-frighteningly pokes her head around computer screen- Ok, so please here me out before you start throwing rotten tomatoes and cabbages my way! I'm REALLY sorry I haven't updated for ages! I know it's been like three months! I've just been so busy, and then I went through this period of writers block, I was nearly kicking myself for the inspiration to write! But don't worry, it's all good now, and I'm right back on track and know exactly what's going to be happening in the next couple of chapters. So please keep reading! You all rock!

Mystical Dreams

Chapter 14: The evil schemes of Lily R. Evans

"The Augurey originates in Britain and Ireland and is a greenish black bird that has a rather sorrowful appearance" Professor Cornfickle said excitedly, pointing to a picture of the bird at the front of the classroom.

"It is very shy, and rather hard to find, that's why I couldn't show you it in its physical state" she stated, her puffy hair bouncing around her glowing face with exaggerated happiness.

It was the second week back at school after the Christmas holidays and the usual student routine had finally sunken back into the castle. Lessons continued as always in their original boring state as the 6th years got drilled about their ever approaching NEWT's the next year.

Lily looked on uninterestingly, for some reason she couldn't concentrate today, and she had already learnt about this creature in third year. This professors enthusiasm was enough to make the students sick thank Merlin she was only a substitute Professor.

Suddenly, an unexpected paper airplane flew over a few of the other students heads to land gracefully on her desk.

Lily looked around nervously to see if anyone had noticed it, but everyone was either staring indifferently at their desks or gazing off into space, so she took the piece of paper and unfolded it carefully, determined not to make too much noise.

She stared down at thick, cursive writing and skimmed over the words quickly.

Lily.

Come with me to Hogsmeade on the weekend.

James.

Lily made a derisive noise in the back of her throat and rolled her eyes before reply with a quick no and sending it flying back underneath the rows to the back row where the marauders sat.

James caught the note mid-flight and none too deflated, replied with easy grace, why not?

Before he could send the airplane back familiar curly writing started to appear on the paper and James smiled, Lily had put a transferring charm on it, he and Sirius had used that charm on countless occasions when they had been put in separate detentions before they had discovered the two-way mirrors.

Because you have asked me at least five thousand times now and all those times the answer is no, why would I break the tradition now?

So there's no real reason?

Yes! The reason is, Potter, that I have never been attracted to someone as arrogant and egotistical as you and I never will be.

Thank you.

That's nothing to take pride in.

Yes, but obviously you notice it, so it must be a personality worth keeping.

Do you live just to make my life a living hell?

No, I live to make it interesting.

In the future, I suggest for the well being of your next girlfriend that you don't practically use 'you're boring' as a pick up line.

I'm not saying you're boring.

Then what are you saying?

That you would be at a total loss without me.

I'm sure.

James paused before he wrote back, his gleeful grin twisting into a thoughtful expression.

It would be something different. Come on, you hardly even know me.

Oh I know you, I've known you since you were eleven and you've always been the same annoying, arrogant git that you are now.

But it would be something spontaneous. Come on Lily, seek some adventure.

I'm perfectly content where I stand thank you.

Don't think I don't know how curious you can be, I saw you at Christmas when we were going through that secret passage, and your eyes were twinkling like mad!

They were not!

James laughed; he knew he'd caught her.

Fine, just go as friends?

Lily stared down at her parchment, dumbfounded. Friends? She thought thunderstruck; James Potter wanted her to be his friend?

You want us to be friends? She replied, but almost kicked herself silly as she did so.

Well I'd rather be your boyfriend but since you're not so keen on that, we can work on it.

Lily rolled her eyes and thought for a while. Soon a twisted plan started to form in her head, it was cruel, yes, but since when had James been nice to her?

Alright. But I'll only go if you can stay out of trouble from a teacher for a whole week.

James grinned.

Easy.

And you cannot get in a fight with Severus Snape.

What?!

That's the condition Potter.

Fine. What's the catch?

James new there'd be one, with Lily, there was always more then one twist.

