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A/N: This is a short, Marauder-era fic. They're in second year and we all find out about James' favorite holiday… One-shot, unless convinced otherwise…
"Wake-up! It's groundhog day!" Twelve year-old James Potter shouted out to his roommates as he pulled back the scarlet drapes to their dorm room.
"Fudgalistic!" Sirius Black shouted out from behind his bed curtains. Sirius had an odd obsession with making up words.
"Exactly!" James shouted out in an enthusiastic voice.
"James, we don't have to be up for an hours," Remus Lupin protested from his bed. Peter Pettigrew's snores could be heard from his own bed.
"All the more reason to get up!" James shouted out, walking towards the faucet with a bucket of water. "We have to go to the Great Hall and wait for Lily to arrive with my special package!" James said. Little Girl Green was his owl. Remus and Sirius reluctantly rolled out of bed. Peter's snores could still be heard, echoing through the dorm.
After filling up the bucket with ice-cold water, James walked to Peter's bed and threw open the bed curtains. Then, he threw the bucket of water on Peter's sleeping head.
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"You know, James, the owl post has arrived at the same time everyday since first year," Remus said in a half-asleep tone as he ate cereal. Sirius' head was currently resting in his plate of eggs. Peter was busy taking a hot shower.
"Of course it has, but today is special! It's Groundhog Day!" James said jovially as he reached butter to spread onto his toast. The enchanted ceiling showed that there wasn't a cloud in the sky. In James' opinion, this was the perfect Groundhog Day weather.
"James, this is a disturbing side of you," Remus said with a sigh right before his head slumped over and into his bowl of milk and cereal.
James sighed and continued to eat. Looking around he noticed that most people weren't down for breakfast yet. He muttered something to himself about anti-groundhog idiots and looked down at his watch. Half an hour until his special package got there!
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"It's here!" James shouted out jovially half an hour later when his owl perched on top of Sirius' head. Sirius woke up sputtering; Lily had managed to put her tail feathers in Sirius' mouth.
"What the heck?" Sirius spat. Remus jerked his head up out of his cereal looking confused.
"It's Lily here with my package!" James cried out happily as he took the brown box with holes in it from Lily.
"It's a bit disturbing that you named your owl Lily," Remus said pointedly.
"Never mind that!" James said as he ripped open the package, hoping not to hurt its contents.
When the top of the package had been opened, a little, brown, fury creature with green eyes peered out of the top.
"You ordered a groundhog?" Sirius asked in dismay. Remus was currently staring wide-eyed at the groundhog.
"Of course I did," James said cheerfully as the groundhog hopped out of the box and began eating the sausage from James' plate.
"Please, please, please, tell me you're not keeping this creature." Remus asked in a scared voice.
"This creature has a name," James said offensively. "While she's here—all this week—she will be referred to as Lily." Remus and Sirius stared at James.
"Your owl's already named Lily," Sirius said simply while Remus nodded along.
"Well, Lily-groundhog and Lily-owl won't have any contact, so that shouldn't be a problem," James said as though it were the most obvious thing ever.
"I think Lily-person is going to be ordering a restraining order when she hears about this one," Sirius muttered under his breath.
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All day, Lily-groundhog created mayhem wherever she went. She kept getting lose from James' bag and running around the classroom eating everything in sight, leaving James calling out for "Lily" to come back which would cause Lily-person to turn around and tell him to leave her alone.
In Professor McGonagall's class, Lily-groundhog got lose and actually attempted to eat McGonagall's shoelace. James got a weeks worth of detention when she caught him crawling on the floor, trying to get coax Lily-groundhog back into his bag.
That night, Sirius, Remus, and Peter walked into the dorm room to find James on in bed, on top of his covers, with Lily-groundhog cuddled up in his arms, her face nuzzled into his neck. As she slept, she made contented groundhog noises.
"I think chasing around Lily-groundhog and preventing her from eating our teachers was a bit tiring for him," Remus whispered with a laugh.
"Isn't it funny how his relationship with Lily-groundhog mirrors his relationship with Lily-person?" Sirius asked. Remus and Peter looked at him in shock; this was a very deep statement coming from Sirius.
"How long until she goes back again?" Peter asked in a scared voice.
"Six days, thirteen hours, five minutes, and 57 seconds," Remus said with a sigh.
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