The Early Years

Recap:

As Dumbledore said the last few words, food suddenly appeared on the empty plates.

"Hurray!" shouted Sirius and he proceeded to shove food down his throat.

Lily, Jo and Kat (she had been sorted into Gryffindor) look on in disgust.

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Many Months Later...

Lily, Jo and Kat were in the common room doing their homework.

"I give up!" Jo said, "Sly (Professor Slyer actually but the girls and the Marauders call him sly) couldn't just give Gryffindors a longer essay than the Slytherins! I mean, we have potions with them. We should have the same amount of homework!"

"We know, we know," said Kat, "but if we don't hand up this essay, Sly would take the chance to deduct a whole lot of points from Gryffindor."

"Kat's right. James and the gang lose an average of 100 points every potions lesson. We can't afford to lose more." Lily said sipping her fruit juice.

Just then, some third year girls climbed through the portrait hole.
"Did you see him fly? He was fabulous! Plus he's good-looking too. Pity he's younger than us."

Lily, Jo and Kat looked at each other and wondered who the third year girls were talking about.

"Oy! Who are you all talking about?" asked Jo.

"James Potter. Isn't he wonderful?" said one of them, a dreamy expression on her face.

Lily spat out her juice. "You... think... James Potter... is wonderful?" she managed to stutter.

"Isn't he?" said another third year girl.

Lily fell of her chair.

"The rest of the Marauders are cute too," said another girl.

Jo and Kat fell off their chairs.

Just then, the Marauders came into the common room. Immediately, the third year girls were in front of them saying, " Hi James, hi Sirius, hi Remus." as they batted their eyelashes.

The girls blinked a few times and then grinned. There were lots of things to tease the Marauders about now. Suddenly, Remus noticed the girls on the floor rubbing their knees. He pushed through the third year girls and walked over to Kat.

"Are you alright?" he asked as he offered Kat his hand.

"Yeah, I guess." replied Kat

Lily and Jo shared a grin.

Remus pulled Kat off the floor and asked again, "Are you sure you're alright?"

This time, James and Sirius shared a grin.

Meanwhile, the third year girls were shooting glares at Kat. Sirius and James walked over to Lily and Jo and pulled them off the floor too. Now, the third year girls were shooting glares at Lily, Jo and Kat.

"Why are you three on the floor with injured knees?" asked Sirius.

"It's a long story," replied Jo.

The third year girls seeing that the Marauders weren't paying any attention to them, walked away.

Lily watched them go and then recounted what happened.

After awhile...

"You mean you don't think I'm wonderful?" James asked Lily with a 'hurt' expression.

"Yep!" replied Lily cheerfully.

Lily ducked a pillow sent her way by James.

"Ha! You missed!" shouted Lily.

"Not this time!" replied James as he ran towards Lily and tickled her

"Ah! Go away!" said Lily as she ran all around the common room with James right behind her.

"I bet 1000 galleons that James and Lily would get together," whispered Sirius to Jo.

Jo nodded her head, "Me too"

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"Ooh! I'm so excited! The quidditch try-outs is tomorrow," said Mary (remember her?).

Time flew and it had already been a year since Lily set her eyes on the Hogwarts castle.

"You mean you're trying out?" asked Lily

"Oh no, but I'll be able to see the Marauders on brooms! I mean, did you see them fly? Especially James Potter? He's just wonderful!" Mary shouted the last part to no one in particular.

Lily pretended to puke.

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"Is it true that you three are trying out for quidditch?" asked Lily when she saw the infamous Marauders in the common room.

"Yep. Why?" replied Remus

"Oh, nothing, I just needed to confirm some very publicized rumours."

On the day of the quidditch try-outs, the quidditch pitch was packed with girls who were there to see the Marauders and boys to see if the Marauders really flew well. Hey, what can I say? News spreads around fast. Lily, Jo and Kat were practically dragged to the field by Mary and their roommates. They did put up a fight but oh well, back to the story.

It turned out that James and Remus were trying for chaser and Sirius for beater ("typical" Jo said). The girls had to agree that the Marauders fly well. Remus was the first to spot the girls, after all, he was looking for Kat.

"There's Kat, I mean, the girls," said Remus blushing slightly.

"Where? Where?" said James. Actually he already spotted them. It was easy enough to spot a trio of attractive girls, wait, did he just call Lily Evans attractive?

His thoughts were interrupted by Sirius.

"There you dummy. It's quite easy to spot a red head shouting 'I hate James Potter', loudly." replied Sirius with a grin.

"I see them already, I'm not a dummy and Sirius, wipe that grin off your face," said James.

"Let's go say hello!" suggested Remus

"'kay!" said Sirius bouncing on his broom (I don't know how he does that but, he's Sirius!)

The Marauders waved to the girls and immediately, all the females present on the quidditch pitch glared at the girls.

"Told you it wasn't a good idea," said Lily shrieking a little.

You never know what a jealous, angry mob of young teenage girls might do.

"I suggest we run," said Kat.

"Good idea," replied Jo, she turned around and started running, "What are you two waiting for? Graduation? RUN!!!"

Lily, Jo and Kat turned and ran from the angry mob of girls. To make matters worse, the Marauders chose that time to drop in to take the girls on a ride on their brooms.

