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"Bye, Jim-Jim-Jimmyjim-Jim-Jim-Jim!" Michelle yelled, leaning out the window of the Hogwarts Express. It was the Saturday after the September first, and Michelle was going back to London and meeting her mother at Platform Nine and Three Quarters.

"Don't call me that, Chelle-Chelle-Chellychelle-Chelle-Chelle-Chelle!" James yelled back. He was down at the station in Hogsmeade, the local wizarding community, with Sirius, Peter, Remus, Belle, and Lily, saying goodbye to his sister.

"Shut up, you yeller bellied liver snap," Michelle retorted.

"That's it, I'm writing Mum and telling her to stop letting you watch John Wayne movies!" James declared.

Michelle's jaw dropped. "No, Jaime, you wouldn't! Please don't!" she begged.

Lily laughed. "Bye, Michelle!" she called. "I'll write to you!"

Over the past few days, Michelle and Lily (and Belle) had become good friends. They had also become friends with the other girls in their dorm - Lydian, Miana, and Anne. Lydian, they found out, was a total tomboy. She was more at home on the soccer field, Quidditch field, basketball court, volleyball court, ice skating rink, and swimming pool than she was anywhere else. Miana was a drama queen. She was a very talented actress, singer, and dancer, and loved to do all three. Anne was the quietest of them, and had only one passion: writing. Lily had stumbled upon Anne one afternoon sitting in the window seat in their dorm, writing poems that were as good as any of the ones Lily had read in school.

"Bye, Michelle!" Sirius yelled at the top of his lungs.

"See you later!" Remus shouted.

"Bye, guys!" Michelle yelled back, waving furiously.

The train pulled away from the platform, and the six students turned and walked back up to the castle.

"Are you glad your sister's leaving?" Belle asked James. He laughed.

"I'm glad, but then again, I'm not. I really had fun with her here for a while," he said.

"Michelle's nice," Lily put in. "I can't wait till she comes here next year."

"I can," Sirius said, grinning. "The sooner she gets here, the less time we have to play pranks without worrying about getting in trouble!"

"MARAUDERS STRIKE AGAIN!" James, Sirius, and Remus yelled. They high-fived each other.

"Peter, how come you didn't say it?" James asked suddenly.

"Yeah, Peter, do you not want to be a Marauder anymore?" Sirius wanted to know.

"Marauders strike again," Peter mumbled. He held up his hand for a high- five from each boy.

"That's better," Remus said, smiling. Lily wasn't sure, but she thought that he looked a little more tired than usual.

"Remus, are you okay?" she asked. "You look kind of sick."

"No, I'm fine," Remus said hurriedly.

"Are you sure?" Belle asked. "You do look a little pale."

"I'm fine," Remus insisted. "What's today?" he asked suddenly.

"Saturday," Lily, James, and Sirius all said together.

"No, what's the date?" Remus corrected.

Sirius told him and Remus went, if possible, a little paler.

"Are you all right?" Lily asked again.

"Remus, you don't look so great," James commented.

"I'm fine!" Remus snapped.

Peter winced.

Remus rubbed his eyes. "Sorry, guys," he said. "I'm just not myself today."

"I'll say," Belle said under her breath.

They reached the castle and went inside, debating where they should go. The Gryffindor common room wasn't really a good idea, since Peter was in Slytherin and a lot of the other Gryffindor students didn't really like Slytherins that much.

"We could go to the library," Lily suggested.

"How about the Quidditch field?" Sirius said excitedly. "I think the Gryffindor team is down there practicing. We could watch!"

"Nah," James said. "They'd assume that Peter was spying."

"Oh yeah," Sirius said, disappointed.

"I still say we go to the library," Lily said. "Besides, we've got to finish our Transfiguration homework," she pointed out.

The others grumbled, not wanting to be reminded of homework.

"I need to go see McGonagall," Remus said suddenly, edging away from them. "I'll meet you guys up in the common room, I guess. See you around, Peter," he added, going around the corner.

"He's weird," was Belle's comment.

"You think you aren't?" was Sirius's retort.

"No, I know I am, but he's just plain out weird," Belle replied.

"Oh well. Whatever it is, it's his business," James interrupted. "Come on, I guess we should go do our homework."