You aren't allowed to tell Remus, Sirius or Peter what's going on, actually, don't tell anyone, it's just between you and me.

Awe, no fare!

Lily smiled evilly.

It pays to have the prettiest girl in school.

Pff! And you call me arrogant.

No, I'm just self-assured.

Just at that moment the bell rung and Lily quickly scribbled onto the parchment.

So it's a deal?

Ok so no getting into trouble from teachers, no telling anyone, and no insulting Snivellus Physically, verbally or emotionally . . . wait! Snivellus . . .that's degrading. Ok, Snape.

Very good!

Alright, it's a deal.

Ok, no fighting, have fun!!

Sure.

"Hey Prongsy, you writing love letters again? I thought you gave up on all that romantic crap" Sirius said teasingly as he slapped James on the back.

James quickly scrunched up the piece of parchment and shoved it in his bag, not bothering to reply to Sirius' remark; he had bigger fish to fry now.

"Come on, let's get to lunch, I'm starving" he said, trying to hurry out of the classroom but just as he placed one foot out the door he heard the exact voice he had hoped not to.

"Mr. Potter may I have a word?" Professor Cornfickle requested.

James cringed. Dammit. Lily was still in the room, he could just imagine her face right now; smirking with delight.

However, James fixed one of his prized charming smiles on his face and swept around to face his Care of Magical Creatures substitute Professor.

"Yes Professor?" he asked innocently (if that's entirely possible)

"I can't seem to find your essay on the Augurey, you did do it? Didn't you?"

"Of course I did Professor," James replied with a completely fake worried frown. "I spent a while on it actually, I thought seeing as I hadn't done too well in the last essay (hadn't attempted) I would make up for it with this one, I found the Augurey to be absolutely fascinating."

At the back of the room an almost inaudible grunt could be heard that then abruptly turned into a hacking cough. Little did Sirius know that James actually did find it fairly interesting. James tried to suppress a smirk.

"Oh James, I am so sorry, I seem to have lost it, did you keep an extra copy of the essay."

"Oh no Mam, I'm sorry I didn't, I mean it was sooooo long. Exactly how long was it Remus?"

Remus seemed to be calculating in his head, a thoughtful expression on his face, "At least ten rolls James, it could have been eleven I'm not entirely sure."

Lily gagged, how gullible was this teacher?

"If you'd like Professor, I could briefly summarize my essay for you and tell you now."

"That would be wonderful James!"

Lily smirked in triumph; there was no way he was going to pull this one off. Sirius gaped at the stupidity of what his friend had just got himself into, and even Peter looked somewhat stunned.

James merely cleared his throat and began without preamble;

"The Augurey also known as the Irish Phoenix is classified by the Ministry of Magic as a grade two creature, meaning that it is relatively harmless and can possibly be domesticated. As you have already mentioned this lesson Professor, the Augurey is a native bird of Britain and Ireland. It appears as a thin and mournful looking bird, somewhat like a small and underfed vulture and is a greenish black. It is a shy bird and generally prefers to keep their own company; it desires to nest in bramble and thorn rather then trees and the more comfortable bushes. Its diet consists of large insects and fairies. It only flying in heavy rain and otherwise remaining hidden in its tear – shaped nest" he said as if reading out of a text book.

"The characteristic that sets this amazing bird apart from all other birds is the distinctive low and throbbing cry, which was once believed to foretell death. In earlier times wizards avoided their nests for fear of hearing that heart – rending sound, and more than one wizard is believed to have suffered a heart attack on passing a thicket and hearing an unseen Augurey wail. This can be compared to the mystery of the Grim, where in recent times such occurrences as the heart failure of a person has had more to do with the superstition than the actual creature"

"One case of this is the legendary occurrence of 'Uric the Oddball' who is known to have slept in a room containing no fewer the fifty pet Augureys. During one particular wet winter, Uric became convinced that he had died, due to the continual wailing of his pets and he then attempted to walk through walls which is said to have led to a concussion of ten days duration"

"However it has been realized that an Augurey merely sings at the approach of rain. One of the more common uses of this bird is a home weather forecaster."

