl dropped a letter in front of lily.

Dear Lily

Hi, how are you? The reason for this letter is, Petunia's getting married to Vernon Dursley.  The wedding's this weekend. I know it's short notice, but Petunia said she'd write to you, and we discovered she never did. You're to go to Professor Dumbledore's office after breakfast, and Floo home. By the way, we got our fireplace connected as an early Christmas present.

Lots of Love,

Mum and Dad. XXOO

Lily laughed out loud. 'What is it?' asked Tinkerbelle.

'Petunia's getting married!' Lily replied.

'Somebody actually wanted to marry her? Let me see!' said Summer, and she grabbed the letter. 'Lily, you got Floo, that's fantastic!'

'Yeah, I better go pack.' said Lily.

'Don't be stupid, everything you need will be there.' said Tinkerbelle. 'And no studying, you've been doing it harder than we have! Just relax, have fun.'

'Fun? With Petunia?'

'Screw her! Does she still bear an amazing resemblance to a horse?'

'Hey, I like horses!' protested Summer. 'They're almost like unicorns!'

They spent the rest of breakfast making fun of Petunia, then Lily went up to Professor Dumbledore's office, and went home.

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That evening, Lily and her parents were sitting in the living room talking, while Petunia tried on her wedding dress, which had just arrived.

A figure suddenly appeared in the fire, and stepped out, brushing soot off their body.

'James, what are you doing here?' asked Lily, annoyed. Petunia had put her in a bad mood.

'Hi to you too.' said James, smiling.

'Answer the question.'

'Well, my dear Tigerlily, I was sitting in History of Magic this afternoon when I noticed you weren't there. So, being the kind, caring person I am (Lily rolled her eyes) I asked your friends, who told me you'd gone home for the weekend for your sisters wedding. Then, I thought you might need a date to the wedding. So I asked Dumbledore, and now I'm here.'

'Lily? Do you know this man?' asked her mother.

'Yes. This is James Potter, my friend, and this is my mother Rose, and my father Chris.'

'Pleasure to meet you.' said James, used to dealing with adults. 'I apologise for bursting in on you like this.'

'Don't be silly.' said Rose. 'Of course Lily needs a date, I can't believe I didn't realise it.'

James smiled again. Lily glared at her mother, then at James.

'MUM!' came a voice from the stairs, and Petunia came in, wearing her wedding dress. She saw James. 'Who's that?'

'That's James, her friend from school, and her date to the wedding.'

'What? It's bad enough to have one freak at the wedding!'

'Anti-magic.' Lily whispered to James.

'They're not freaks.' snapped her father. 'Now, what is the problem?'

'My dress is cream.' she said sulkily. 'I wanted white.'

'Well, there's nothing we can do about it now! The wedding's on Sunday.' said Rose.

'I WANT WHITE!' screamed Petunia.

'Er…excuse me?' said James. 'I could help…'

'You could?' asked Rose, looking hopeful at the chance of avoiding a tantrum. 'By all means…'

James took out his wand, pointed it at Petunia, who flinched, and muttered something. The dress became white. Petunia glared at everyone, then left.

Lily was still looking annoyed at him. He took a quill out of his pocket, tapped it with his wand, and transfigured it into a bunch of lilies, which he presented to her.

'Come on Tigerlily, don't be mad.' She took them, and looked a little less annoyed. He got out his wand, and gave her a crown of lilies on her head, strappy white heels, and a sparkling white dress robe, with hints of green streaks the colour of her eyes running through it. 'See, now you look even more beautiful.'

'James, my sister's friends will be here soon, I have to wear muggle clothing.'

He waved the wand again, and the dress robe turned into a strapless muggle dress of the same soft material, with the bottom cut diagonally so it went from the floor to halfway up her thigh.

'Lily! It's beautiful!' Rose exclaimed. 'You have to wear that to the wedding! James, you're a genius! What would we do without you! I'm so glad you came. You'll have to sleep on the couch in Lily's room, Pet's friend is staying in the guest room.'

'That's ok.' he said 'If Tigerlily doesn't mind?' He raised an eyebrow at her questioningly.

'I guess I'll survive.' she said. 'But I need to get changed in it now.'

'Of course.' said her father. 'I want to get to know this young man better. Please, sit down.'

James sat down in an armchair, while Lily went up to change. She found the clothes she had been wearing in her closet, and smiled to herself.

Five minutes later, she came back down, and James was explaining the wizard political system, which she'd never understood.

'James? Can I talk to you in my room for a second?' Lily asked.

