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Title: You Wish!

Author: Mstar

Rating: G

Chapter: 4

Summery: To Lily Evans, James Potter was the most arrogant jerk in all of eternity. Just her luck that James had had a crush on her ever since 1st year. Now it was their 7th year at Hogwarts and James' last chance to win Lily's heart.

AN~ This story starts during the summer before their 7th year. If some of the character's seem familiar but aren't in the original 5 Harry Potter books, it's because they're my own creations and I've used them in other fics. Either that or you actually know them, because some of the characters are based on people I know, names and all. '.....' denotes thought. ***********************************************************

Lily woke up for the 5th time that night. All night she had been drifting in and out of sleep. She looked at her watch, which read: 5:30 AM. 'Thank goodness it's a Saturday...' Lily got up and walked into the common room, where a fire was still burning. 'Why do I feel like I've done something wrong?' Lily looked out 1 of the windows. Gryffindor tower had the best view. 'How beautiful, a full moon.' Suddenly the portrait whole opened and in walked...

James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew stepped into the common room. They always had to leave Remus; Madam Pomphrey would escort him back to the castle after he was normal, you know, not a monster. James suddenly stopped. He put his hand out to stop Sirius and Peter's chatter. Lily Evans was in the common room, looking strait at them.

"What are y'all doing at this hour?" she said curiously. She had noticed that they were still in their school robes from yesterday. "Ummmmm," Sirius fished around for some excuse. "Well what are YOU doing up?" he questioned instead. Lily replied calmly, "I'm perfectly entitled to be up at this hour in the House common room. I couldn't sleep. YOU on the other hand, were obviously roaming the school after curfew, a COMPLETELY different story." The 3 boys looked at each other; they knew Lily was right.

"Lily," James pleaded. "PLEASE don't mention this to anyone. It's important that you don't." Lily looked out the window once again. 'Is that Remus and Madam Pomphrey? Coming from the Whomping Willow? This is TOO weird.' "I'm curious," she started. "I've noticed y'all out at night, several times before, and I haven't said a word. And are my eyes deceiving me, or did I just see Remus and Madam Pomphrey coming in off the grounds? What's up?" The boys knew there was no way out. They had to tell her. "If you promise you won't tell, we'll tell you part of it. See, it's a long and rather complicated story," James replied nervously. "I haven't told Mary and Jessi even, of you're late night wonderings. You can trust me," Lily answered them.

James let out a sigh of relief. "I guess the 1st place to start would be to show you..." Lily raised an eyebrow and James nodded to his friends. Lily gasped as James, Sirius, and Peter, simultaneously morphed into a stag, dog, and rat. "Y-you're Animagi?!" she stuttered. The 3 boys changed back into humans and Sirius replied, "Yes, and-," there he hesitated and looked at James, who nodded. "And Remus is a werewolf." Lily's eyes went wide and she put her hands over her mouth. James continued where Sirius left off, saying, "We couldn't visit him as humans, so we became Animagi because werewolves are only a danger to humans and that's where we got our nicknames for each other: Remus is Moony, Peter is Wormtail, Sirius is Padfoot, and I'm Prongs." Lily was still rather wide-eyed, but she nodded her head in understanding. So you won't tell?" Peter asked impatiently. "I won't," she whispered. "I promise."

Lily didn't go back to bed. Instead, she sat up in the girl's dormitory, mulling everything over. 'I know they didn't tell me everything, but they did explain quite a bit...' Around 8 o'clock, Lily went down to Great Hall for breakfast. She past the Marauders, but didn't say anything, although James gave her his usual wink. Next week, Gryffindor had a Quidditch match against Ravenclaw. Lily was glad she wouldn't have to face Harrison in it, being that she was a Chaser and he was a Seeker. Lily had noticed something funny though, James had stop hexing Harrison every time he got the chance. He was also working everybody a lot harder than usual during practice. 'Weird.'

The following week was pretty uneventful. The match against Ravenclaw was on Saturday, which dawned bright and clear. And cold too (It's December, what do you expect?). On the Monday following the match, school would be let out for Christmas break. The Gryffindor team plus Jessi, Remus, and Peter got up together and went down to eat breakfast. The match started at 9, so everyone was up earlier than usual on a Saturday. At 8:45, the team went down to the field. Remus and Peter wished them luck, while Jessi followed the team because she'd have to be there soon anyway because she was the commentator.

As the team changed into their Quidditch robes, they heard the rest of the school spill out onto the grounds. Shortly after, they left the locker rooms, greeted by a roar of applause from the Gryffindor supporters. "Welcome to another Quidditch match!!!" they heard Jessi's magically magnified voice boom. "Here comes the Gryffindor team: Potter, Evans, Nease, Glade, Longbottom, Wattel, and Black!!!" Once again the Gryffindor supporters cheered. "And here's Ravenclaw: Craft, Farris, Harden, Kensith, Herring, Reardon, and Gray!!!"

The teams gathered in the center of the field and Madam Hooch stepped forward. "Captains, shake hands." James and Harrison stepped forward and shook hands. "Remember the deal," James muttered out of the corner of his mouth. Harrison nodded curtly. Madam Hooch let out the Snitch and Bludgers. She threw the Quaffle into the air and blew her whistle. "And they're off!!!" Jessi shouted. "Gryffindor in possession, Evans racing forward. She passes the Quaffle to Nease who passes it to Glade. Ooooooh! That's gotta hurt! Glade drops the Quaffle but Nease catches. She's racing up the field, dodges a Bludger, dunks under Farris; can she beat the Ravenclaw Keeper, Gray? GRYFFINDOR SCORES!!!" The section of the stands that was almost solid scarlet erupted with cheers.

"Ravenclaw takes possession; Kensith passes the Quaffle to Harden. Ouch! Nice Bludger work by Longbottom- Evans seizes the Quaffle. She's tearing up the field; Lily that's a Bludger! Darn it! Ravenclaw takes possession, Sirius, here comes Farris! Ravenclaw scores!" Jessi exclaimed half heartedly. That's when James saw it- the Snitch. It was fluttering near the stands on Gryffindor's end of the field. James tore after it, and so did Harrison, not far behind. The 2 Seekers were now even with each other. The Snitch was at least a yard away... the Seekers both had their arms out, trying to catch the golden ball. James' mind was racing. 'I've GOT to beat him!!!' James lifted both hands off his broom. To his disappointment Harrison did the same. The Seekers were reaching for the Snitch with 1 hand while trying to knock their opponent off course with the other. Both Seekers fell off their brooms about a foot off the ground and the Snitch was...

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