The Ties That Bind

By Unicornfan

            A/n Here I am with my first chappie of this ficcie. (That rhymes.) I am warning you here and now, I ill never be as good as Kay, she is an amazing writer, almost as good (who can be as good as her?) as J.K. Rowling herself, no, let me correct myself, she is as good as J.K. Rowling herself. Anyway, with that out of the way here is my chapter, don't except anything special, and I will do my BEST to get people in-character, (I kind of mess up with that a lot.) Anyway, another of my blabbing, here's the chappie! Note, I stole the name Abby Lenz form a girl I know. But if she sees this, which she won't, she'll kill me because she doesn't have acne or anything, so, Abby, if for some freaky coincidence you're reading this, I only took the name!!! Note, she's not fat either, anyway, the story!!!

Chapter 2: Hogsmeade Havoc

            Lily sighed, curled up in a tight ball, hey eyes blinking in the absolute darkness. She had tried to sleep, but she couldn't. The thoughts of the gang of idiots, as she liked to call them, or the Marauder as they called themselves, glided through her head like dementors on a field with their pray on the other side. It lingered there, and she just couldn't identify why. She was used to their continuous mischievous nature. It was nothing new. Yet why did the thought keep haunting her? Why? One of her friends, Mila, had suggested that she might like James. That was absurd, absolutely absurd! Completely and utterly….

            Maybe Mila was telling the truth…

            No! She couldn't be! She couldn't like him. Not the prank-playing-flirting-'jock'-idiotic-git. Not the man who played pranks on poor Snape for no reason, well, he kind of deserved it, not that same big-headed chaser slash seeker who continually showed off and ruffled his hair, specifically to her. No, no way in hell did she like him.

            Sighing she lied down and pulled the cover up to her chin, trying to bargain herself over to sleep, hoping the nice autumn wind would help her fall asleep. She sank into her pearly-white mattress as if it was a baby-soft cloud. The deep magenta colored bed hangings around her four-poster bed, and the curtains fluttered to a peaceful melody in the cool breeze. And finally, after what felt like an hour, she drifted off into deep slumber, in till….

            "Lily! Wake up! Today's the Hogsmeade weekend, don't you have prefect duty or something?" A fellow Gyffendor 6th year, Stacy Lane, a fat cheerful girl who was currently going out with Edgar Bones, asked her shaking her violently.

            'Yea-Yes-I-I-do-Stacy-please-please-stop-stop-STOP SHAKING ME!!!!" Lily yelled feeling nauseous at being thrown back and forth so much.

            "Oh yeah, sorry. Anyway, you should be getting up." She shrugged and walked off, Lily sighed and got up, she wasn't much of a morning person. During the summer she slept in to 3 pm, well, she did stay up 'till 4 p.m. She wandered if it was some kind of disease, sleeping that late. But it didn't matter, she was a prefect, she had duties.

            She through on some robes, and combed her ruby-red hair. She had seen people with flaming-red hair. But her's seemed to have some shine to it, she was quite proud of it and always spent a very long time in the shower washing it.

            She mumbled about sleep and trotted over to the Great Hall, where she treated herself to bacon and eggs, a rather American meal, except for the usual pumpkin juice where she had seen nowhere but in the wizarding world, and dominated as the top soft drink at Hogwarts.

            "So, then, while he was listening to Professor Brown's boring lecture about enlarging charms, I switched his frog with a mint-flavored chocolate frog, which I had filled with swamp scum, that I had placed a jumping charm on, when he tried to enlarge it, him, and the rest of the Slytherins were covered with the slime and mint-flavored chocolate frog debris, since, of course, the whole thing blew up!!!" James Potter said through deep breaths, pounding his hand on the table, which then resulted in knocking his goblet over.

            He muttered a vanishing spell while Sirius patted him on the back, "Ahh, that was second year, but it never gets old. That greasy haired Snape has thing against swamps now."

            Lily stuck her chin up, those two boys were repulsive!!!!!

            "You can do a jumping spell?" peter asked breathlessly, Sirius looked at him with this expression, a mixture of pity and annoyance.

            "That was learned in first year, Peter," Remus sighed.

            "I know… but I never got it."

            Lily rolled her eyes and drank her pumpkin juice slowly, how that magically challenged dufus ever became part of Marauder, she'd never know. He reminded her of a rat, he also seemed to have an odd attraction towards them. Whenever in Transfiguration they would transfigure a rat into a bird or something, he'd never even try. He never usually succeed in the simplest transfigurations anyway, but he always tried, miserably. But he wouldn't even try toward the rats and always kept them as pets. Filthy, if you asked Lily.

