Wow, this is a long Chapter, sorry, I could probably break it into two but it all ties in with Strange…lol…oh well, hope you enjoy and it doesn't take to long to read.

Chapter 4-Strange Happenings

The freezing weather outside did not permit anyone to go outside except for classes. James, Sirius, Remus, Lexi, Lily and Jade were very annoyed, as they couldn't stand being inside for too long. As the days grew colder, the amount of homework let up a little. Although there wasn't much homework, James, Sirius, and Jade found themselves sitting in the common room each night trying to finish the homework they had been set. They had decided to have fun instead of work, and instead had to finish their work at night. Lily, who was already finished her homework, was reading a book, and Lexi and Remus had gone down to the Great Hall to play Exploding Snap. Most of James, Sirius, and Jade's free time went towards pranking the Slytherins, as Jade hated them very much as well, and decided she was in on the pranks. So far, they had turned the Slytherins food into miniature lions and, they had managed to prank Lucius Malfoy, whom they all hated.

One morning as James and Sirius were walking out to the Herbology greenhouses, they heard a drawling voice behind them.

"Honestly Snape, you can't even do a job properly. Next time, you shall be punished."

Sirius whipped around.

"Ah, Mr. Blood Traitor Black." None other than Lucius Malfoy said.

Sirius glared at Malfoy.

"Why don't you just go off to Durmstrang where you belong? I'm sure your mother and father would like that. After all they are almost as much dirt as all of Durmstrang put together," Sirius retorted.

"Black, I'd much rather stay here and be a reminder of the lovely life you can never have. And I believe your lovely parents believe that Durmstrang is much better than Hogwarts, and their good son, Regulus will be going there," Malfoy said calmly.

Sirius scowled and looked like he would like nothing better than to jump on Malfoy and curse him, but thought better of it and started walking away.

James sighed. But before he could say anything to his best mate, some one called his name.

"James!"

James whipped around to see Lily, her red hair bouncing as she ran towards him.

"Would you like to be my partner today? I heard we were repotting something or other, and we needed partners," Lily said.

James winked at Sirius and said. "Sure why not?" Lily beamed, and hurried back to Jade and Lexi.

"So, what did he say?" Jade pressed.

"He said 'sure why not'" Lily answered.

"See I told you so, he loves you," Lexi said.

"Like I said, I knew from the day I saw him let eyes on you. He likes you, I always know with James. Like this one time, when I brought home my friend from playschool…" Jade started

Lily blushed. "Well I think someone likes you Lexi," she said changing the subject.

Lexi looked shocked then calmly said, "Who?"

"Well, his name starts with R and ends with emus," Lily said.

Lexi smiled, then quickly covered up. "Cool."

Lily laughed. "And you like him too," she teased.

"No I don't!" Lexi protested.

Lily just shrugged and Lexi looked at Jade for support.

"Sorry hun, I think I'm gonna have to agree with Lils on this one," she said.

Lexi let out a frustrated growl then started sulking. Jade quickly went to ask Sirius to be her partner, so Lexi would accidentally on purpose be partners with Remus.

When they entered the greenhouse, Lily took her seat next to James, but the next thing she knew, the chair had been pulled away. She looked around angrily. This could only be the doings of Remus James or Sirius. But the three boys seemed in a very important conversation, and they weren't paying attention to anything. Lily didn't think Jade or Lexi would do that to her, so that left the other Gryffindors and all the Hufflpuffs. Lily decided to let it go, after all, how was she to find the culprit now? Little professor Sprout called for attention and everyone sat down. The moment James sat down, his chair was pulled back too. He quickly got up and glared around the room.

"Who did that?" he yelled.

Professor Sprout looked very angry and said, "Potter sit down, we need to get started."

James sat down slowly, scanning the eyes of the Hufflpuffs and Gryffindors.

"Hello class," Professor Sprout started. "Today we will be repotting Mandrakes. Get into partners now. Now can anyone tell me the properties of mandrakes?" Professor Sprout asked.

Lily and Remus both raised their hands.

"Yes Mr. Lupin?" she asked.

"When a Mandrake is pulled from the ground it will scream very loudly. The scream is fatal to all that hear it. The Mandrake can also reverse petrification. It has many magical properties, mostly medicinal. The roots of the Mandrake are very valuable and may appear like a person. Mandrakes may be pain killers or sleeping aids and it may induce delirium and madness," Remus recited. James and Sirius stared gobsmacked at their friend.

