A/N- To my reviewers THANKS! It is great to have feedback. Sal, this will definitely have more Ron/Hermione jealousy. Damia, I will try to do as much as I can before Saturday. After that it might be entirely moot. I'll just have to read and see.

*Just in case anyone is crazy. . . I definitely don't own anything except Tamryn.*

They followed Tamryn up to the fourth floor to a picture of a ballerina who was practicing pirouettes. "Lizard Eggs," said Tamryn, and the picture swung open revealing a room similar to the Gryffindor common room, only smaller. It had a nice warm fire in the fireplace and comfy chairs and sofas for curling up in. They all settled in and Harry and Hermione filled Tamryn in on their fellow students and professors. She couldn't believe that Snape was a professor. "Who would've guessed they'd put SNAPE in charge of educating CHILDREN," she said.

Finally, Harry asked the question that had been haunting him all night. "So, you knew my parents then?" he said.

"Yes," said Tamryn. "Everyone at Hogwart's knew Lily Evans and James Potter. I became friends with them mainly because they were my fellow Gryffindors. I saw them in the Common Room at night or during parties celebrating Quidditch victories. James was a notorious prankster. All the Marauders were. He and Lily were arch enemies."

"Arch enemies?" asked Harry. This was more insight into his parents than he'd gotten from anyone, even Sirius, though Sirius had had too much on his mind since their reunion to be able to tell him such stories.

"Yes, they were always arguing about some silly thing. Lily was often the target of James' pranks. She was quite a prankster herself, though she only pulled them on James. However, she was friends with the other Marauders. Especially Sirius. She dated him first. I think that is what finally drove James over the edge."

"What do you mean, 'over the edge'?" asked Hermione.

"Well, most of the students in Gryffindor weren't fooled by Lily and James' supposed hatred for one another. I always knew that it was only a matter of time before they realized they were meant for each other. I think deep down James knew that too. So when she started dating Sirius, James was surprised and very jealous. He was torn, though, because he'd never told anyone about how he felt and Sirius was his best friend. So instead of saying anything to either of them, he just became very moody and short tempered. This led to an unwise decision on his part. He played a prank on Severus Snape that nearly cost Snape his life."

"We heard about that when we were first years. Dumbledore told me that Dad changed his mind in the end and saved Snape's life," said Harry.

"That he did. He realized that as much as he hated Snape, he didn't really want him dead. After that he finally admitted to himself that he was in love with Lily. He announced this to me after a night of insomnia. I wasn't exactly shocked. We'd been spending a lot of time together since Lily and Sirius had started dating. We were both upset about it but neither of us was truthful about why. He claimed that it 'broke up the group dynamic of the Marauders' or some such nonsense. I agreed with him because I enjoyed having someone to vent my frustration with and because I didn't want to be the one to have to tell James that he was in love with her."

"So why were you so upset about it?" asked Ron, who seemed to have recovered from his earlier shock.

"Because she was in love with Sirius," said Hermione.

"Very good Hermione. I WAS in love with Sirius, though I never quite got the courage to tell him so. Then we were out of school, working and trying to be 'grownups,' and time kept slipping by. I never got over Sirius, but I kept thinking one day he would wake up and realize I was the one for him. Then he was in Azkaban and out of my reach. I have always regretted being such a coward. I thought maybe if I had followed my heart things might have turned out differently."

"You know it was really Peter Pettigrew who killed all those people and betrayed my parents, don't you?" asked Harry.

"I thought that Peter must have betrayed your parents," Tamryn said. "I always knew that Sirius was innocent. I thought maybe he killed Peter out of revenge. I wouldn't have blamed him one bit."

"So Sirius dated my Mum. . . I wonder why he never told me?" said Harry.

"Bit of a delicate subject Harry," said Ron.

"After the Snape incident, when James finally admitted he loved Lily, I told him he needed to tell her. He said I needed to tell Sirius. I guess I was as obvious to him as he was to me. Neither of us was willing to take that step. We were both scared and neither of us wanted to pursue Sirius and Lily while they were so happy together."

"So how did Lily and James get together then?" asked Hermione.

"Well, one day Lily and Sirius broke up. There was no announcement or anything. We just began noticing that they weren't spending all their time together anymore. When we asked them about it all they would say was that it didn't work out. A few weeks later Lily and James got into a huge argument at dinner about Quidditch brooms of all things. James made some remark about Muggles not knowing good brooms and immediately knew that he'd gone too far. The whole Gryffindor table fell silent and the look of terror on his face was PRICELESS. Lily picked up a plate of treacle pudding and flung it at James. He ducked and the pudding hit a Ravenclaw girl in the face. Suddenly food was flying everywhere. Before the staff could restore order most of the students were covered in food and Lucius Malfoy had somehow gotten a turkey stuck on his head. Lily and James had disappeared without anyone noticing. They showed up in the Gryffindor Common Room a few hours later still covered with food, and holding hands. They had silly grins on their faces and we greeted them with a round of applause. They bowed and thanked us and then they went to clean up. After that they were inseparable."

"Harry, Ron it's after midnight. We'd better get back to our rooms so we don't get detention," said Hermione.

"Hermione! Who cares about bloody detention? I want to hear more about Harry's parents and Sirius," said Ron.

"She's right Ron," said Tamryn. "I have kept you up way past your bedtime. I promise I will continue the stories tomorrow. Off to bed now."