"Hi Jo! Hi Lily! Hi Kat!" said Sirius

"Go away!" shouted the girls, running away.

"Huh? Why?" asked Remus

"I have a feeling we're going to find out," said James

A whole mob of angry, jealous girls ran after them but not after smiling of giggling at the Marauders.

"They're jealous!" said Sirius

"Brilliant observation," answered James sarcastically.

"Poor Kat... and Jo and Lily" said Remus blushing a little again.

"So... we leave them alone?" asked Sirius

"No, we pester them even more," said James with an evil grin.

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The Next Day...

"Hello Lily dearest!" said James bouncing into the Great Hall.

The whole female population (besides the teachers) turned to glare at Lily. James grinned. Lily panicked.

She retorted, "Shut up Potter!"

Maybe that will appeased some people. Luckily for Lily, some of the females turned back to their food satisfied that Lily would want nothing to do with oh so wonderful James Potter but for other die-hard James Potter fans, it's a different story.

On the way to charms that day, Lily, Jo and Kat were stopped by a 4th year Slytherin girl.

"I want to challenge you to a duel,"

"Huh? What for?" asked Lily

"James Potter!" the Slytherin shouted (Yes, even Slytherins like James Potter) and cursed Lily.

Lily blocked it easily and shouted back, "I do not like James Potter, in fact, I HATE him!"

The Marauders walked past just in time to hear Lily shouting, " I HATE James Potter!"

"She hates me? But why? Wait a minute, why do I even care?" thought James.

Lily spotted the Marauders from the corner of her eye and shouted, "There he is! He's all yours!" and saying so, she dodge a few spells and pushed the Slytherin towards James.

Then, she ran towards the Charms classroom with Kat and Jo in tow while James was trying to free himself from the grasps of the Slytherin.

"Sirius, Remus, HELP!" he pleaded his friends.

They, however, were rolling on the floor laughing like lunatics. Finally, James freed himself and ran full speed all the way towards the charms classroom.

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"Hurray! Its the last day of the final examinations!" shouted Jo as the girls walked into the great hall.

"Only History of Magic left," said Kat.

"BORING!" Lily said with a yawn

(Fast forward to the test)

The Marauders and the girls were done hours ago but Professor Binns said that he would only collect the paper at the end of the test. Lily couldn't help but wonder why someone would need 3 hours for a paper you only need 30 minutes to do.

Okay, so maybe only the Marauders and the girls needed 30 minutes but it's not like everyone else didn't study... Lily began to fold paper planes. She threw it and... bull's eye! It got nicely caught in James Potter's unruly hair.

James felt as though something was stuck in his hair. He tried to comb it with his hands, only to find a paper plane in his hair. He wondered who could have done it. Not Sirius, he's staring at Jo for some strange reason. There could only be one person, he turned to look at Lily. She was grinning at him and on her desks were a few paper planes.

Finally, the bell rang.

"YIPPEE!!! It's finally over!" shouted Jo.

Everyone was in good spirits. Remus, however, didn't say anything. He went straight back to the common room and to his dorm.

"What's up with him?" asked Sirius

"How are we suppose to know? You're his good friend right?" replied Lily.

"Well, did anything happen today? Or maybe, is anything special going to happen today?" asked James.

The gang looked around and shrugged. Just then, a bunch of 4th years walked past, discussing the astronomy questions.

"Argh! I should have realised tonight would be a full moon! Darn! I lost marks because of that one!"

Suddenly, Lily and James realised something. They looked at each other and James asked, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"If you're thinking what I'm thinking, then yes, I'm thinking what you're thinking," replied Lily.

Lily and James turned to Sirius, Jo and Kat who were looking really puzzled.

"We have a serious problem on our hands," both of them said.

"Huh? But I didn't give you any problems today, did I?" asked Sirius looking thoughtful, "Of course, I did put beetles in James cornflakes, turned Lily's hair green..." and started listing down all the things he did to James and Lily.

"No, no Sirius, I mean serious as in S-E-R-I-O-U-S," said Lily getting a little annoyed.

"Oh," he said a little sheepishly

"Let's talk outside," said James

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"You tell them."

"No, you tell them."

"No, you tell them."

"Oh, alright, I'll say," said James after looking at the looks on Sirius', Jo's and Kat's faces.

"Well, Haven't you people realise that Remus always absent himself once every month?" asked James.

"Yeah…" answered Sirius and Jo.

Kat was looking thoughtful.

"And he's always absent around the full moon, isn't he?" continued Lily.

"So what are you trying to say? That our mild-mannered Remus is a werewolf?" asked Sirius jokingly.

But looking at the looks on his friend's faces, he realised something, "You don't mean…"

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"Erm, guys, I, erm, got to go home, my uncle just died," said Remus a little nervously.

"Okay, bye!" replied the girls and the Marauders, a little too cheerfully.

Remus was taken aback by their answer because they always ask him a lot of questions before letting him go or giving him the 'stamp of approval' as Remus calls it. Besides, they weren't sounding sympathetic at all.

"Yah, erm, bye" said Remus as he walked out of the common room.

The girls, James and Sirius watched him go.

"Now what?" asked Kat.

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Tada! Another chapter done. is proud of herself Anyway, review please! Reviews are very much appreciated. (: