Hey, Dudes! it's me again(duh) with another chapter. today we get to meet peter!!!! little barf head. I hate him.

Chapter 3
Lily sat next to Tonya and Remus in Transfiguration, watching Professor Dumbledore poke and prod the chair he had just transfigured into a frog. James sat right behind her, with Sirius next to him, and Lyssa next to Tonya. On Remus's other side sat Priscilla Patil, who was practically drooling on Remus. Lily heard smothered laughs and giggles from behind her, but she paid James no notice-which was very hard these days.

"Uh.Lily.you're hair." Tonya whispered, pointing. Lily grabbed the plait that ran halfway down her back-it had turned blue and slimy.with ink. Lily stood up quickly, knocking over a chair in the process.

"JAMES POTTER!! I WILL KILL YOU! I WILL THROW YOU OUT OF ONE OF THE DIVINATION ROOM WINDOWS ONTO 12 FOOT SPIKES AND DROP AND PINK AND PURPLE ELEPHANT ON TOP OF YOU!!" James and Sirius were rolling on the ground. Remus looked at Lily interestedly.

"Why pink and purple?" Lily growled. James stopped laughing for a moment.

"You shouldn't growl like that, Lily--lionesses aren't very becoming."

Needless to say, Lily, James, Sirius and Remus ended up in Professor Dippet's office. The old headmaster was in a meeting, so they were told to sit quietly.for an hour.

They didn't.

James and Sirius took it upon themselves to rifle through Dippet's desk, finding several dangerous, rare, and/or ancient items, most of which were returned.most. Remus went up a set of stairs to look through the giant telescope with runes on it, and Lily started playing a very muggle-like version of chess with Dippet's favorite set, given to him by "the wizard from oz", as was inscribed on the side.

James looked over at Lily. "The 'wizard from oz?!" he asked incredulously.

"Yeah. I wonder if Dorothy knew he was really a wizard."

"Who?! And were the heck is Oz?" Sirius wanted to know. Lily and Remus(who had returned) laughed themselves silly.

"Lily, o love of my life, if it pleases Oddly enough, when Dippet returned, Remus was teaching James the tune to "over the rainbow" and Sirius was trying on a pair of ruby slippers, which apparently been transfigured from the knight on his chess set.

"Ahem," Dippet began. "I see you have had a nice time in my office. You will each have detention on Thursday, Friday, and Monday evenings with Professor Hawkins in the potions classroom. You are dismissed."

"Oh no! Detentions with Hawkins.she'll kill us for sure." James groaned. They were walking back to the Gryphindor common room.

"Oof!" Sirius had tripped over a considerably short, fat little boy-- Peter Pettigrew, the other 5th year boy. "Oh, hey, Peter." Peter squeaked and scuttled away with Sirius watching over his shoulder. "Odd little guy."

"Sirius, be nice," Lily scolded. Sirius raised his eyebrows until they looked like they were about to pop off and fly away. Then he reached over and grabbed Lily, dipping her until all the blood began rushing to her head.

you, it shall be done." Lily slapped him. "Ow!" Sirius dropped her.

"Hey!" Lily screeched, torn between breaking out laughing or slapping Sirius again. Decisions, decisions.

She chose the latter.

Detention wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. Professor Hawkins was in a meeting, so they were told to sit there. Needless to say, this was impossible. Remus and Lily(who weren't bad at potions) whipped up a permanent glue solution, which dried immediately after something touched it. Professor Hawkins would have a hard time getting up from her seat the next day..

James and Sirius soon became bored, so they transfigured three chairs into various items(a scorpion, a snake, and a mousetrap) and hid them strategically in Hawkins's desk. Sirius also transfigured a violin that ahd been hanging on the wall(why?) into a kitten.