At the end of this speech the whole of the room was plunged into a stunned silence. James looked around taking in the effect he had, had on them and had to hold back a laugh.

"Oh and the feathers are completely useless as quills as they repel ink." He added just for good measure.

Professor Cornfickle simply beamed at him. Clapping her hands in delight as her face burst into an enormous smile.

"That has to be the best oral explanation of any animal that I have ever heard! One hundred and twenty percent and thirty points to Gryffindor!"

James bowed extravagantly as Peter spurted red roses (or what were supposed to be red roses) from his wand to land at his fellow marauders feet.

Lily gaped openly at him as Sirius' expression bordered between open disgust and utter bewilderment.

"How did he- did you just?- what tha?!" Lily spluttered.

Sirius shook his head and sat down in a chair.

"This is too much. I can't handle this"

Remus just laughed as James declared that it was his pleasure and walked over to Lily to lightly shove her jaw back into place.

"Honestly Evans, didn't your mother ever teach you manners" he scolded, "I know I'm good looking but you don't have to gawk"

He then proceeded to walk out the door with no more further ado.

The marauders and Lily ran to catch up to him, Lily fuming.

"Why-I can't believe-you're such an insolent pig!" she managed to splutter.

"Yes, but an intelligent insolent pig" he said evenly.

Sirius had by now, overcome his sense of shock and slapped James on the back.

"Mate, I didn't think you'd pull that off, but that's one of the best marauder stunts in history!"

James beamed as he mussed up his hair.

As they walked into the great hall Lily swiftly turned around to meet James in the eye.

"I'm sure you thought that was spectacular" she sniffed, "but just wait Potter, there'll be plenty more Professors this week, and don't forget about your greasy haired friend. . ." she said smiling.

James smirked, "I'm up for a fight"

Lily winked at him and turned around to walk over to a beckoning Miria sitting at the Gryffindor table.

"You know, she's a little scary" Peter commented.

"A little loony more like it" Sirius stated.

The four of them walked over to the table and sat down next to Ian and Marcus to discuss James' new tremendous bluff.

Remus walked down the unusually quiet halls of Hogwarts with a new-found book clutched in his fingers as if some rare golden treasure. It was dinnertime, and rightfully speaking he was supposed to be sitting at the Gryffindor table, eating with his fellow housemates, but something strange had crossed his mind as he sat, bored to death in Professor Binns' History of magic class; an idea of some sought.

Ever since the incident at Christmas dinner, he had been on a bit of an edge about the marauders' explorations at full moon, and even though it had been over a couple of weeks since, and the headmaster hadn't mentioned anything, Remus still thought he needed to do something about their monthly escapades invisibility wise. And that was what he had the book for, 'Ploogun's book of disguisable disguises'.

Remus didn't feel very hungry (which was a rare occasion since feeding a werewolf was never any mean feat) so he decided to detour and take the long route to the common room just to ponder on things for a while; something he generally did a lot.

As Remus walked into the common room a half hour later he was jerked out of his reverie abruptly as an all too familiar voice shouted gleefully at the top of their lungs.

"BULLSHIT!!"

Sirius was sitting in a tight circle of first years with James and Peter by his side and a deal of cards in his hand, looking positively evil.

A disgruntled looking first year boy picked up the stack of cards currently placed in the middle of the circle and glared at him.

Remus shook his head, but couldn't help smiling at his friends' childish pleasure. 'Bullshit' was one of the marauders' favourite card games to teach the new first years, as the fowl language was sure to drive McGonagall up the wall.

James' poker face was completely impassive as his turn came around and he clearly announced that he had three kings.

Remus snuck up behind him and glimpsed at the actual three of spades, five of hearts and Jack he was about to put down on the new pile and mouthed bullshit behind his friends back so the other players could see.

"Bullshit!" and excited looking blond girl squeaked and James' mask fell abruptly to reveal a face of utter surprise; he'd never been caught at this game before.

"What? How did you-?"

He immediately span around to find Remus placing his bag on one of the lounges, his backed turned to him.