"What?" he said. "I did a little extra reading."

Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Very good Mr. Lupin. 15 points to Gryffindor."

Remus smiled.

"Alright class, grab your earmuffs now and a mandrake and pot." Professor Sprout said.

James smiled at Lily and went to get a Mandrake. When he got back, Lily had grabbed two pairs of fluffy pink earmuffs.

"Aren't they cute?" she asked James.

James thought they were the ugliest things he had ever seen, but didn't say so. He merely smiled and nodded. James quickly put them on and waited for further instruction. He then realized that he was the only one with his earmuffs on. Sirius rolled his eyes at James and sent him an exasperated look.

Smooth move idiot! James thought. Wait to make a fool of yourself in front of Lily! James slowly took his earmuffs off. Lily smiled at him reassuringly. After Professor Sprout had explained what they had to do with their Mandrakes, it was time to put their earmuffs on. James and Lily quickly replanted their Mandrake with no problem. Professor Sprout ended the lesson with a foot long essay about properties of the Mandrake.

As they made their way back to the castle Jade said, "I wonder what Malfoy meant when he was telling Snape he didn't do a job right. Any ideas?"

James and Sirius suddenly remembered, but Remus looked very thoughtful.

"Just the other night when I was…erm…taking a walk, I heard Malfoy saying the same thing to Snape. James vaguely remembered Remus saying he hadn't felt good and going for a walk.

"Hmm…maybe we should do some spying. I've got one more surprise you guys don't know about yet," James said.

At the dinner table that night, James had an unusually lumpy and large stomach. Sirius and Remus kept looking at James curiously, wondering what it was, but James just winked and kept eating. Lexi and Jade were a bit suspicious of Sirius, as he wasn't inhaling all the food in sight as usual. After everyone's bellies were considerably full, Sirius and Remus followed James out of the Great Hall.

"Aw, come on you great prat! Let us in on this!" Sirius cried.

"Ok Sirius, simmer down, we don't want China to learn our plans," James said as he pulled out something very silvery out from his cloak.

Remus gasped. "Is that what I think it is?" he asked.

"Well if you think it's an invisibility cloak then your right," James answered.

"Come on then, put it on," Sirius urged.

The boys slipped the large cloak over themselves and settled down to wait for Snape and Malfoy.

Lily felt extremely tired. She kept having extremely weird dreams. People would be screaming or dying. The screaming would fill her head for hours on end. Lily shuddered. She didn't want to worry Lexi and Jade. She didn't want them to find out about her odd dreams either. She didn't think they were very good, and was about to go to the library to check them out. But Jade had noticed her worried look.

"What's wrong Lils?" she asked.

Lily snapped out of her trance.

"Oh nothing. I've just been a bit overworked. Nothing I can't handle," Lily answered, yawning.

"Lily, I've lived beside James for a long time. As long as I can remember, actually. It's not hard to tell when someone's lying to me," she said.

Lily hung her head. "It's nothing to worry about, I just haven't had enough sleep lately. I'll be fine."

Jade opened her mouth to say something, but felt Lexi kick her under the table. She quickly stuffed some pumpkin pasties into her mouth and started chewing vigorously.

Sirius, James and Remus did not have to wait long until Snape and Malfoy exited the Great Hall. They turned a corner leading to the dungeons. The three friends followed them. Snape and Malfoy stopped beside a portrait of an enormous green snake.

"Ok Severus, here's the deal. The Gryffindor password is Fizzing Whizbee don't forget it this time. Now Potters cloak should be at the bottom of his trunk, if my spy is correct. There is also a Pensieve there. Take them all and any other information that could possibly be there. We must find out as much as we can about dearest George and Natalie Potter. My father will be waiting at the highest Astronomy Tower. Give everything to him," Malfoy explained.

"I always knew that slimy git was up to something!" Sirius whispered.

James and Remus exchanged worried looks. Snape and Malfoy turned back the way they had come. James took off the invisibility cloak.

"Let's catch them!" James said.

"I'm in," Sirius said.

Remus looked uncertain, then reluctantly nodded. As the three boys made their way up to the Gryffindor Common Room, they heard Malfoy's drawling voice.

"Ooh, a wee Gryffindor. What shall we do with him Severus?"

"Let's curse him into oblivion," Snape snarled.