            "Prefects! Over here!" Came Professor Mcgonall's shrill voice. Remus and Lily, along with their other Gyffendor prefects, stood up from their half-finished breakfasts and walked her way, as did all the other prefects, and of course the head boy and girl who were both Slytherins, rather bad year to be a prefect.

            "You are to patrol the area's that students can go to, Slytherins, Honeydukes, Gyffendor's, Zaon's joke store, Ravenclaw's, the streets, Hufflepuff's, the Three Broom Sticks.

            "Umm, Professor Mcgonall?" Remus asked raising his hand.

            "Yes Lupin?" She asked in an exasperated tone.

            "Well, there are more people over at Honeydukes, so can we Fifth year Gyffendor prefects go over to Honeydukes with the Slytherins?"

            "Lupin." Professor Mcgonall said in a warning tone.

            "What? I'm just stating a point." He said in that all-too-familiar innocent tone.

            Lily hit her head, not another of their stupid jokes.

            "Fine…" She said eyeing him suspiciously.

            "Thank you." He said with classic good-boy smile.

            Professor Mcgonall dismissed them and they started waking over to Hogsmeade, the rest of the school, well at least third years and up, would be coming soon enough.

            "Lupin." Lily yelled running after him, "What are you planning?"

            "Sorry Lily, that's none of your business." He said with a small smile.

            "Well, why'd you have to involve me in it anyway?"

            "Ohh, I didn't mean to, it just sounded less suspicious if I said the 5th years."

            "Yeah, whatever." She said rolling her eyes and jogging ahead.

            Remus smiled, ahh, she believed that did she? She had no idea what was about to happen... though he wasn't entirely sure himself…

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            "OK, third years and above, I do hope your breakfasts are finished, enjoy your weekend at Hogsmeade." Professor Dumbledore said with the usual twinkle in his eyes.

            "Ohh, I hate this." A 5th year named John Smith muttered. "My parents are muggles you know, and they were all odd about Hogsmeade. I've never been able to go."

            "Tough luck." Sirius said shrugging.

            He nodded and went back to eating his breakfast, which he had been eating rather slowly.

            "So." Sirius said smiling, looking at his best friend, "Do you got all the stuff?"

            "Yup.' He said pulling out a bag, which were filled with three notes that had "Snape' and 'Servius' written on them, with many little hearts, and a small tube filled with a purple liquid, and a box of raspberry filled chocolate frogs.

            "So, what's your part of the plan? With Evans?' Sirius asked walking towards the towering doors while James quickly hid the bag under his invisibility cloak.

            "You're gonna involve Lily?" Peter asked, breathless as usual.

            "I'm gonna say in a minute, Remus probably got Evans and him over to Honeydukes, so everything's set.  The Slytherins are patrolling there, so little Snivelly should be there. Now, I got some raspy jelly filled chocolate frogs here." He nodded towards his 'empty' hands.

            "Yeah, they're Evan's favorite right?" Sirius asked, blowing his jet black bangs out of his eyes, while Peter just starred at them opened-mouthed. A couple of girls passed by and giggled, waving towards Sirius.

            "Hi." He said looking towards then, they giggled more and walked off.

            "They're like putty in your hands." James said shaking his hands.

            "Ya, it get's kinda annoying after awhile though…":

            "You're kidding me, right?"

            "Of course." Sirius said smiling.

            "Anyway, I put some love potion in the chocolate frogs, it mixes perfect with the jam, I brought along some extra just in case. Also, we wrote 'love letter's' for that greasy-haired git, Snape. Of course, it's actually Dungbombs in disguise; we transfigured them, but also put a fingerprint touch spell on it. You know, if Snape touches it, it becomes a dungbomb again, but it also explodes all over his slimy self. I stole one of his dragon hide gloves for the finger prints, had to wear some gloves so my fingerprints wouldn't go on it."

            Sirius nodded in approval,  "You, are a genius, my friend."

            "You can do all those spells?" Peter said in awe.

            "Wormtail, we're anigami, of course he can." Sirius said rolling his eyes.

            "SHH!!! Padfoot!!! We're out in the open!!"  James said in a hushed tone.

            "Oh ya, opps." He said shrugging.