"Moony you can be extremely Slytherin-ish at times, did you know that?" he said slyly.

"One of my hidden talents" Remus replied simply.

"I need to talk to you guys when you're done" he added.

Sirius quickly whipped up the cards into a stack with his wand and turned around to face him.

"We're done" he chimed.

The first years whined their complaint.

"Oh my! I think I just saw Professor McGonagall!" Sirius exclaimed.

All the first years fled from the circle they were sitting in and over to separate places in the common room, afraid their head of house would give them all detentions again.

Sirius chuckled, "Ahhh, the simple pleasures in life"

"What'd you do that for? I was almost winning!" Peter complained.

"And I was winning" James put in.

"Exactly my point" Sirius stated. "Now, Moony, what's this important news? You definitely took you time in the library"

"We had better go up to the dorm, just to be safe" Remus said as he looked around at the now quietly working students.

They followed him up the stairs and into their messy room.

Remus sat on a pile of his clean robes as the other flopped down near him.

All eyes focused on Remus as he picked up 'Ploogun's book of disguisable disguises'.

"Well I've been thinking. . ." he started.

"Wow! That's not normal for you!" Peter commented.

James and Sirius smirked, but Remus ignored his friends reply and started explaining.

"I was thinking, that maybe we should be a bit more inconspicuous when we go wandering around at full moon, I mean, I know you guys use the invisibility cloak when you follow me out to the whomping willow" he said, "But we're all galloping around as animals on the grounds with only the darkness to cover for us when we transform, and even then, the full moon's pretty bright"

"Mmm, so what you got in mind?" James asked.

Remus flipped through the book until he came to a page with pictures of a moving witch turning invisible.

"The Disillusionment charm" he said as he showed them all the page.

"It kind of works like a chameleon" he explained. "Once the spell's performed you take the colour of the background you're standing in front of"

"Ok, but how are we all supposed to do the charm on each other when we're animals?" Sirius asked, "I mean, James could do it on me when I'm a dog and then on Pete, but how's he gonna do it on himself as a stag?"

"Well that's what we need to see; if you can do it to yourselves and then turn into animals and see if it still works"

"Right" James said, "Shall we try it then?"

"Somebody else can do mine" Peter piped up, "I don't trust myself"

"Wise thinking Wormtail" Sirius congratulated.

Remus took out his wand and his friends followed suit.

"It says its easier to do the spell on yourself" he said as his eyes skimmed the page, "There should be no harm in trying it Pete, we'll put you back if it gets mixed up" he said, looking over at his shorter friend.

Peter looked edgily over at Sirius, remembering the time his mistake had been used against him as bribery. But his fellow marauder looked like he had his mind on other things, so he took out his wand and nervously waited for Remus to continue.

"Well this spell doesn't seem to need words, you just have to tap your wand on your head and imagine that your body is slowly becoming numb and that each limb is experiencing a trickling feeling, like water being run over it" Remus clarified.

"Sounds simple" Sirius remarked.

"It's a bit like what we had to do to become animagi" commented James.

"Well, let's try it" Remus proposed.

All four boys rapped their wands on the top of their heads and closed their eyes in concentration as they tried to imagine their limbs becoming water-like.

One by one they all disappeared into the messy contents of their room.

"I did it!" Peter exclaimed.

"This is weird" Sirius whistled.

"It's nothing like being under my invisibility cloak"

"Ouch! That was my foot!"

"Sorry Remus, it's worse when I can't see where I am let alone where you are" Peter pouted.

"When I look really close I can see your bulky outline" Sirius joked.

"Hey! That's not nice! I'm a healthy size"

"So I'm unhealthy, that's not nice" Sirius retorted.

"Unhealthy in the brain" Remus muttered as he approached the book again. Unfortunately, James was heading the same way, and they both collided head first.

"Holy shit!"

"What tha?"

"James watch where you're going!"

"I am! I can't see at the best of times, and it doesn't help when you're a human chameleon!"

James fumbled around on the ground for his circular glasses that had fallen off of his nose.