"Okay," they all groaned. They all trudged up to the common room, and sat together working on the loads of homework they had been given.

A few weeks later, James received a letter from his mother.

"Ha ha, Mum sent Chelle to Ireland," he read, grinning widely as he read.

"Huh?" Lily said.

"Why would your mum send your sister to Ireland?" Belle asked, confused.

"I think I know why," Sirius said, a grin beginning to show.

"Then explain, please," Remus threw in, looking up from a letter from his family.

"My mother's mother is Irish, and has the temper to prove it," James began. "Her name is Siobhan Ebony-Mahoney. She lives in Dublin, way far away from any of the other people that live there. She's got a great house, and acres of land that are awesome for playing Quidditch on. But, she doesn't have a television, radio, or telephone - Muggle things," he explained, seeing the blank expressions on Remus's and Belle's faces. Sirius knew what these things were, as James's mother had them so she could keep up her appearance as a Muggle and Sirius had spent half his life at James's house.

"So what's Michelle do up there?" Lily asked curiously.

"She basically has to sit around and embroider, which Gramma loves to do, or sit and do nothing, since Mum said she didn't let Chelle take her broom," James replied, scanning the letter.

"But I still don't understand why your sister's in Ireland," Remus said.

"I don't, either," Lily and Belle chimed in.

"She's in Ireland because that's her punishment for sneaking aboard the train," James said.

"Gramma's fun, though," Sirius said, reaching across the table they were sitting at and picking up Lily's Charms homework. "I'm borrowing this."

"No, you are not!" Lily said, snatching her homework back. "You call James's grandmother Gramma?"

"Yeah, why not? I've known her pretty much all my life, and she acts the same to me as she does her real grandchildren," Sirius said, shrugging. He looked at Lily pleadingly. "Can I pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaase borrow your homework? Pretty please with a cherry on top? Please please please?"

"No!" Lily said, standing up, putting her homework on her chair, and sitting on it. She crossed her arms. "You'll never learn if you don't do it yourself."

"I'll let you borrow my Potions homework," Sirius wheedled.

Remus, James, and Belle were watching the two with amused faces. James was secretly wondering if he should take Sirius's side and help him get Lily's homework, or take Lily's side and yell at Sirius to do his own homework.

"I don't want to borrow your Potions homework," Lily said, rolling her eyes. "You haven't even done it yet!"

"I know, but you can when I finish it," Sirius said, sticking out his bottom lip. "Please? Please please please?"

"No!"

Finally, helping his best friend won. James (who was sitting on Lily's left side) winked at Sirius and then started tickling Lily.

"Stop it!" Lily said between giggles, trying to get away from James while still sitting on her homework.

By then, Sirius understood what James was doing and ducked under the table, came up on Lily's right, and started tickling her as well. "Grab her homework, Remus!" he yelled. Several other students in the common room shot him dirty looks, but Sirius didn't care.

"Here, maybe this'll work better," James said, still tickling Lily. "You grab her feet, I'll get her arms."

"No! Don't you dare pick me up, James Potter!" Lily ordered, out of breath and still giggling. "Isabelle, help me!"

"Nah, this is too much fun to watch," Belle said, laughing.

Sirius bent down and grabbed Lily's feet while James got her arms. They picked her up out of her chair and Remus grabbed Lily's homework. They then set her back down on her chair.

"Ooh, I'm gonna kill you," Lily said, still out of breath. "When I get my breath back and can actually chase you, you're going to wish you had Hermes' winged slippers," she added.

"I used to have a pair, but they don't fit anymore," James replied, grinning and copying down Lily's answers. He laughed at Lily's astonished look. "They were a very popular wizarding toy for a while."

Lily sat down, shaking her head and muttering about how she didn't know why she put up with them.

"Oh, give it up, Lil," Sirius said, handing her her homework, which she yanked away from him with a dark look. "You know you love hanging around us."

"Oh yeah, I absolutely adore you all," she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"We know you do," Remus said just as sarcastically, looking up from his letter again.

"Hey Remus, how's your mom doing?" Sirius asked suddenly. "I mean, you left school so suddenly, none of us were really sure what was wrong."

"Uh, yeah, she's fine," Remus said. Lily wasn't sure if it was her imagination or if Remus was looking a little nervous. She decided that she had to be imagining things, since there was no reason for Remus to look nervous.