            "Anyway, so, you're gonna give Evans a love potion?" Sirius inquired.

            "Well, it's only for an hour you know, this isn't a permanent one, just long enough so I can get myself a good kiss." He said smiling.

            "She's gonna kill you afterwards, you know that don't you, Prongs?"

            "Yeah." James said with a sheepish smile, "But it'll be wroth it."

            Sirius cackled gleefully as they reached the postcard-perfect village.

            Snape walked around the candy shop, angry at the world. Of all people, that mudblood had to be there. She was rather pretty, but she was a mudblood! She shouldn't have been allowed to stand near him.

            Then, them, they walked up to him, he hated them. Potter, Black, Pettigrew, he hated them all. No, hate wasn't the word, but it was the best he could conjure up.

            They entered the shop for a while, and then left after about 30 minutes, their arms filled with all kinds of repulsive candy. He personally hated candy, it was too… sweet.  As they walked by Potter dropped a box of raspberry jelly flavored choc late frogs, he didn't seem to notice it and kept on walking by, only stopping to sneer at him. Snape ignore the candy, and the sneer, after all, he hated it, and their rivalry wasn't going to end anytime soon, a sneer wasn't something to get worked up over, there were over things… but then he saw something very, very, interesting.  He hadn't noticed these before, but on the ground were 3 notes, blowing around in the light breeze. And, they all had his name on it, with hearts and such; did he have a secret admirer? The thought was sickened him, but he also wondered how it was from... hummm… best of his curiosity got the best of him and he decided to examine the notes.

            Snape slowly walked over to the closest note, which was flapping in the wind lazily; from his distance he could see "Snapey-poo, I heart you." The heart being a picture of a valentine, this was so stupid. Who was this junk from? Probably some mudblood… but at that exact moment a breeze caught the closest note and shifted it ten feet away from it's pervious position, sighing, he chased after it.

            Meanwhile, Lily had spied the candy box. Well, it wasn't open, and, ohh, those chocolate frogs were too good!!! She walked over to the box a big grin on her face; at that exact moment she could swear she heard a snicker behind her.

            She turned around quickly. But didn't notice anyone there, shrugging, she kept on walking towards the delicious frogs. Then, a Ravenclaw 6th year named Abby Lenz, walked over to her. She was rather overweight, and had the worse case of acne anyone had ever seen. Madam Proffey was subbing for a doctor at St. Mundug's Hospital for Magical Madies and injuries, that doctor currently in the magical injuries department with 6 extra legs. So, they had a nurse named Madam Johnson subbing for them. She was Ok, but didn't know the cure to Abby's acne that Madam Proffey did, and she couldn't heal bones without leaving the poor patient with horrible pains, but she was the best they could get. But, poor Abby was just left with the ugliest face in history.

            "Hi Abby." She said, waving at her and picking up the box of chocolate.

            "Ohh, are those raspberry jelly-filled chocolate frogs?" She asked, her eyes bulging behind her zits.

            "Yeah, they are, they're my favorite." Lily said opening up the box.

            "Mine also!!! Hey, um, can I have one?"

            "Hi Evans!' James Potter suddenly shouted waving at her and coming out from behind the Honeydukes building.

            "Hi." She said roiling her eyes and passing a chocolate frog to Abby.

            "Wait! Don't eat that! They're… poisonous." James said quickly as Abby's chubby arm moved towards her mouth.

            "They are?" Abby asked, hesitantly.

            "Err, ya. But, they're fine for Evans," hr said quickly.

            "Why are they OK for me and not Abby?" Lily askew in an annoyed tone, she was currently unwrapping one of the frogs.

            "Abby's allergic to chocolate, aren't you?' he said winking.

            She obviously didn't get the point, "No. I'd die without chocolate."

            "Ohh, but chocolate gives you zits." James sounded very desperate for Abby not to eat the chocolate frog.

            "It won't matter, it's a spell. My little brother was messing around with my wand this summer, they're not actual zits from eating sweets." She said, moving the chocolate to her mouth again. Well, that made sense, thought Lily. That's why her acne case was so bad.

            "Ohh, but, when Madam Proffey gets back, you'll have new zits because of it."

            "She'll be able to get rid of those also, and I don't get zits, well, unless they're magical." With hat she took a big bite off the chocolate frog.

            James flinched and Sirius came out from behind the building, "Oh no, you're screwed Prongs…"

            "I know…" James sighed and started backing away form Abby, who's eyes had become dazed.