Just at that moment Sirius stepped forward and there was a sickly crunch and snap that sounded very much like the breaking of glass.

"Uh-oh"

"Oh great!"

"Sirius, did I ever tell you that you're a prat?" James asked cynically.

"Yes, I believe you've mentioned that once or twice"

"Good because I'm going to tell you again- you're-"

"Oh both of you shut it, and let me figure out how to turn us back"

"And in the meantime I'll just sit around as blind as a bat" James sulked.

"You do that" Sirius mumbled.

"I will!"

"Ok!"

"Honestly! Will you two quit it!"

"Sorry Moony-pie, we didn't mean to get you upset" Sirius cooed.

"Oh please, spare me" Remus replied darkly, reading over the second paragraph again.

"Ok, so to turn back we have to tap ourselves on the head again and imagine the cold feeling exiting from our limbs, but before you do that, I want to see if it works in animagi form" Remus pondered.

"Ok!" Sirius exclaimed, and with no further-ado, morphed into a large black dog.

A bark rang through the dorm as he bounded about.

"Well I can't see him too well" Peter said.

"Neither can I" Remus affirmed, "Great! It looks like it works"

"Just to make sure, James, how about you try?"

"Whatever" James grumbled.

He did so, and like Sirius, still no one could see him.

"Sweet! Alright, you can turn back now" Remus called, and proceeded to become visible again.

The others took his lead and after a moment all were clearly visible again, except for James' eyesight.

"Where the hell are my glasses?"

Remus picked them up from where they lay on the ground, murmuring a quick repairo charm, and gave them back to his friend in one piece.

James quickly shoved them back on his face, muttering about not being able to find a clear eyesight charm.

"Ok, so do you think it'll work?" Remus asked.

"One problem" James pointed out, "How exactly are we going to do this charm on you?"

"Well I was thinking about that too, and I don't think it's a good idea to do it on me at all, since, if I sort of go crazy I need you guys to keep me in line and if you can't see me properly, then you won't be able to do that"

"Well how are we going to see each other?" Peter inquired, pointing towards himself, Sirius and James.

"Your not totally invisible with the charm on, you can still see a persons outline if you look for it, but yes, it will be hard to see and that's why I've been thinking of tagging you all"

"Tagging, that doesn't sound good" Sirius said uneasily.

"It's a charm" Remus explained, "It allows you to see one another when no one else can. I mean, I've heard of it, but I need to look into it a bit more so we can get the details about what to do"

"Ok then, but it better not be like that stupid conjourus charm you put on us last year, I couldn't blink for a week after that!" Sirius said irritably.

"Heh, sorry"

"So when is next full moon?" James asked.

"One week and three days. In other words, three days after Hogsmeade trip"

"Ok"

"So I'll look into that tagging charm and we can talk about it next meeting" Remus continued.

They all nodded and the room fell oddly silent.

"Merlin! I just had a revelation!" Sirius exclaimed.

Peter jumped at his friends' sudden outburst.

"Here we go" Remus muttered.

"You know how Lily said I could get up the stairs to the girls dorm's that night because I had pure intentions?"

They all nodded their understanding.

"And you know how many of the girls have cats that go up and down those dorm stairs?"

"Yeah, but what-?" Peter started.

"Padfoot your brilliant!" James exclaimed, "Pure genius!"

Sirius swept into a bow, his grey eyes twinkling with mischief.

Remus, however, looked on perplexedly.

"What does that have to do with cats?"

"The cats aren't just any cats Moony, some of them are male"

"So?" Peter questioned.

Sirius rolled his eyes as if what he was about to explain was the most obvious thing in the world.

"They're male cats; I can turn into a male dog, they don't get chucked down the stairs; I won't get chucked down the stairs, and finally, with the help of this new charm, they won't see me, but I'll see them"

"Oh no Sirius, no way!" Remus said sternly.

Sirius just grinned at his fellow marauder.

"Come on Rem, Prongs and I have been trying to work this out for years" Sirius pleaded.

