Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Lily and James or any other characters you may recognize throughout this story. I also don't own the wizarding world or basically anything else you recognize from the Harry Potter series. That all belongs to the wonderful goddess of writing, J.K. Rowling. So don't sue me!

A/N: Yay! People are reading this, and they like it! :)

Fantome: Thanks for the review! I'm glad you liked how the boys got along when they were plotting together. I didn't know if it was very realistic, but thought it was at least funny. And young Lestrange is coming up next chapter. He's in my other story, but not very much, so I'm not sure how I'm going to characterize him, but hopefully it will work out okay. Hope you like this chapter.

LauraKay: Hilarious? Yay! I'm not usually very good at that whole comedy thing, so I'm glad you're enjoying it. Denying the hatred is always rather funny though, isn't it? Yeah, these chapters are going to be short, because not much happens, but at least their sweet. This one hopefully has some sweetness and some comedy in it too!

Rebecca: Yeah, more HP fiction! Yay! I'm glad you liked Severus' and Sirius' chapter and hopefully you like this one too. James and Lily will show up in a couple chapters too, so I know you'll like that!

Chprincess: Girl Scout Meeting! *snicker* kidding! That's cool, I was never a girl scout myself, but a few of my friends were. Anyway . . . yeah, I had to add that they still hated each other in the end, because I was beginning to worry myself! :)

Milky Way Bar: Cute name! I'm glad you like it, and look I updated soon!

Rinnington: Ooh, long review! :) Yeah, I didn't want to put Alice and Rabastan together, because I LOVE Alice so much and hate him so much, but I really wanted to put Rabastan with the sweetest person, and that's Alice. I have my reasons, don't worry. As for Alice and Amelia, they are main characters in my other fic and that's why they're in this. As for so many people from the books being in the same year, there's a simple explanation for that, I hate OCs. I know Amelia is probably a few years older than Lily and the others, but I needed another female character, so I chose her. Every wizard character in my stories are characters mentioned in canon at some point or another, even if only in passing. I do have a couple of muggle OCs, but that's because there aren't really any muggles in canon. But yeah, I have lots of other characters in different years also, but this story is just focused on this year of students. Anyway, this chapter is Dung and Peter, and I swear nothing bad will happen to Alice in the next chapter. (I love Neville too, and I really liked your explanation for why you don't like Snape, Neville is always in the back of my mind when I'm writing him, I just try to convince myself that JKR will explain to us why he's so mean to Neville at some point.) Oh, and I like Remus a lot, but I always feel iffy on his characterization, but hopefully I'll do him justice in this and my other fics. Wow, long reply! Hope you like this chapter.

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Chapter 3: Peter and Mundungus

"Well at least you can't steal my wand," Peter muttered as Dumbledore apparated away with both boys' wands.

"Hmm?" Dung asked. He hadn't been listening. He was too busy eyeing Peter's bag.

"Nothing. And stop looking at my bag like that! Why did I have to get paired up with you?" Peter sighed, drawing his bag close to his chest.

"Because that goblet thing randomly put us together. How much do you think that goblet thing is worth anyway? I bet I could get quite a few galleons for it if I was able to nick it."

Peter rolled his eyes and looked around the clearing they had found. He looked back down at the map and said, "Do you think this is the right place? According to this map Snivellus and Sirius are a few campsites to the East of us, James and Lily are directly to the North of us, gee, I hope they got their wands taken away too, otherwise we'll be kept awake all night by the flashes of curses . . . "

Peter was cut off as Dung took the map from his hands. "Where are Amelia and that Lupin fellow staying. I'm not very happy about that arrangement."

Peter looked at Dung, surprised. He had never really thought Dung really cared about Amelia. She had been there for them after Dung's parents had been murdered and that probably brought them closer, but the two of them together just didn't make any sense to Peter. But Remus and Amelia . . . that made sense. Of course, Peter was slightly biased toward his friend.

"I think they're a couple campsites West of us," Peter said snatching the map back from Dung, who looked slightly annoyed, much to Peter's satisfaction, "What? Don't like it when someone steals something from you?"

Dung didn't know whether Peter was referring to the map or to his girlfriend, but either way, that comment didn't make him very happy.

"Listen Pettigrew, I know your buddy Remus has a little crush on Amelia, and I know she used to have a little crush on him, excuse me if I'm a little worried about what may happen between them. I don't want to lose Amelia, I already lost . . . I just don't want to lose her, okay?"