James suddenly appeared from the shadows.

"Leave him Malfoy," he said harshly.

Malfoy turned ready to curse James, but before he could Remus yelled "Petrificus Totalus!"

Malfoy's arms and legs snapped together, then he landed on the floor with a loud thud. Snape, realizing he was outnumbered, fled quickly.

"You ok?" Remus asked, helping the chubby boy up.

James and Sirius marched over to the boy making sure they trod on Malfoy on their way.

"I'm James, and this is Sirius and Remus," James said.

The boy nodded.

"I know, I share a dormitory with you guys. The girls are always talking about you nonstop. They think you three are like heroes to the school," the boy said.

"Right! You're Par—Pit—Peter!" Sirius asked.

The boy nodded.

"Would you like to join us for dinner? We were just out for an afternoon…er…walk," James asked, hiding the invisibility cloak under his own cloak.

The boy nodded excitedly. It looked like the three boys had made a new friend.

James felt it a bit inappropriate to include Peter in their plans, as they had only met him a few hours before. It seemed he was very timid and unwilling to break the rules. Nonetheless, James, Sirius, and Remus would change that.

Late into the night, James heard his dormitory door open. He hastily pretended to be asleep, his invisibility cloak safe in Remus' bed and his Penseive safe in Sirius'. He could hear Snape rustling around in his trunk. He laughed inwardly. Snape would never guess James had overheard he and Malfoy talking. Snape let out a sort of muffled frustrated growl, then moved on to Sirius' trunk.

"Oi! Grandma I told you I didn't want a nap!" Sirius said sleepily, just on cue.

Snape quickly gathered his cloaks as Sirius began to sit up muttering about his Grandmother. Snape ran out of the room, nearly slamming the dormitory door on his way out. James broke down in silent laughter.

"Did you see his face? That was good!" Sirius hooted.

A sudden rustle came from the bed beside Remus. Remus quickly cast a sleeping Charm on Frank and Peter, so they wouldn't wake up. The boys quickly tiptoed out of their dormitory.

"You got the cloak?" James asked Remus.

Remus nodded, though James and Sirius couldn't tell in the dark.

Remus draped the cloak around the three, and they set off towards the portrait of the fat lady. James noiselessly opened the portrait, and the fat lady said, "no thanks my dear, I've had enough tea!" Remus snickered as they passed the portrait.

The three boys felt thoroughly ready for whatever was thrown at them. After meeting Malfoy trying to curse Peter, they had gone to the library and looked up many hexes and curses. James felt they had many good ones. On their way back to their Common Room, they had practiced on many passing Slytherins. Now, they were headed to the Astronomy Tower to catch Snape and practice a bit more. Very inconveniently, on their way, they ran into Peeves, the school poltergeist.

"Who's there?" he asked evilly. "Some ickle students getting into trouble?" Peeves jeered.

The boys were frozen in their steps. Lost for words, James said the first thing that came to mind. They didn't have time to deal with Peeves right now.

"No. It's some trouble makers going to prank Filch," James said.

Peeves, who usually delighted in pranking and annoying Filch, smiled. Usually it was his favorite hobby to annoy people, and as he was good at it, he didn't need any help.

"Filch is on the third floor. He's patrolling the corridor." Peeves said, attempting to be helpful.

"Thanks loads Peeves," Sirius said. Peeves flew away blowing raspberries with his tongue.

The boys seemed to have been holding their breath. They all suddenly relaxed. The three boys shuffled along the corridor underneath the invisibility cloak. They jumped at every creak and crack the old castle emitted. They froze whenever they heard anything remotely close to a voice. They started climbing the stairs towards the Astronomy tower, then stopped as they heard voices.

"Where are they Severus?" Malfoy asked. It seemed as though he had just arrived.

"Sir, when I went to check both Cloak and Penseive were gone. I checked his dorm mates trunks as well. Nothing. Under their beds was clean and there was no hint of anything hidden." Snape said. "I don't know where they could've gone!"

As the three boys inched closer they could see Julius Malfoy sitting arrogantly on a broom.

"What?" Julius Malfoy hissed.

"Potter and his friends were all in their beds, I swear!" Snape replied. "Severus, you have already made many mis" Malfoy started, then was suddenly cut off, as he was hit by a curse from Remus.

"Tarantallegra!" Remus had whispered.

Mr. Malfoy's legs started a frenzied tap dance, causing him to almost fall off his broom.