Just then, the portrait hole opened and slammed closed again. Lily turned around to see who it was that had walked in so angrily and saw it was Lydian.

"Ooh, I hate him so much!" she said, going over to Lily, Belle, Sirius, James, and Remus. "Guys, can you kill him for me?"

"Who?" James, Remus, and Sirius all said together.

"That stupid Hufflepuff first year kid. His name's Chad Clark or something like that," Lydian said. "He won't leave any of us girls alone!"

"Yeah, he's pretty annoying," Belle said. "He thinks he's God's gift to all the girls here."

"How dare he assume he is, when everyone knows that I am!" Sirius said, his jaw dropping.

Lily, Belle, and Lydian all rolled their eyes.

"You wish. Anyway, the sooner you do something to hurt that boy, the better," Lydian said. "Can I count on you?"

"You got it," James said.

"Thanks." Lydian walked away.

"All right, boys, we need to go get Peter," James said, standing. Sirius and Remus followed suit.

"What are you guys planning on doing?" Lily asked suspiciously. "You'd better not do anything that can get any of you in trouble - and that means Chad, too!"

"Aww, Lil, you're no fun," James said, grinning mischievously. "We'll only lock him in the girls' bathroom if there aren't any girls in there, then," he added.

"Darn, it's more fun when there are," Sirius said, disappointed.

"Yeah, but it'd be torture for the girls that got stuck in there," Remus reminded him. "And you know that if they ever found out it was us who locked Chad in there with them, they'd kill us. And then they'd never consider dating you."

"True, very true," Sirius agreed. "Let's go."

They went through the portrait hole, laughing and talking excitedly.

"They're going to get in such deep trouble one of these days," Lily said, starting on her Potions homework.

"I only hope we're around when it happens," Belle said, giggling.

"Sooo, I wonder where little Chadly is," James mused. "Let's check down by the Great Hall. He seems to hang around there a lot."

"Yeah, there and outside the girls' bathroom," Sirius said. "He seems to think that if he waits outside their bathroom, one of them will eventually pay attention to him."

"Like that's ever going to happen," Remus snorted.

"It won't," James said.

They found Peter in the library, trying desperately to make sense of his Transfiguration homework, and told him their plan. He readily agreed to help them and abandoned his homework without another thought.

"There he is," Sirius whispered as they approached the Great Hall. His eyes gleamed. "Do mine eyes deceive me, or dost thou see it as well?" he asked, reverting to very poor old English.

"Methinks I do," James whispered back. He pointed. "There is another victim! And methinks he wants to be locked in with his fellow idiot!"

"You two are insane," Remus said, shaking his head.

Peter just smiled nervously.

"All right, Peter, you're in charge of getting the second victim," James instructed. "Remus, Sirius, and I will get the first victim."

"I don't want to get Snape all by myself," Peter said, looking over and seeing who James was pointing at.

"Come on, Peter, you'll never get any braver if you don't start doing things yourself," Remus said, giving Peter a little push. "Go!"

Mumbling the whole way, Peter walked over to Snape, who was with his "friends." Frankly, Peter thought that Snape didn't have friends, unlike him, who was lucky enough to be hanging out with the most popular boys in first year!

"Uh, hi, Severus," he squeaked, reaching them.

Snape turned around to see who was talking to him. When he saw who it was, he turned right back around. His friends laughed.

Peter silently cursed James, Sirius, and Remus for making him do this.

"So, Severus, how's it going?" he said, feeling like he'd rather be anywhere in the world but where he was.

"What do you want, Pettigrew?" Snape said exasperatedly, turning around to face him. "I know you have no real reason to talk to me, except for maybe your stupid friends made you."

"N-no, they didn't," Peter said, his knees trembling. "I was just wondering if you could help me with my Defense Against the Dark Arts homework," he added, thinking of a way to get Snape out of there. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw James, Sirius, Remus, and Chad leaving the Great Hall.

"Can't you get stupid Potter to help you?" Snape sighed.

"He w-won't," Peter said, hoping Snape didn't see through his lie. He didn't.

"All right, Peter, what do you need help on?" Snape asked. "I'll be right back," he added to his friends.