            "What did you do to her!?" Lily yelled, disgusted, throwing the box of chocolate frogs and her half unwrapped one as far from her as humanely possible, about 10 feet.

            "Well, there's a love potion in there…"

            "A LOVE POTION!!!???"

            "Only an hour long one…" James whimpered throwing his arms over his head in defense to whatever Lily's anger would cause her hands to do, such as slap him to death.

            "You know that's against the rules!"

            "It was meant for you! Not Abby!  And since when do I follow the rules?"

            "Me!? HOW DARE YOU!!!" Lily yelled enraged. "And never! I'm going to report this you know!! Hopefully you'll be expelled!!!" At that moment, right after her yelling, two things happened.

            The first was a loud explosion exactly where Snape was standing, which was followed by a repulsive smell, the second was Abby tried to lunge at James but Lily held her back.

            Snape blinked stupidly, covered in filth, as people backed away, pinching their noses. He then picked up the last too notes on the ground, causing more explosions, and more of that repulsive smell, that combination of rotten eggs, old socks, and, of course, dung.

            "The idiot," Sirius said shaking his head, "You'd think he'd have earned from the first one."

            "James, did you know you are the most beautiful mean ever?" Abby asked dreamily.

            "Oh!! You and you stupid jokes on him!! But, how strong did you make that stupid love potion!?"

            "Umm, very strong... but only for an hour!!!"

            "Aghh!!!"  Lily tried to walk off, pulling on Abby's arm, put it didn't work, due to the fact Abby was more than twice as heavy as her.

            "Well, did you make an antidote!?"

            "Umm, I didn't think I'd need one…"

            "So, you thought your plan would fall through perfectly?"

            "Something like that…"

            "James, you are so hot." And with that Abby successfully rampaged out of Lily's weak grip.

            James was caught by surprise as he was glomped, and Peter and Remus walked slowly out from behind the building holding their stomachs in their laughter, Sirius doing the same.

            "Potter." Snape snapped walking towards them, making his own lane since everyone backed away from the dung-covered prefect when he was ten feet away from anyone.

            "Yes, Snivelly Poo?" James asked calmly, trying to ignore how it was getting harder and harder to breathe.

            "How dare you. Ohh, don't get me wrong, I will get back at you."

            "Just try." James said with his normal sheepish grin.

            "And, very nice girlfriend you have." He snapped trudging off back to school slowly, obviously to take a shower as a small cloud of flies circled him and landed on him, despite his continuous attempts to shoo them away.

            Remus and Sirius were in a hysterical fit of laughter, and Peter was just standing their dumbly, obviously he had only laughed before because Remus had also and didn't quite know what so funny.

            "What's so funny?" He inquired looking up at his friends.

            "Nothing's funny at all, it's repulsive." Lily muttered, sniffing the sleeve of her robes to make sure the dung smell hasn't soaked into it.

            "Umm… ok then…"

            "I gotta hand it to you bud," Sirius said, grinning and clapping James son the back, "that was a good one."

            "Yeah… but… help." He said through tight breaths, obviously he was being hugged too hard to breathe regularly.

            "Sorry bud, you're by himself." He said shrugging.

            "Moony?"

            "Sorry, I got prefect duty."

            "Wormtail…"

            "Umm, what do you need help with?"

            "…"

            "Evans?"

            "Fat chance Potter! I suggest you see Madam Johnson." Lily said, eyeing him with a look or pure hate and flipping her hair back in an annoyed matter as she turned around and walked off.

            "But… then I'll get detention…" He whimpered.

            "Oh yes, that's something new!!!" She yelled at him turning around, and then continuing on her pace over to Zaon's joke shop, where she should have been in the first place.

            Whimpering James slowly side stepped over in the direction of the Wizarding School, being haltered by the weight of Abby, of course.

            A/N: Yup, that was it. I told you Kay's would be better. Well, I hope I didn't butcher the fic, and I hope you liked it nevertheless. Next chapter is Kay. (Bellatrix Black.) So, ya. So, please R&R. OK, I'm shutting up, 'cause I can't think of anything else to say. I do, but, ohh, I can't help it! Answer in the review, ok this name Aeris, would you pronounce it Air-is for Air-reese? Thanks! I hadta ask that. Anyway, cya later!!! Ohh, and this is the longest chapter I have ever written so I probably won't get much longer than this, just saying. Well, cya!!!