The three boys snickered under the Invisibility Cloak. Julius Malfoy very quickly muttered the counter curse, and looked at Snape.

"Has someone followed you Severus?" he asked angrily.

Snape was basically shaking underneath his cloak now. He looked very timid and afraid. Snape was obviously at a loss for words. He was just about to stutter a response, when James muttered "Stupefy!"

Snape keeled over, almost falling off the tower. Malfoy made no move to save him, but scanned the tower landing crucially. There was a moment where he rested his eyes on the place James, Sirius and Remus were sitting, barely breathing, although they were shaking with laughter.

"Densaugeo!" Sirius whispered without moving his mouth.

Malfoy's teeth instantly began to grow. By the time he realized what was happening, his teeth were down to the bottom of his chin. All three boys shook with silent laughter and it was all they could do to not let out a howl. Malfoy scanned the landing once more, then looked behind him, as if waiting for a signal. He finally muttered something, and zoomed off on his broomstick, leaving Snape stunned and three laughing boys behind him.

After James was sure Malfoy was out of sight, and Snape was re-stunned, he whipped the invisibility cloak off, and began howling with laughter. Sirius and Remus joined in, clutching their stomachs.

They were suddenly interrupted by quick, uneven footsteps making their way up the stairs to the tower. James, realizing the boys didn't have the cloak on too late, made a run for it.

"Potter, Black and Lupin. I should have known," an evil voice spoke from the darkness of the stairwell.

James stopped in his tracks and Sirius and Remus squinted into the darkness. The old, ugly caretaker Filch, was waiting for them in the shadows.

"And what have we here? Severus Snape? Stunned? We are in trouble aren't we." Filch said.

James tried to hitch an innocent look on his face, but failed.

"Detention. Detention," Filch muttered.

James and Sirius looked unconcerned, but Remus looked appalled.

"That's right Mr. Lupin. Detention! But what to do with you?" Filch spoke to himself.

Sirius and James looked as if the hadn't a care in the world, James becoming particularly interested in his fingernails, and Sirius with an invisible watch. The two boys were used to getting in trouble. But Remus looked as if he never would have dreamed of ever getting a detention. He looked frightened at the thought of it.

"I'll decide later. Lupin, take Snape to the hospital wing. I would like to see you in my office later. Black, Potter, come with me," Filch hissed.

Sirius and James walked behind Filch as he led them to his office. Remus slung Snape over his shoulder and carried him to the hospital wing.

The corridors were eerie and extremely dark that night. Sirius and James kept looking behind their backs as if expecting something to follow them. They heard a whisper, and an invisible wind swept past James' robes. Filch suddenly turned around and looked at the boys.

"What are you two doing following me around?" he asked.

James and Sirius looked completely nonplussed.

"Get off to bed you scoundrels. This is your warning," Filch said.

James and Sirius didn't waste any time heading off to bed. Once they were sure they were quite far from Filch, they turned a corner and doubled back to meet Remus at the hospital wing.

"What was that all about?" Sirius asked.

James shrugged. "I have no clue, something just—AH!" he screamed.

Sirius jumped. "What?"

James whipped around. "Something just grabbed my butt! What are you playing at?" he yelled down the empty corridor.

A giggle came from in front of James and he looked around wildly.

"Who's there?" he asked.

His only answers were a couple more giggles.

"Show yourself," Sirius whispered.

"Not so confident in the dark are you guys?" a familiar voice said from the shadows, and Jade, Lily, and Lexi suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

"Here's your cloak," Jade said, handing it to James.

James snatched his cloak out of his friends hands. He looked at them searchingly and glared at their innocent smiles.

"Didn't think you were the only ones allowed to roam the corridors at night, did you?" Lily asked.

James shook his head angrily.

"We were just going to find remus," Sirius said.

"Well we're coming with you," Lexi stated.

"No, we can manage thanks," James said.

"Hey, if it wasn't for the memory charm Lily had set on Filch, you two would be in lots of trouble right now so let us come," jade said.

Sirius gaped at Lily.

"You can do a memory charm?" he asked.

Lily nodded proudly. James just shook his head and turned around.

"If you want to come you have to be quiet," he said.

Jade snorted. "Lead on stupid."

The small group wandered the corridors for a while, until they finally found Remus.