"No Sirius" Remus said firmly, "I'm a prefect, I can't let you do it"

James rolled his eyes.

"That never stopped you any other time"

"Yeah, but every other time I knew you'd never get in, plus, the girls deserve their privacy" he justified.

"And you think we don't? They can walk on up here whenever they want!" Sirius retorted.

"Oh come off it! If any girl walked up here while you were having a shower or getting changed you'd welcome them in with open arms!"

Sirius opened his mouth to defend himself but shut it again, thinking pointedly over what Remus had said.

"Well yeah, but that's beside the point!"

Remus stared daggers at his friend as Sirius crossed his arms stubbornly.

"You're not going to stop me"

"Oh really?" Remus replied slyly, and with one quick movement, whipped out his wand, but before he could utter a spell Sirius was already fading into his surroundings.

Remus cursed under his breath and stood flat against the door, hoping to prevent the marauder from leaving, but a quick spell from James left the door- and Remus- swinging backwards into the hallway.

Sirius leapt over Remus, cackling evilly as he retreated down the stairs.

James quickly followed after him, but just as he was stepping over his fellow marauder, Remus grabbed him by the ankles, dragging him to the ground in front of him.

James moaned as he landed face first into the carpet.

Remus jumped to his feet and yanked him back into the dorm, snatching up his wand and locking the door.

James, recognizing defeat, slumped onto his bed with a sour face.

"Moony, I think you just created a disaster by teacher him that spell" Peter declared.

Remus ran a tired hand over his brow.

"Me too" he replied, exhausted.

James growled grumpily at them both.

"Remus, did I ever tell you that you're a prat?"

Meanwhile, Sirius was padding up the girls dormitory stairs, completely cheerful with himself.

The first place he headed was towards the sound of running water. His eyes nearly bulging out of his head, he was just about to place one paw over the threshold when someone bumped into him. He automatically backed away, looking up at the person who towered above him; the very person he wanted to see the least of; Lily Evans.

Lily whipped around, her scarlet dressing gown draping over his back.

"What the hell?" she murmured absently.

She grabbed at him before he could back away further and held onto his fur tight. Then, with a bewildered look upon her features, she pulled out her wand, and muttered a revealing charm.

Immediately Sirius felt the Disillusionment charm fall away and Lily shrieked in surprise as the black dog appeared in front of her, however, she didn't let go, instead, she dragged the struggling dog towards her dorm, shutting the door behind her.

Sirius turned around to find Miria standing in bright blue underwear in front of him. His eyes nearly bulged out of his head as she jumped ten feet at the sight of him.

"Dear God Lily! What the hell is a dog doing in here?!"

"I don't know, it had some sought of invisibility charm on it, it was hanging around the bathroom"

Suddenly something clicked within her mind and she looked down at Sirius' most obvious features; black hair and grey eyes.

Sirius struggled to prize himself free of her firm grip but couldn't manage to, and instead, looked up at her pleadingly, but the only look he received back was one of utter loathing. This wasn't good.

Lily then looked back up at her friend, still in her underwear, and yanked the dog around so he couldn't see her.

"Miria you might want to put some clothes on, we have a pervert in the room" she said acidly.

"What? What are you going on about?" She asked perplexedly.

Lily pointed towards the dog. "This is our dear friend Sirius Black, remember, he's animagi"

A dawning look of horror spread over Miria's face and she quickly shoved on the bathrobe hanging over her bed.

Miria walked over to him, her mind ticking over how he managed to get up here.

"Alright Black, here's the deal, you transform or we'll both blast you into oblivion" Lily said as she stuck out her wand so it pointed right between his eyes.

Miria did the same, her normally happy features angrily staring.

Sirius, knowing that Lily would surely stick to her word, reluctantly transformed. He quickly reached for the door handle, pulling out his wand with his other hand, but before he could turn the knob Lily had shoved him onto the floor, yanking his wand from his tight grip.

"You're sick! You pervert!" she screeched, "What the hell were you thinking!"