They all nodded and started talking again. Peter couldn't hear all of what they were saying, but some of it included something about Tom Riddle and joining him.

"Well? What do you need help on?" Snape said again.

"Uh, the whole thing," Peter lied. "My homework's in the library."

"Fine, let's go," he snapped.

"Okay," Peter said, purposely walking slowly. He knew that James, Sirius, and Remus were probably waiting for him. Sure enough, when Snape strode out of the door, Peter heard James shout "Get him!" and figured that Snape was being tackled. He went through the door and saw James and Remus sitting on Snape, who was yelling at the top of his lungs. Sirius had Chad Clark in a headlock.

"Come on, guys, let's go," Peter said, grinning.

"Where are you taking me?" Chad demanded. "I'm going to fricking kill you as soon as I get away from you!" he added, trying to kick Sirius.

"Yeah, right, whatever, Chadly," Sirius replied, grinning and messing up Chad's hair.

"Don't touch the hair!"

"Ya know, I'm surprised a prefect hasn't heard us and come rushing to get us in trouble," Remus said.

"Shh! Don't curse us, Remus," James said, standing. He then grabbed Snape's hands and held them behind his back while Remus stood up. "Will you two come peacefully, or will you not?"

"GET OFF ME, POTTER!" Snape roared.

"Snapey, you're going to get us in trouble if you don't be quiet," James said, giving Snape a stern look.

Peter led the way down the corridor, keeping an eye out for prefects, teachers, the head boy or girl, and the caretaker. James and Remus came next, nearly dragging Snape, with Sirius following, easily keeping Chad in a headlock.

"Okay, I'll open the door, you guys push them in," Peter said as they approached the bathroom.

"What? Where are you taking me?" Chad demanded. Snape was busy swearing at James and Remus, who were busy not paying attention to him.

"Ready? One... two... THREE!" Peter shoved open the door. In went Severus and Chad, both yelling loudly.

James slammed the door closed and locked it. "Good work, Marauders," he said. "Now, I think we need to go wash our hands, because Snape didn't exactly seem too clean..."

Just as they were walking away, listening with glee to Severus and Chad pounding on the door, Lily and Belle came up to them with annoyed expressions.

"Did you just do what I think you did?" Lily demanded. She stood in front of James, blocking his path.

"You better not have!" Belle said, standing in front of Remus.

Peter, seeing their expressions, cowered behind Sirius. Sirius snorted.

"They deserved it," he said, pushing past the girls and heading down the corridor.

"They'll get out eventually," James said, wanting to follow Sirius but not wanting Lily to be angry with him.

"Eventually?!? And what's going to happen to you when they do?" Lily yelled.

"Er, nothing?" Remus suggested.

Lily gave Belle an irritated look. She stormed over to the bathroom door, unlocked it, and opened the door. Out tumbled Chad and Snape, knocking over Lily and landing on top of her.

"Get off of me, you idiots!" she yelled, fighting to get out from under them.

James fought the urge to go over and smash Snape's and Chad's heads together.

Snape stood up as soon as he heard Lily's voice. "Well, if it isn't the Mudblood," he sneered.

Lily's face flushed. "I am NOT a Mudblood, Snape! Get off me!" She shoved Chad, who stood up and disappeared around a corner, all the while muttering about the ways he was going to kill the Marauders.

"I'm sure you aren't," Snape sniffed. "If you aren't, then why did you live like a Muggle?"

"Because, I didn't know I was a witch!" Lily snapped.

"How could you not know?" Snape scoffed.

"It's a long story, and one I don't feel like telling you!" Lily said, glaring at him. "Come on, Belle." The two girls stormed off.

"Smooth move, Snape," Sirius yelled.

"What did I do?" Snape asked, looking at them like everything was their fault. "I simply asked her how she could not know."

James rolled his eyes in disgust. "Let's get out of here, Marauders," he said. The three other boys followed him down the corridor.

"One day, you will pay for this!" Snape shouted after them. "You will pay!"

A/N: Thank you everyone who has reviewed my story! Michelle, you better not have scared all my reviewers off...I'll cry if you did... just kidding, if anyone scared my reviewers off, it was me. Anyway, please please PLEASE review! And if you could, read some of my other stuff! PLEASE I BEG OF YOU