'Sure.' He got up, and followed her to her room. It was painted light blue, and there was a bed, a couch, bookcases, a desk, and millions of soft toys placed anywhere there was space. He chucked some of the couch, and lay down. She sat on her bed.

'Listen, um, I'm sorry about before. Petunia just gets on my nerves.'

'That's ok. At least your parents like me now.' he looked around. 'So do you think you have enough books, and soft toys?'

'Nope.'

He spotted a white stag on one of the bookshelves. 'Hey look, a mini me.'

'You're white?'

'Yep. White stags are rare, I know. Sirius's is rare too. He's a Grim.'

'Lucky. Do you know how much he could terrify Trelawney?'

He laughed. 'We never thought of that one. You shouldn't think about breaking rules, young lady.'

'Bit hypocritical, don't you think?'

He frowned. 'Remember on the train, when you three found out about us, I still have no idea how, and Summer said that to tell would be hypocritical. What did that mean?'

'I'm surprised you never figured it out.'

'Hey, you're the one in Ravenclaw. I'm just a Gryffindor.'

'True. I can't tell you, but if I accidentally let a few clues slip and you happened to figure it out, I could hardly be blamed, now could I?'

'Of course not.'

'Ok, clue number 1. Summer's mind went straight to animagi, even though, considering the information we had, that was one of the more unlikely possibilities.'

'I need more.'

'My nickname has an animal in it.'

'I'm thinking.'

'You can't possibly be that stupid.'

'Sorry. Unless - no, that's impossible.'

'What?'

'You're all animagi.'

'But slow, aren't we?'

'Are you a tiger?'

'A white one, actually. I didn't believe it at first, what with my hair, but hey.'

'And Summer and the Fairy?'

'Tinkerbelle's this cute little brown squirrel, and Summer's a unicorn.'

'I've never heard of an animagi being a unicorn before.'

'I've never heard of an animagi being a Grim before.'

'Life and Death.'

'It's quite freaky really. Like this movie I watched on TV today.'

'TV?'

'You've never heard of TV?' James shook his head. Lily ran over to him and hugged him. 'Oh you poor deprived baby! Come on, It's the best!' She dragged him excitedly down the stairs, into the living room.

She picked up the remote, and turned on the TV, to an episode of the Bold and the Beautiful.

'This is TV.' she announced. He walked cautiously up to it, and tapped the screen with his finger.

'They're trapped in there. That's cruel. You shouldn't trap people in a box.' he said, completely serious.

Lily burst out laughing. 'They're not trapped, you idiot. They're acting. Someone's filming them, making a copy of what they're doing. Then they put it on here, and people watch it.'

'I don't understand.'

'I take it you've never been to a cinema either?'

'Cinema?'

'That's it! It's Friday night, we are going down there, and you are experiencing one of the greatest muggle inventions.' She turned off the TV. 'Come on, we've got to find Mum.  Wait-change your clothes will you? You're still in Hogwarts uniform.'

'Oh right.' he waved his wand while muttering something, and was now dressed in cargo pants and a t-shirt. He followed her into the kitchen, when Rose, Petunia and Petunia's friend was sitting.

'Hey Mum, me and James are going to the movies ok?'

'James and I sweetie, and yes you may go, but don't come home to late? Do you have enough money?'

'Yeah. Bye.'

'Goodbye dear.'

Lily and James walked back into the living room. Lily picked up the phone and started to order a taxi. James looked really confused. She hung up, and noticed his expression.

'What?'

'Why were you talking to a machine? What's the point?'

;I'll explain later. Just, let me do everything, try not to stare, act like everything's normal, you've seen it all before, ok?'

'I guess so…'

'Good. C'mon, the taxi's here.' They went outside, and sat in the taxi. To Lily's great relief, James had been in a car before. The driver started talking about how badly Australia had just thrashed England at cricket.

James just agreed with everything the man said, and made a mental note to ask Lily what cricket was. He also decided he should've taken muggle studies.

When they got there, Lily paid the guy, and they went into the cinema, which was really crowded.

'What do you want to see?' asked Lily.

'What do you mean? See?'

'Yeah, like they tell a story.'

'Oh. I have no idea. Tell me about them.'

'Just pick. there's horror, romance, comedy action, drama, whatever.'

'Horror.'

'Typical.' She bought the tickets, and they walked into the theatre, and sat down, after buying popcorn and coke.

'So this is like a big TV?' James asked, after seeing the big screen.

'Yeah. You'll like it.'

'You're completely certain of that?'

'Yep.'

The lights turned off, and the movie started playing.