Chapter 6

The next morning, Sirius, Remus, and Peter got up with half an hour to spare until breakfast.

Sirius pulled back James' bed curtains to reveal James sleeping deeply in his bed.

Sirius shook his head in mock disgust. He leaned right up to James' ear, and yelled, "Jamie! Wake up!"

James jumped awake.

"Wah, what happened?" he shouted.

"Just you're morning wake up call." Grinned Sirius.

Every morning at Hogwarts was the same. The three boys got up, and James slept soundly until Sirius shouted at him. Then he would say something stupid like "what happened", when it happened every day, and he should know what happened. Every morning except Quidditch match mornings that is.

Before James could pull the covers back over his head, Peter and Remus grabbed him and rolled him out of bed.

James hit the ground with a thump.

"I'm up, I'm up." He grumbled as he pushed himself up off the ground.

"Well Jamie boy." said Sirius; "You stayed up much later than you normally would on the first night of school kitchen raid last night."

James jumped up. "First of all, don't call me Jamie, Sirius. Or should I say Sally. And second of all, how do you know that I have… had, a first night of the school year kitchen raid?"

Sirius put his head in his hands. "You underestimate me Jamie. I know you ok?"

The boys were all dressed, so they headed downstairs. No one was in the Common Room, so the boys went out the portrait hole and started to walk to the Great Hall for breakfast.

After a little, they heard a shout from behind.

"Wait up!"

James and Peter turned and saw Lily running towards them. When she caught up, James announced, "Lily got to skip her 4th year, and got moved up to her 5th."

"Sweetness." Said Sirius with no sarcasm in his voice. "We get to have the Lovely Lily tag along with us."

Remus piped up. "If she hangs with us she needs a boy name."

"A boy name?" asked Lily skeptically.

"Sure." Said Sirius, "We have girl names."

"Sirius." Moaned Peter, "Please..."

"Girl names? Do tell." Said Lily.

"Well," said James, "Let's start with Sirius shall we? Or should I say. Sally."

Sirius stood up straight and saluted; and than retorted "James is Jamie."

"Remus is Rose." Said Peter.

"And Peter is Polly." Retorted Remus.

By this time, Lily was bursting with laughter. "I… ha ha... can't believe... ha ha ha hee hee… how well those... hee hee… names... hee ha ha ha... fit you guys!"

James looked at the three other guys.

"Lance?"

"Definitely Lance." The three replied.

Lily got up.

"No way. You guys aren't gonna call me that!"

The four boys smiled evilly.

"You hang with us, you do like us." Taunted James.

Lily relented as they got to the Great Hall.

"Lance, it is then." She said, "Lance, Jamie, Sally, Rose, and Polly."

"Why do you get to be first?" Whined Sirius.

The rest of the day went pretty well. Lily got more and more adapted to the four pranksters. And she found herself leaning a little more in the liking category towards James; otherwise known as Jamie.