"Why do you keep loving me?"

Disclaimer: J.K Rowling wrote the books not me. I don't own anything. Except the characters I made up.

Chapter fifteen: End of an Era

(This part is in Sirius' point of view).

I've never been in this room. It leads off the main hall but I'd never noticed it. When we walked into it I was shocked to see it was empty. They just stood there and watched me.

The eventually talked after consulting their papers for a very long time. It was the regal looking gentleman that spoke. He said,

"We will give you a series of challenges that you must complete. The first will be the spell round. If you have any questions voice them now before we start."

I shook his head in answer and the examiners stood in a line in front of me. I readied himself with my wand.

They all at once started to throw spells at me. I dodged a jelly legs curse and narrowly missed being knocked out by a body bind I then deflected a expellaramus curse and also another which was a freeze spell. I had to do this for a timed amount until they stopped. At the end the examiners lightly clapped.

" Well done Mr Black, a very admiral performance." One of the female examiners said. I was proud of my effort and walked in the direction of the door they had just beckoned me to. I walked out and found myself in the entrance and there was Dumbledore waiting to greet me.

"Hello sir. I didn't expect to see you here. Did you want to see me."

"Yes, yes, you and many others. I am just here to see how you are getting on. Do you think your exam went well?" He asked me.

I replied with,

"Yes sir. I did great. Didn't miss one."

"Good, good that's what I want to here."

The others followed and soon we were all heading back to the common room. That was our only exam today, it would be one a day till the end of school. Happy days!

(Back to Lily)

I totally rocked in my exams I think I did anyway. It's the last day of school and I'm so sad. I feel like my heart will burst, all these things are bursting inside me. Questions like, where will I go? What will I do? How will I manage on my own? These things started bothering me.

I wanted to be alone. I strolled down to the lake and sat and watch the ripples in the water. It soothed me but this wasn't for long I was joined by someone. They sat beside me and pulled me into their lap.

"James how did you find me?" I asked smiling slightly.

"I always know where you are Lil's." I rested my head on his shoulder and just stopped thinking. He obviously hadn't though because he suddenly said,

"What do you want to do when you leave Lily?"

"I don't know, probably work for the ministry, I would quite like to do some Auror training."

"Well, that's like me I want to be a Auror as well. But Lily what about us? We're going to stay together right?" He said his voice cracking.

" Of course James. Of course. Why wouldn't we?"

"Good, then you won't mind me asking you to move in with me in our new house in London." He said.

"What? Oh James, I would love to. But how would you get a house, I mean neither of us have any money."

"Ah but you are wrong my love, my parents god bless them have decided to retire to the country to their manor house leaving their London town house to their beloved eldest son."

"Oh James that's great. Come on lets go and tell the others." We then hand in hand rushed up to the castle to tell our friends about our new home.

They were of course excited for us but I think it made Sirius slightly uneasy. As his relationship with Tasha was no where near this serious. They were still in the fun stage when they didn't know what was going to happen next so I told Tasha to reassure him that she wasn't ready to pick out curtains with him and then he looked happier.

As the number of days to leaving hogwarts grew near the group of us became more and more quiet, thinking of the good times spent in the castle, the laughter we had shared. I felt like a huge whole was forming in my chest. I hated anything ending. They were too final, I liked things to go on, not to just finish. I had to keep reminding myself that it wasn't over, it was just changing but I couldn't help it.

Hogwarts was my home, I didn't want to leave. I had a feeling everyone else was feeling the same.

The night before graduation finally loomed over us as though a shadow had cast its dark gaze over us. It stared, waiting, anticipating our sorrow for leaving. I awoke to an unusually bright sun bursting through my window though. It didn't help though. I still felt sad.

As I looked around the dorm' I saw the other girls were already up and quickly dressed and went downstairs. As I turned the corner of the stairs the most wonderful sight that was so appropriate for this day greeted me. My friends were sitting in exactly the same place they always sat, all their favourite seats. It was so familiar and I knew that I was sad about leaving Hogwarts. I was sad about leaving my friends. But I knew nothing would change. We'd always be friends. As I joined them they were all arguing in a friendly way.

"Hey Lily," James said, pulling me into his lap to sit, " Settle this argument who got more detentions, me or Sirius? It was so me right?" James asked.

"What no way! I got that week of detentions that one time in the third year for setting off a dung bomb in Filch's office and you never go caught."

"Yeah but I had those detentions that time in the fifth year for setting Professor Triune on fire and I got two weeks. So there." James finished off with a childish remark and I just smiled and listened as they argued. Maybe this kind of change wasn't so bad. Can't think of a sight I would rather see in the whole world.

Okay this is the narrator's final piece for this story. Lily and James did in fact two years later marry. It was disgustingly romantic as they got married on Hogwarts grounds. Lily beautiful in white and James handsome in the traditional wizarding robe for a wedding.

They had got the jobs they had desired as they both succeeded in becoming Aurors as did Sirius. Lily doesn't yet know though after the Honeymoon she is going to have to cut her Auror training short because of an unexpected surprise, which will take up around the next nine months of her year. . Remus had not in fact decided to become a teacher after all but instead he decided to specialise in defence against the dark arts, and then go on to teach. Tasha had bough her shop and planned to open it the week Lily and James got back from Honeymoon and Charlie was an apprentice in St Mungo's. Peter was said to have gone on to become a full time carer for his sick mother but no one was sure. He was always slightly strange.

These friends, the greatest of friends had no idea of what lay ahead of them, and would never be ready for their future, but maybe just maybe the future wouldn't be so bad thanks to a few people who tried. Change can be good and it can be bad but what is certain it will happen and nothing can change that.

Thats how I am ending this story. With a nice happy cheesy ending. I am writing a new story. I put a lot more time into it so i hope its better than this one and i hope you read it. Bye thanks for reading this. xoxoxox