Peter didn't say anything and began pulling out the tent. He had never put a tent together the muggle way, and he figured this would take a while.

"Hey Dung, do you have any idea how to put one of these things together?" Peter said, holding up the cloth and poles after about ten minutes of trying to fit pieces together that just did not want to cooperate.

Dung looked up from the fire he had been trying to start and to Peter's complete surprise, smiled. "Yeah. My dad and I used to go camping all the time, the muggle way. He was muggleborn, you know."

"Yeah, I know," Peter said, not really sure what to say. He had never been close to Dung and had never even heard him talk about his parents before. After they had been killed by Death Eaters, the Hufflepuff had become even more withdrawn than he had been before. In fact, Peter couldn't recall a time where he saw Dung talking to anyone besides Amelia, well unless he was convincing them that they had merely lost their possessions, and he had not stolen them.

Dung quietly worked on the tent, while Peter watched, debating whether or not he wanted to really have a conversation with the boy who he had come to dislike so much.

"Do you miss them?" Peter finally asked.

Dung paused for a moment and without looking up said, "All the time. Mum especially. She was the nicest person you could ever know. Even when I would always get in trouble for stealing things, she still loved me. I mean she'd yell at me plenty, but afterwards she would give me a hug and tell me that she loved me. Now that she and Dad are gone, Amelia is the only one who loves me, and I'm not even sure about her most of the time."

Peter stared wide eyed at Dung, who finally turned around, eyes equally wide, as if only now realizing that Peter had actually been listening during that little confession.

"Dung . . . I never really . . . I'm sure Amelia cares about you a lot."

"Listen, let's just pretend I never said all that. I don't know what got into me. I'd obliviate you if I had my wand . . . and if I knew how to obliviate . . . you know what I mean. Just, don't talk about what I just said. Ever. Okay?"

Peter nodded and promised not to say anything to anyone. Then he turned his head as he heard a rustling in the bushes.

"Did you hear that?" Peter said, his voice wavering just a little.

"Yeah . . . you don't think there are wild animals out here do you? I mean Dumbledore wouldn't leave us defenseless if there was anything that could hurt us, would he?" Dung said, eyeing the fire he hadn't been able to start, wishing he had some flames to scare away whatever was coming.

"Well, he is a little mad, but I don't think he's so out of it that he would put his students in danger . . . would he?" Peter said.

"Honestly Pete, show a little more spine!" Sirius said grinning while he and Severus emerged from the bushes.

"Your little friend there looked like he was about to wet himself," Severus smirked.

"Watch it grease-boy. Just because we have a temporary truce doesn't mean I won't hex you to next Sunday when I get a wand if you insult my friends," Sirius said glaring at Severus.

"Truce? Why do you guys have a truce?" Peter asked amused to see Sirius and Severus within five feet of each other and not attempting to injure one another.

"We're hunting for wands!" Sirius said grinning gleefully.

"Wands? So Dumbledore took yours, too? Don't you think he would take everyone else's also?" Dung said.

"Possibly, but we figured if anyone would still have their wands it would be your girl and Lupin. They're both rule-followers," Severus said eyeing Dung with distaste.

"Wait, you're going to steal your friend's wand?" Dung asked looking at Sirius strangely.

"Yeah, hey!" Sirius said as a thought dawned on him, "You're good at nicking things, want to help?"

"You want me to steal my girlfriend's wand?" Dung said.

"Well, I mean, you don't have to if you don't want to, I just figured . . . "

"What are you talking about? It sounds excellent. I can't get this fire started without a wand and I'm not eating cold food. Let's go," Dung said, walking in the direction of Amelia and Remus' campsite.

Sirius, Severus, and Peter shrugged and followed the Hufflepuff.

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A/N: Okay, so every time I write more if this I change my mind on how it will be, but I'm pretty sure I got it now. There will only be one chapter for each pair, and I think you can see the general idea I'm heading for. I wasn't as excited about writing this pair, but hopefully it turned out okay. I know Dung doesn't really seem that much in character, but just know that his parents died fairly recently, so he's a little emotionally vulnerable. Anyway, next up I'm thinking of having Alice and Rabastan, then probably Lily and James, then ending with Amelia and Remus. I may also have a little wrap up chapter. Anyway now that you've read, don't forget to review!