Chapter 7

That night, Sirius and James got out their potions, and mixed them together in a medium sized cauldron.

"Are you sure you made them right?" asked Remus nervously. "I mean… things could go terribly wrong. You don't even know what you are going to turn into! What if you turn into a hippogriff, or a hippopotamus or something like that?"

"Don't worry Remus." Reassured James, "We did everything right,"

"And we won't turn into anything too big." Interrupted Sirius.

"How do you know?" asked Peter.

"I just know." Sirius/James.

Sirius was taking his turn to stir the potion, (You had to stir it clockwise for half an hour, then drink it.), when the boys heard a knock at the door.

"We're kind of busy here!" shouted James, as he went over to the door.

"Open up." Said the voice; "I know what you guys are doing in there."

James opened the door a crack.

Lily was standing in the doorframe waiting for the boy to let her in, and so he did.

"How do you know?" asked Remus.

"Do you people think I'm stupid? You're always gone on the full moon Remus, and after that, you're sick. Besides that, all today you people have been whispering about a potion. I don't know what that potion is, but you'll tell me won't you?" Inquired Lily.

The boys whispered to each other around the cauldron, and then James said, "We're making a animagus potion. But you can't tell anyone! Not even Dumbledore."

"I won't." Lily promised. "As long as I can drink it too."

The boys opened their eyes wide in shock. She wanted to become an animagus along with them?

"Umm..." thought Remus out loud, "I don't know. It could be dangerous."

"Guys." Said Lily, "It's like the same with the girl names. If I hang out with you, I need to do what you do."

"Okayyy." Relented the boys; "It could go really wrong though,"

"If you're taking that risk, I will too."

After waiting and stirring the potion for the designated half-hour, Sirius and James poured the potion into four cups.

(A.N. Remus didn't need it because... you know. He's not going to be the one changing on purpose.)

"We'll all drink it at the same time ok?" said James.

"One, two, three!"

The three boys and one girl chugged the drink. When they finished, they dropped their cups on the floor.

"That was the most disgusting thing I have ever drunk in my life!" Exclaimed Lily before she screamed and collapsed in a heap.

The boys got up with some difficulty, but Lily stayed on the ground.

Remus rushed over.

"It must have a worse effect on girls than boys!" he exclaimed. "Lily! Are you alright?"

Lily was curled up in a ball holding her legs with her eyes shut tight, silent tears streaming down her face, and was shuddering violently.

"It's not that bad..." Said Peter.

"Well it must be to her!" exclaimed James, mad at Peter for his insensitivity. He picked Lily up and lay her down on his bed. The boys gathered around.

After a few minutes, Lily came out of her shock and opened her eyes.

"What happened?" she asked.

The guys let out gasps of air. They were so worried... It would be their fault if anything had happened to Lily, and that would not be good.

"You didn't react well to the potion." Said Remus.

"It hurts." Lily replied.

"So now that everyone's ok," said Peter, "what do we do now?"

"Are you ready to go on, Lily?" asked James, "It might hurt more."

Lily nodded. She was serious about this whole thing. She would go through terrible pain to do this for her new friends.

"You are supposed to wait at least 5 minutes for the potion to settle and get into you're veins, and we did. And then close your eyes and concentrate." Said Sirius.

"You shouldn't do it at the same time." Said Remus, "That way if someone starts hurting, we can comfort them, and not have four people in mass pain at the same time."

"So who wants to go first?" asked Sirius.

There was a silence in the room. No one wanted to be first to experience whatever was going to happen.

"I'll go." Said Lily quietly.

"No!" exclaimed all the boys at once.

"You can't go first Lily," Said Peter, "The way you took the potion, we don't know how you will react to this, so you should definitely not go first."

"I'll go first." Stated James.

The four others gathered around in a circle around James.

He closed his eyes, and sat down. After about a minute, James cried out in pain.

The boys had put a soundproof spell on the room so any sound in the room could not be heard outside of this room unless you wanted it to be heard.

He stretched out and started to change. His hair grew shorter, and started to grow all over his clothes. Slowly, his arms grew longer, and his legs thinned out. His nose and mouth bulged out to form a muzzle. All in all, he looked like a deer.

The deer, formerly know as James, stood up, and two big antlers shot out of his head.

