A shy, red-haired girl sat quietly reading a copy of 'Truly Tricky Transfigurations' by Trepan Tossledmore, in an empty compartment on the Hogwarts express. It wasn't unusual to see this girl by herself. Especially when she was reading. But she was quite beautiful and her emerald green eyes made her look like the perfect little Irish Lass. Her name was Lily Rose Evans. She, like all the others on the train, were headed to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For Lily Evans and her friends were all witches or wizards with very mixed backgrounds. Lily looked up from her book as the compartment door slid open, and there stood 4 guys, one with very untidy dark hair and sapphire blue eyes. This one was none other then James Potter, one of the most popular students at the school. Next to him was a boy to be about the same look, except his hair was tidy, and fit him perfectly, but his light gray eyes stood out more then anything. This boy was James' best friend Sirius Black. Next to Sirius, but also slightly behind him was a boy slightly taller then the two, with sandy colored hair and very light blue-green eyes, this was none other then the very elusive Remus Lupin. Behind Remus, and barely visible was Peter Pettigrew, a short mousy looking boy, slightly plump with blondish-brown hair and brown eyes. Nothing seemed to be different about him. He looked and seemed very plain. These four boys however were known throughout the school as the Marauders. James, Sirius, and Remus were never seen with out each other. Peter however wasn't always with them, but today he was. Lily smiled to them. "To what do I owe the pleasure of the Marauders company?" Lily said smiling. "Oh nothing Lily, we just wanted to see if you changed at all. From the looks of the book in your hand you haven't. Which mind you is a shame. You need to loosen up and stop reading so much." James said with a smirk. "For your information James Potter, I enjoy reading. How do you think I became a prefect? And now I am Head girl, and it's only our 6th year." "Does this mean that Lily, our bestest girl friend will try to help keep us from getting detentions?" Sirius asked with a puppy dogface. "Sirius wipe your true face off... It's not working on me. Go back to your masked face. And no this doesn't meant that I'm going to keep you out of detentions." Sirius gave Lily an odd look, and the other three boys started laughing out loud at what Lily said to Sirius. "Why Lily, you didn't think that way the two nights you spent in my room." Sirius said with an evil smirk. James stared hard at Lily with a shocked look. It was well known that James Potter practically was head over heals for Lily, but she seemingly didn't return his feelings. It seemed that she was more interested in Sirius and Remus then him. "James knock the face off. Nothing happened between Sirius and myself. He made his house-elves scare me the two nights I had to stay over there. So I kicked him out of his bed for two nights, and made him sleep on his own floor as payback." "Oh." James still didn't like the idea of Lily being on Sirius' bed, even though Sirius wasn't in it as well.