"Wear this!" exclaimed the gypsie tossing them some clothes which were lined with expensive jewels and ornate looking amulets that went with them.

"Where'd you get these?" Exclaimed Liza unbelievingly.

"Around," replied the gypsie with a shrug.

"This is illegal." James kept chanting. "What have I gotten myself into? We could be caught!"

"Don't back out on me!" Liza scolded. She added, "Hey! My dress doesn't have fabric over the stomach area!"

The gypsie shrugged, "It's what they wear."

"What the dancers and slaves wear, pervert!"

"It looks India-like enough, it should pass! And plus... they wouldn't even suspect you wearing that." He smirked.

James added, "It looks better then what I have to wear! I'll look like someone out of Aladin!" Liza looked at him puzzled. He shrugged. "Anyway, I'm not wearing this."

"I need more of a cover up!" She exclaimed.

"Fine! Screw the India idea!" James said, throwing the clothes in the dirt.

"It's the day of the ball!" She shouted in disbelief.

"I. Give. Up!" He said, pronouncing each word.

"NO! Please, You know as much as I do I've always wanted to go a royal ball!"

"No, no! I have only known you for a week, I have no recolition of who, or what you are, I know this is just some bizarre dream!" James began to walk away.

"Ok! Ok, please don't go! I know you don't know me, and I frankly don't know what's going on either, but could you please just do this one favor for me? Please?"

James thought about it. Damn Liza's manipulating skills. "Ok." He gave in, "But I want to pick my own clothes."

"Thank you! Thank you!" Liza said, a big smile appearing on her face. "You're the best."

"I know."

"But remember, we need to go incognito. That mean we'll have to do something to your hair, and your glasses! You can't wear them..."



It was around nine o'clock in the morning and Remus was lending Sirius some of his clothes so he could go to the ball also.

"These are my best set of ball-room clothes Sirius!" Remus said threateningly.

"Don't worry! They are in MY hands, they're perfectly safe."

"Somehow I doubt that."



"There's a long time till the ball, why give me this now?" Sirius said.

"Because I need to teach you manners."

"I have manners!" Exclaimed Sirius dejectedly.

"Yeah sure, whatever you say."



"Tree sap?!? You are NOT putting tree sap in my hair!" James exclaimed, moving away from the decsending hand that was Liza's.

"James, just for one night! You promised!"

"What's wrong with my hair?!?"

"Someone will recognize you!"

"FINE!" He exclaimed as Liza started to spread the tree sap all in his hair, making a face while doing so. "That's so gross." He whined.

"Gross... but it works."

It was now three hours to the ball and Liza and James had told the gypsies 'Thanks' and given them their part of the deal, now they were back in their barn... spreading tree sap in James's hair as he whined.

"See!" She exclaimed as she finished, "Who would recognize you?"

"I can't see! Where's my glasses?"

"You can't wear them, remember? You. Can't. Be. Recognized."

"So you keep telling me."

"Come on, let's go see if Sirius's dad has something for you to wear on your eyes." Liza prompted.

"Like contacts?" James pondered out loud.

"Huh?"

"Never mind."



"Sirius! You don't know how to dance?!?"

"Well... erm... no. Is that a problem?"

"Oh my god."

"Sirius, You home?" Liza shouted from somewhere outside.

Remus got the door. "Thank god your hear, Sirius doesn't know how to dance!"

Liza smiled and walked over to him.

"Hey James!" Remus exclaimed to James.

"Sup Remus?"

"What?"

"Never mind." James muttered. 'No more slang.' He scolded himself.

"I didn't know you couldn't dance." Liza said while she started to teach Sirius how to dance.

'That's weird, Sirius is always the life of the party at home.' James thought.

"Oh, James needs to see your dad for his glasses." Liza said, remembering.

"He's in the back," He jerked his head to the door behind him.

"Come on." Remus muttered, ushering James away.

*Knock. Knock.* Mr. Black, blacksmith and inventor, opened the door. "Boys! Welcome, come in." He exclaimed. "What can I help you with?"



"Er... Hi sir, I need some... invisible eye wear." James said skeptically.

To his and Remus's surprise, Mr. Black smiled a bright, sudden, and sort of scary smile. "Just what I've been looking for!" He exclaimed. "You could try these out for me, all I need is a general range of your prescription."

"Er... Bad?" James sais uneasily. Then added, "Look sir, I don't want to be scared for life on behalf of being your quinie pig, so if there's a possibility that these thing are hazardous...-"

"Don't fret dear boy! They are perfectly safe, here try them on." He handed him what looked like to be normally perfect contact lenses, but James knew that that sort of technology did not exist yet.