Sirius picked himself up off the ground as Lily stood menacingly in front of him, her wand jammed into his chest.

"You know, you're really quite attractive" Sirius commented, looking towards Miria.

Miria blushed a deep scarlet, but kept her wand on him all the same.

"Attractive! Attractive! You sleaze! You complete and utter wanker!"

"Lily don't be so jealous, just because I didn't say you were beautiful!" Sirius said, rolling his eyes.

"Don't give me that crap! You've drawn the line Sirius! I'm going to get McGonagall"

Sirius grabbed onto her arm just as she was about to turn around.

"Look, I know I'm a pervert, and a slight womanizer, but seriously Lily, you can't tell McGonagall" Sirius said urgently.

Miria raised her eyebrows at him.

"Slight?"

"And why can't I tell McGonagall?" Lily asked disbelievingly.

"Because if you tell her, she'll figure out that I'm animagi, and in case you can't remember, let me refresh you memory, I'm unregistered- that's illegal!"

"Why should I save your sorry ass?!"

"Because you wouldn't be saving mine; you'd be saving Remus'" he replied quietly.

Lily blinked, taking in what Sirius had said, and finally walked over and tossed herself onto her bed, giving out a frustrated groan.

"I hate you Black" she said with all sincerity.

"I know" Sirius replied dryly.

Suddenly he whipped Miria's wand out of her hands and bolted for the door.

Lily didn't flinch once as he reached for the handle, only to find it locked.

"Come on Black, you know me better then that!"

Sirius laughed bitterly, "What are you going to do, hold me hostage?"

"Until I think of a suitable punishment not in any way uncovering how you help Remus, yes, you could say that"

Sirius rolled his eyes and slumped down, leaning against the door to the room.

"Well then, we could be here for a while"

"Sirius I'd suggest that if you don't want the consequences to be as severe or embarrassing that you shut your mouth" Miria suggested lightly as she too went over to sit on her four poster.

"My dear, it is impossible to embarrass Sirius Black" he said smoothly.

"Oh don't worry, I have something else in mind for you" Lily said, with an evil glint in her eyes.

The clogs started to turn in her head, forming yet another twisted plan.

"You, my friend are going to play a prank"

Sirius looked at her as if she was the dumbest person alive; that wasn't a punishment, that was a bloody reward!

"On James Potter" she finished, grinning wickedly.

Sirius felt like he'd just been punched in the gut.

"What?!" he spluttered.

Miria exploded into a fit of laughter.

"You- you can't do that!" he exclaimed, "James would kill me!"

"Exactly my point"

"But it's against our morals! A marauder can't play a prank on a fellow marauder!"

"Then don't get caught" Lily replied simply.

"But he knows my work; I've been pranking with him for six years!"

Lily, completely happy with herself at getting such a desired reaction out of Sirius, simply smirked at him.

"Then do something you wouldn't normally do, do something. . .slytherin- ish"

There. Right there. She had dropped the bomb. If the little faith she had in Sirius was correct, he would take her advice, and not get caught, and in the working, do something only a Slytherin would do, convince James that Snape had done it, leaving James ticked off, and for sure and certain willing to retaliate, completing their bet and making sure she didn't have to go to Hogsmeade with him. It was Brilliant, not only brilliant, but evil. All in all, she was extremely happy with herself.

Sirius gaped at her.

"You want me, Sirius Black, filth of the Black blood, traitor of the serpent ways, to act like a Slytherin?" he asked incredulously.

"Wow! You actually do have brains up there in that big head!" Lily said amazedly.

Sirius growled threateningly under his breath.

"Your way over your head Evans" he said, trying to regain his cool.

"Don't kid me; I know I have the upper hand"

"You're using Remus' lycanthropy against him you know" he said, hoping to make her feel guilty.

"No, I'm using it against you, and you deserve it, so it doesn't really matter" she said evenly.

"So you'll either do this, or be found out by McGonagall, and in the working, also reveal that you know Remus is a werewolf, and that he helped you become animagi illegally" Miria said.