The four humans gasped.

James was a stag.

Beautiful…

He walked over to them.

"Are you ok James?" Lily whispered.

The stag nodded its head and playfully nudged her.

She reached out her hand to touch the gleaming brown coat. It was soft... Softer than cotton. Kind of like a bunny kind of soft.

He then stepped back and started to retransform. It took about a minute to fully return to his human form.

"The book says that if we practice a lot we will eventually get to where it will take us a second to transform." He said.

"Jamie!" exclaimed Sirius. "Who cares about that right now? You were a stag! What was it like? How did it feel?"

"Oh that; It felt good actually. All except for the changing part. Now that hurt like hell."

"I'll go next." Announced Sirius.

His transformation went pretty much the same as James', except when his morphing was done, he was a huge black dog. Kind of like a Muggle's black lab mixed with a chocolate lab, but much bigger and with longer hair. More like a wizard dog.

Next, Peter.

To everyone's surprise, Peter grew smaller. When he was finished, Peter was a rat. Just a gray rat with no visible markings.

Peter transformed back quickly. He was embarrassed that he wasn't a magnificent creature like James, or something big and powerful looking like Sirius. The others told Peter that he looked good, and that he shouldn't worry about it.

Then they all looked towards Lily. What would she be?

Sirius tried to lighten the mood.

"What if she turned into a cat? The it would be dog chases cat chases rat!"

Peter blushed while the others chuckled, and Lily stepped into the circle of boys. She at down and closed her eyes when she automatically felt pain in her skin. It felt all sharp and prickly. Like she had pins pricking her all over.

Fur grew from those pricks. Her ears grew shaggy and longer. Lily shrunk a bit, her legs and arms getting thinner as well. Her nose bulged out, and she felt a tail shoot out of her rear. The pain stopped; he was done changing.

Lily turned to James.

"You're a golden retriever." He said.

Before anyone could say anything else, a small horn grew out from Lily's forehead.

Lily saw the boys looking at her odd, and tilted her head in a question kind of way.

Remus knelt down and felt Lily's horn. It looked exactly like a unicorn's.

"Change back Lily," Said Peter.

Lily changed.

"What was wrong?" asked Lily.

"You had a horn. Just like a unicorn." Sirius informed her.

Lily looked startled. Why would she have a horn?

James' eyes lit up.

"Lily!" he exclaimed, "I read in the book that very rarely someone can change into two animals, and they kind of combine. I know that's kind of messed up, but maybe you can turn into something with a horn too! Come on! Change again. This is exciting."

Lily started to change again. But this time, instead of shrinking, she grew. Her arms and legs grew and thinned out a bit. Lily's neck stretched as fur grew. She felt a horn shoot out from her forehead again, but her tail was like before shaggy and coarse. Along her neck, she could feel hair growing.

She shook her head and gave a little whinny. Lily could tell; she was a unicorn.

Peter laughed. "You have a dog's tail."

So that's why her tail wasn't long and stringy…

Lily then transformed back to a human.

"That was so cool!" she exclaimed.

"So what else did it say in the book about people who can change into two things?" asked Remus.

"You can change into either animal by concentrating on one of them. That's pretty much all it says about that since like only two people have ever been like that in history." Explained James.

Remus let out a sigh. "I'm glad that's over with."

"We need new names!" exclaimed Sirius, "Just around us though. No one else can know what our names are… We can use them like code names!"

"Yeah!" agreed James. "And they should have something to do with our animal forms!"

"Rose can be Moony!" exclaimed Sirius.

"Okay." Agreed Remus. "That fits."

"I'll be Prongs." Said James.

"I'm Padfoot!" Sirius.

"What am I gonna be?" asked Peter.

"Hmm..." Thought James, "I know Polly! You can be Wormtail!"

"Oh... Okay."

They all looked at Lily. What would she be?

"Tails!" exclaimed James. "It's gotta be Tails. You look so hilarious as a unicorn with a dog tail."

"Sure." Relented Lily. She thought it would look funny to see a unicorn that had a different kind of tail than usual.

"So that's cool," Said Sirius. "But remember, we can't say the names in front of ANYONE!"

Lily chuckled.

"So it is." She said, "Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs, and Tails."