He put them in and surprisingly, it worked!

"There, now your all set."



Soon, it was time to go and James found himself being stuffed into a carraige along with Liza and the gypsie was driving coincidently.

Liza was smiling. They were both dressed in expensive clothing. James was looked like a prince out of one of those fair tale stories. Not really Aladin though. In fact, he didn't look like he was from India. Maybe no one would notice? Oh well, there was a back-up. Thankfully, from some inside sources, not telling you who, the Irish parliament wasn't sending any representatives, and the English government didn't know about it.

"We're almost there." Liza hopped up and down in her seat. Unlike James, she had decided to go for the India-like look. Her outfit consisted of lots of vails and a belly-less dress. She had her long black hair up with some curled ones hanging down on her shoulders. Not to mention the heavy reddish-black lipstick she had to wear and some shiny face-makeup and eye shadow. There was a vail in her hair too so it framed her face perfectly. Also, the jewel in the middle of her eyes thing going on.

They were changed people. Not to be noticed by ANYTHING or ANYONE.

James too looked out the window now. The castle was HUGE. But Hogwarts was bigger. James noted this. It was elegant, like something out of a dream or a story book.

The carraige stopped and the gypsie opened the door and winked at them before mock-bowing and riding away.

Liza grabbed onto James's outstretch arm and smiled a large happy smile that made James smile too. "Let's get this over with." James muttered, but really he was just as excited as Liza.

They were let in at the door by a security guard. They entered and James was only half impressed. Hogwarts was much better. They were met by talking people, all with nice long and lovely dresses on.

They immediately spotted Remus and Sirius. They walked over to them and Remus almost died when he saw Liza.



"Sirius! That's enough food, you'll give us away!" Remus hissed at him as he nodded to passing courteurs.

"Hungry." Sirius whined quietly.

"Ssh." Remus said. "We have to fing Liza and James, they should be here by know." Remus said, looking around.

Sirius, how had stopped eating, was looking over Remus's shoulder with his mouth wide open. He pointed.

Remus turned around and his mouth opened in surprise also. "Is that... Liza?" he asked to no one imparticular.

They two made their way over to Remus and Sirius.

"Hey." Liza said smiling. "What?" She saw them staring.

James rolled his eyes and started to look for Lily and Snape, who would probably be trailing her.

"You... You look..."

"Gorgeous."

"Awesome."

"Different."

"Weird." James put in. Liza smacked him and he mouthed 'Ow' before walking off.

"So who would like to dance with me first?" Liza asked.

"I will." Remus said before Sirius could open his mouth. Liza smiled and took his hand while Sirius quickly got over it and started to look for a dance partner.



Meanwhile, Lily was trying to get away from Snape who was trying to dance. He was a horrible dancer. Luckily, someone came to her rescue, a tall dark and extremely handsome someone.

"Excuse me? Can I cut in?" A voice inquired from behind Snape. Snape sneered, but to be polite, he let the intruder cut in. He glared as he walked away.

"Er... hi..." Lily said, a tad uncomfortable in this stranger's arms. "Thanks." She said uncertainly.

"No problem." he smiled "it looks like you wanted to get away from him anyway."

"You, my friend, must be very observative." She smiled appreciatively. "But I must say, this is a step up, he couldn't dance at all."

James smirked on behalf of himself. "You shouldn't say that about your future husband."

Lily looked up at him startled and kind of angry, "How did you know about that?"

"I have my ways." He whispered mysteriously into her ear. That shut her up. They just danced throughout the song. When it ended however, Lily was so caught up in the mystery of this person, she had forgotten to get a name! But as soon as the song stopped, he was already retreating to the heavenly place he came from.

She would have gone looking for her now, if it wasn't for her father who stood up and beckoned her and Snape up to him. She groaned, this night wasn't going very good.

So there she stood, with Snape and her father inbetween them. You could see by the disgusted look on her face, she was not happy to be there.

Everyone decided to look past that and clapped appreciatively as the king called for silence.

"I want to thank everyone who came here tonight." he began. "Tonight, I have the pleasure to announce that my daughter," He put his arm around Lily, "Has been asked by the prince of Spain," He motioned to Snape, who was smirking, "to marry him and for England to be joined with Spain... and it's trade industry." The people started to clap politely.

James could see Lily's face. It was stuck in a frown. He felt a little pang of guilt and jealousy.