Sirius, finally recognising defeat, gave in and let out a groan of irritation. Swearing to high heaven that he'd definitely get Lily back for this.

"Well then Sirius, I think I know your answer, so you might as well come over here and let me do the charm that we used in the secret keeper game on you so you won't spill the beans to anyone" Lily said happily.

Sirius reluctantly got to his feet and stood begrudgingly in front of her.

She performed the spell easily, smiling all the time.

"Now, if you even think of coming up here again I swear I won't hesitate to blast you into the Slytherin dungeons, so in other words, watch out, I'm lurking around every corner"

"So comforting" Sirius responded sarcastically.

Lily said a short spell and a thick rope came spurting out of her wand.

"Here's what you're going to do. You'll transform into a dog, I'll put the rope around your neck, and we'll proceed to kick you down the stairs, then you'll transform-out of sight-in the common-room, then com back, show us that you've transformed, and we'll toss your wand down, then you will go back up to the boys dormitory while we watch you and stay up there, ok?"

"Well it's not exactly like I have much choice there, now is it?" he replied bitterly.

She indicated for him to transform, and he did so, hating every moment of being so much under her control.

She tied the rope around his fury neck. He snapped at her fingers, wriggling all the time, trying to do anything that would make it difficult for her.

"Feisty, feisty" she tutted mockingly, "I guess it was the Disillusionment charm you used to get up here?"

Sirius merely growled, snarling to show his sharp teeth, however, Lily was not affected by his failing attempt to intimidate her.

She cast the spell, so it looked like she was holding onto thin air.

"Miria, would you like to do the honours?" Lily questioned in a sickly sweet voice.

Miria smiled evilly, taking the rope from Lily's hands and leading him out the door.

Just as they arrived at the stairs she knelt down, pretending to be examining her foot and whispered in his ear.

"Never mess with a woman getting undressed"

And with that, she proceeded to push him most ungracefully down the stairs.

Sirius stomped up the stairs to the boy's dorms after doing everything Lily had told him too.

They'd got him. They'd got him good. And he was not happy about it.

He threw open their door stamped his way over to his bed.

"How'd it go?" James immediately asked, sitting up from his spot on the floor where he was surrounded by various bits of parchment with quidditch game plans drawn expertly all over them.

Sirius merely threw off his robes.

"The things I do for you Lupin" he muttered darkly before he grumpily drew his curtains closed, images of a beheaded Lily flying through his mind.

Ok, so as you can see, I've finally worked out how to do bold and italics, and I'm currently in the process of fixing up all of the other chapters so that they'll have bold and italics in them, and so that all the typos will be gone. I just need to ask the people who have author alert on me a question: When I redo chapters, do you receive an author alert?

Ok! So who saw Prisoner of Azkaban? I though it was great! Well actually, when I first saw it I was kind of disappointed, cos I think I was expecting a little too much cos I had been waiting for it for so long and it was very different from the first two films cos of the new director. I think it just had a totally different feel to it. But when I went to see it the second time I appreciated it a whole lot more. The only things I didn't really like were how they made Professor Lupin look, which is nothing like I imagined him, and when I first saw him before I saw the movie I thought he was going to be really crap, but the actor did a good job, which I'm happy about. One of the other things was, did anyone else think that the werewolf looked a bit like a spindly clothes line? Or is it just me? Anyways, tell me what you think, and what you liked and didn't like in your review, I'd be really happy to know what you thought!

Ok, now onto my thanks to my reviewers: crazy-chick2, arie, Star of the North, berti, Aspiring Shieldmaiden, Can You See and AnimeAngel90.

HieiJaganshiAlways: Thankyou! . It's great to get feedback from you. I hope you keep reading!

Agloechen: Yeah, I'm sorry the secrets were a little boring; I probably should have made them a bit more magical now I go back and read them. I hope this chapter was more interesting for ya! .

Kiwi: No! Sirius is mine! You'll have to put up a fight for him, there're so many crazy fangirls like ourselves out there! Glad to here your enjoying the fic!

Thankyou all very much! I hope to update soon!

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