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Set at a time at Hogwarts when James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew were about seventeen.

This is a fantasy story which could have happened, but is not really to do with any of the HP series, so forgive me if I make a mistake about the facts here or there

CHAPTER 1

 James listened carefully. Where was he? Had they caught him? Stopped him from crying out? James shuddered. 

What if they had made him look like - dare he think it - one of them?! There was a sudden outburst of screams - female voices.  Relief swept over James. Thank god, he'd done it!

He made sure they wouldn't see him, and looked carefully round the corner of the wall to the end of the corridor.  

Seconds later, Sirius came tearing round that corner, running as fast as humanly possible, but laughing anyway.

He ran up to James and threw the invisibility cloak over both of them. They held their breath as about twelve girls ran past in hot pursuit of - or what they thought was - Sirius. Their plan had worked; well it wasn't so much a plan as an idea to freak out the girls. They walked towards tower. James took the cloak and stuffed it in his bag. Sirius took a large spider out of his pocket and transfigured it back into a quill. James glanced out of an upper window and saw - who else - Lily Evans, the girl of his dreams.

 But she hated him... Well, used to... That was several years ago... "Prongs. Prongs! JAMES!" Sirius yelled. James snapped out of his daydream. "What?!" he said, a bit more snappily than he meant. Sirius rolled his eyes and indicated Lily with a nod of his head, standing at the entrance to Gryffindor tower. She smiled at him, a favour which James returned. "Hi." she said quietly. It must have been strange for her to talk to him without having to yell.

 James stood up and walked over to her. He looked over his shoulder at Sirius and cleared his throat loudly. Sirius smiled and shook his head as he walked towards the boys' dormitories. There was silence for several seconds, but James didn't take his eyes off Lily once. "So - where shall we go?" said Lily finally. James loved hearing her speak. He sighed. "How about a walk round the quidditch pitch?" this may have sounded unromantic to the more uninformed person, but it was late summer, and they could easily see the sun set behind Hogwarts if they did go on James's venture.  "Of course, I'd love to." she said, more quietly than she had spoken before. She clasped her hand in James's and they walked together out of Gyffindor tower.  "Ah, young love, how romantic..." said the fat lady. James looked back and narrowed his eyes at her. He wasn't into romance, but - he had to admit - there was something nice about just walking along with Lily, as the  sky began to turn a faint pinkish - gold.

 When they reached the quidditch pitch, James noticed something, Lily was leaning on him. Surely this wasn't the girl who used to be forever insulting him and telling him how conceited and egotistic he was. But it was, and James was happy.

But another person did not share his joy. Severus Snape looked on in anger and disgust. His enemy had got the girl, while he, Severus Snape, had been shoved aside. And for what? A show off? An arrogant, self-promoting, unjust piece of congealed toad vomit?

Severus felt rage boil up inside him. The girl was a mudblood, that was true, but she was beautiful, intelligent and, above all, tried to  protect what was right. How did she even consider James before him?

 The sun was beginning to set, Sirius looked out over the grounds. He saw Lily and James watching the sunset, sitting on the dry, green grass. His stomach gave an uncomfortable jolt. This wasn't right; Sirius had to tell James how he felt before his relationship with Lily developed too far...

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