Lily looked over at Sirius's kitten, now called Viola. "Oh, look, now Ivvi has a friend!" she exclaimed happily. Sirius raised his eyebrows(again) at James.
"Umm.Ivvi is this cat I gave Lily for Christmas.." James explained. Sirius grinned evilly.
"Awww. Does ickle Jamsie have a crush?" Sirius ducked a flying quill.
"I do not like Lily! She's a stuck-up.." James began, but was interupted by Sirius.
"Good. Hy, Lily, wanna go out with James?" Lily's face blened with her hair, it was red.
"Um.okay." James just stood there, his jaw hanging open. Remus laughed at him and followed Sirius and Lily out the door, which had magically sprung open at the end of their detention.

"Wow, Sirius. That was.weird." James said once they were up in the dorms.
"Yeah..So Remmy, I've thought of something." Remus looked up. "Well, Werewolves only bight humans, right?" Remus turned green, but he nodded. James and Sirius had learned his secret last year when they read his diary. "Well, if we were animals."

"Sirius, where is this going?"

"We could become animagi!" Remus sat up--and hit his head.

"Ow. Sirius, that's illegal!"

"So?" James looked excited. "We would need you for potions, me, because transfiguration spells ave to do with it, and Sirius, because it was his idea, but..oh, darn, there's charms involved."
"James, how do you know all that?" James reached under his bed and pulled out his own copy of "Moste Potente Potions". "Wow! I guess we could get Lily to do it."
"Yeah! Let's go get her!" Suddenly, a small black lump farthest from the one all three boys were sitting on moved.
"Hey, hey guys?" It was Peter. "Could I do it too?" James and Sirius exchanged glances: Peter was horrible in every class. However, before either of them could say anything, Remus spoke up.
"Sure, Peter. Be right back, okay?" Peter nodded, and the three other boys trooped into Lily's room.

"You ask her. She's your girlfriend." Sirius pushed James to the front.

"Hey, uh, Lily?" She looked up. "See, Remus here, is, uh, a werewolf." Lily didn't look surprised. "Well, we were gonna, um, become animagi, so we could, you know, help him, but there's charm work involved." Lily jumped up and kissed James--they'd been doing that a lot lately.

"Of course I'll help you! But only if I can become one, too." Sirius, James and Remus all grinned.

Moaning myrtle's bathroom was a tight squeeze for five fifth years, but they managed. Lily and Remus looked over the recipe for the animagus potion. "This will take, uh, 2 months at the least. So no mess-ups, 'kay? We've only just got enough time to finish it."Lily instucted. They all placed various ingrediants on the table by the cauldron.

"Right, well, we put this in, then this, stir for two minutes." Lily and Remus began throwing in ingrediants, chopping or shredding them, and working hard on the project. Peter, Sirius and James sat boredly through it all.

Two months later
"It's done! Oh my gosh, it's done!" Lily squealed. James looked at the potion.

"Urgh. We have to drink that?" Lily smiled sweetly.

"Yup. You first!" She handed him a goblet, which he took. James drank the whole thing, and then stood there for a second, looking unhappy.

"Do you think we.." POP! James dissapeared, to be replaced by a giant stag. It looked itself over, then began hopping gleefully in place.

"Wow. That looks really weird. My turn!" Sirius took his own goblet and downed it, making silly faces of disgust at the same time. "WEEEEEE!" Sirius became a large, shaggy, black dog. Peter turned white.

"EEEEEEEEEEE! It's the Grim!" he squealed.

"Peter, shut up. It's just Sirius. Here, it's your turn, so drink this." Peter reached out a trembling hand and grabbed the goblet. He moaned his unhappiness, but it was cut off by his turning into a rat. Lily laughed herself silly, as did Sirius and James, who had returned. "Oh, yay, it's my turn."

Lily gulped down her own goblet of the brown mess and waited. With a POP, she became a sleek, little Ocelot. "Ooh, how cute!" Sirius laughed, reaching down to pick up the little cat. It stalked away, tail in the air. POP! Lily was back.

"Oh my gosh!" she squealed. She and Sirius were dancing around in circles when the door opened...

DUNDUNDUN! End chapter 3. Did u like that? I didn't mean to add the animagi/animal becoming thing in this chapter, but I couldn't resist. As payment, you get a cliffy. Yay!!! Disclaimer: Whatever. ~High of Stars