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Summary: Lily and James are in 6th year. Lily has always hated James, James has always loved Lily. Can James get Lily to change her mind? With a backdrop of danger, war and of course mayhem and pranks!
Guest starring the dashing Sirius Black, the charming Remus Lupin, the fabulous Peter Pettigrew and of course slimy Snape, psychotic Bellatrix and all the rest of the gang.
A/N: there's two of us writing this so in the authors notes Katie a.k.a tweeny-weeny will be in italics (Yay!) and Jess a.k.a siriusprotege (Katie's idea! Good wasn't it!!) will be in bold!
Okay enjoy…
AMARE ET AMARI.
Chapter 1.
"Let us hope that we are all preceded in this life by a love story." (Don Snyder)
Several anxious first years fled from in front of a compartment on the Hogwarts Express as the shouts of two sixth years continued their rapid onslaught.
"Aw, come on Evans. Am I that bad?" James asked hiding behind the compartment door as a jet of red light flew from the end of Evan's wand.
Evans, her face now as red as her hair, drew herself up to her full, and not very considerable height, and glared at the scruffy boy in front of her, mouth open as if the question had shocked her speechless. Wrong-footed, she settled on screaming at him "I would rather go out with the Bloody Baron than you, you, you….arrogant, obnoxious, little sod!" and with that she stormed into the corridor.
James sighed and sank onto one of the plush red chairs. A few moments later a tall, good-looking boy came into the compartment, followed by a short round boy who was biting his bottom lip rattishly. Sirius slapped James on the back grinning wickedly,
"Tough luck Prongs, hope it doesn't set a precedent for the rest of the year." James ignored him and looked down the corridor,
"Where's Moony?"
"He's in a prefects meeting." Squeaked Peter as Sirius sneered,
"Dunno why they didn't make me prefect." Sirius smiled.
"It may have been something to do with that thing, in the place, with the stripping fairies." James laughed.
"Possibly" mused Sirius "or the start of term feast…"
"Or the end of term, or the Halloween." James laughed,
"Our excursions to the kitchens and honeydukes." Sirius continued fiendishly, getting into the swing of things,
"Our run-ins with the Giant Squid."
"Your expressions of love to Evans."
"Yours to Moony!" Peter practically fell off his chair from laughing so much as they all remembered a fourth year game of dares which had got mildly out of hand.
"the map" Gasped Peter between laughs, and instantly Sirius and James stopped laughing, slamming the compartment door shut, Sirius shushed Peter warily.
"Shut up, Wormtail. Do you want us to get caught?" James murmured, "Have you got it Padfoot?" he continued softly.
"Yep, I'm sure I'm missing something still though."
"Let me see, maybe I'll have a flash of divine inspiration." Sirius snorted, and James glared at him.
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good."
"Really Potter?" spat a thin boy who had suddenly appeared in the doorway. "I never knew it would be so easy to get a confession from you."
"Snivellus" muttered Sirius
"What are you doing here Snivellus?" Wormtail said, his voice only slightly more high-pitched than normal, Snape whirled on Peter menacingly and hissed,
"Why don't you hide behind Potter's skirts like normal, worm…" he paused nastily "tail." His lip curled as Peter shrank back into his seat. James stood up
"Back off, snivellus."
"Manners to prefects Potter, else your life could be one long detention."
"How much did your family pay to make you Prefect Snivellus, you greasy git." Sirius sneered.
"Just because I'm good enough for my family Black, doesn't mean I view them as a money bag."
Sirius roared and flung himself at Snape, James pulled his wand out and Peter stood up to join in just as a huge bang echoed around the compartment. The four boys turned to see a murderously angry Lily Evans, her wand out and eyes blazing. James quickly ran his fingers through his hair while stowing his wand discreetly in his back pocket.
"Evans" he said with an arrogant smile, "Did you reconsider my offer?" his eyes twinkled innocently until he saw the look of pure loathing Lily directed at him before turning to Sirius,
"get the hell off him!" she hissed, Sirius got off Snape's head, looking at her wand warily. Snape stood up and smirked,
"Thank-you for my rescue from the clutches of your boyfriend and his cronies, mudblood." He sneered sarcastically before stalking out. Both James and Sirius had raised their wands and were readying themselves to fire a thousand hexes at Snape until James caught sight of Lily's disgusted face. Horrified that he had yet again blundered into her bad books he stowed his wand and looked at the floor.
"I'm sorry he called you that." He muttered. Sirius' eyes flicked at his best friend confusedly, wandering why they hadn't blasted Snape's head off yet. He then raised his eyebrows at Moony who had appeared behind Lily when she replied, almost civilly "Thank-you, Potter."
"What the hell was that, Prongs!" screeched Sirius the moment Lily had gone and Remus had sat down, the compartment door securely shut and a powerful silencing spell flung at the door.
"What are you talking about Padfoot." James asked innocently, grinning his adorable lopsided grin.
"Don't pull that on me Prongs-I'm immune to your charms! WHAT'S WITH THE WHOLE NOT GETTING SNIVELLY?" he pronounced the word as if he was eating rotten tomatoes, "WHAT IS WITH LETTING HIM GET AWAY WITH WHAT HE SAID? I thought you liked Evan's" he lowered his voice from force of habit. Exasperated he ran his fingers through his hair while thinking what else he could say, in the end he finished furiously with "PRONGS, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?" he glared at the no longer perfectly calm James.
James stood up and walked over to Sirius, he looked up at his best friend, "Did you not see the look on her face?" He spat, his face murderous, "You have no clue, absolutely no idea! Yes I'm going to let Snivellus walk away, yes, I'm not going to get him, and" here his voice softened "this one time Padfoot, I'm going to try and change, I'm going to try and become someone Lily Evans could like, because I can't stand her hating me, I don't want her to hate me anymore!"
Sirius, and the rest of the marauders, seemed shocked; James himself seemed shocked at his outburst. "Prongs, I" Remus began.
"Just forget it. But…" and here Sirius could finally see a flash of the James he knew and loved, "That doesn't mean you can't get him back".
"Well aren't we turning into quite the cunning Slytherin now!" Sirius exclaimed before pouncing on James and beating him over the head with his broom.
Finally they all sat back breathing deeply, with the exception of Peter who had given up after Sirius had given him a second nose. As their breathing returned to normal Sirius looked round at the rest of them, a mischievous glint in his grey-blue eyes.
"So" he started "Anyone got any ideas for the traditional Marauders' prank" he looked around quickly, "Good because I was thinking that……"
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