Rated: PG for romantic content
Pairings: james/lily and lupin/lily
Summary: a story told in songfics- all songs from Michelle Branch: Hotel Paper. Lupin, Sirius, James and Lily spend the summer at James'. Sorry, this story is only for real marauders, not snitches like Peter!
Disclaimer: I do not own any Harry Potter characters, though I would like Lupin............
Chapter 1: Introduction
Remus' POV:
I remember the way summers at James' house used to be. Before we discovered girls. Before Lily started coming. We would climb this great tree in James' backyard. We'd sit up there for hours, spying on Snivellus and Lucius, and Sirius' evil cousins who just happened to live in the same neighborhood. We would pretend we were Aurors, spying on evil wizards. On one side of the street anyway.
James lived right on the border of the Muggle and Wizard worlds. Right across from his house, Muggles lived there. There was an invisible, magical barrier right on the curb of the Wizard world so the Muggles couldn't see us. It just looked like an empty field to them. We would always pretend the barrier was growing weak and only we could restore it. We'd stand out there with our wands, muttering nonsense that we insisted were secret Ministry spells, only used by Aurors.
But then, in third year, James spotted Lily Evans. He fell in love at first sight, I say that at the risk of sounding clichéd, but it was true. Of course, she would have nothing to do with him. Until sixth year, that is. James had begun to deflate his overlarge head and Lily started seeing the James we Marauders knew, not the showoff James. She fell in love too. Then, the summers changed. It would consist of them kissing in public and holding hands while walking down the street with me and Sirius standing behind them, looking like a bunch of idiots. Or tag-alongs. So, they weren't fun anymore. Especially not when I fell in love with Lily. I remember that summer so vividly. As though it were yesterday. It was the summer before our seventh and last year at Hogwarts..........
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