He smiled at them gratefully, and james explained what had happened after they had left. The group made their way back to the Gryffindor Common Room as quick as possible. When they were finally back into the comforting room, Sirius said, 'well close one tonight guys, good thing we caught them."

Lily looked at Sirius penetratingly.

"What were you boys up to?"

James, Sirius and Remus looked at each other mischievously.

"Nothing," they answered in unison.

Lily glared at them, then said, "fine, I'm going to bed, but mark my words I will get to the bottom of this."

Sirius glared at James. "If you didn't like her so much, I'd ditch her. She's gonna make trouble," he whispered.

The boys were delighted to see that Snape was not at the Slytherin table the next morning at breakfast. Malfoy was looking bothered by something. (Perhaps his fathers' teeth had not yet grown back?) Nonetheless, James and Sirius were very happy about how their midnight rampage had gone.

" Come on Remus, its only a detention. I reckon James and I could compete since you don't like them. I bet you I'd win, I so much more of a trouble maker," Sirius boasted.

"In your dreams Sirius, I could beat you any day, with dates and detention."

Remus snorted into his cup.

"What's wrong Remus?" Sirius asked concernedly.

Remus smiled. "Nothing, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit."

"Hospital wing," Sirius recommended, clearly not getting the joke.

Remus rolled his eyes and kept eating. He contented himself with listening to James and Sirius bicker and debate about who could get more girls and detention than the other.

Peter, who had taken to hanging out with the three boys, had finished breakfast early and was already waiting in the Charms classroom when Remus entered, James and Sirius trailing behind him.

The boys settled down, waiting for Professor Flitwick.

"Do you guys think I could get away with asked Lily to tutor me for Charms?" James asked his friends.

"No you prat, she knows you're good at harms anyway, she's not going to tutor you," Sirius answered.

James went back to thinking of other ways he could get together with Lily.

"Why don't you just ask her out?" Remus asked.

"Because I don't even think she likes me like that," James answered as if that settled the matter.

"Never stopped you before. There was that one girl at the Quidditch World Cup you asked out when you were seven," Sirius answered.

"How did you know?" James asked confused.

"Jade," Sirius merely stated.

James started to grow hot in the face. "So, I was seven."

Sirius shrugged.

"I'd go for it mate. You should wait until Christmas holidays, I'll ask Jade." He said.

James nodded. "Yeah, and Remus could ask Lexi."

It was Remus' turn to blush.

"Can we talk about something else please?" he asked.

Sirius and James shook their head, but before they could start interrogating Remus, the three girls arrived.

"Lily, Jade and Lexi. We would like to introduce you to Peter," Sirius said.

The girls all looked around excitedly for another good looking boy until their eyes fell upon the watery-eyed boy sitting beside Remus.

"That's Peter?" Jade asked.

James nodded, "the one and only," he said.

Lily smiled nicely, and Jade and Lexi followed suit.

The moment they turned around, Jade said, "what is he doing with a bunch of good looking boys like them?"

Lily and Lexi shrugged, clearly bewildered.

Professor Flitwick entered the classroom at that moment, and silenced the class. Since Christmas was coming, he had decided they would just review. James, Sirius, Remus and Peter chatted as shouts of "Wingardium Leviosa!" filled the air.

After an enjoyable class of Defense Against the Dark Arts, they headed to the Great Hall for lunch.

Sirius and James had been bored in class, so they had decided to hex Malfoy in transfiguration. They had 'accidentally' said the wrong hex (James: furnunculus, Sirius: Scourgify) and Malfoy had started spurting large pink bubbles out of his mouth while his face turned green with trees.

But they had earned a detention, and Remus was very glad he had not been part of that prank, as their consequence was to clean out the bedpans in the hospital wing without magic.

"Excited for detention tomorrow night Sirius?" James asked, as they sat in the Common Room, finishing up the days homework.

Sirius nodded mischievously and bent back over his parchment. James had sent a letter to his father about his detention and had happily received a letter back that night with a parcel attached to it.

"Look what my dad sent me," he said.

Sirius, Remus and Peter gathered around to look at the two identical objects James was holding.

"Mirrors?" Sirius asked.

"Not just mirrors, two way mirrors, so that if they put us in separate detentions, we can still talk to each other," James explained.

"Sweet, that's awesome!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Sirius, we need to find a way to sneak our wands into those detentions. We can't transfigure them , because how are we going to transfigure them back." James said.

Sirius nodded.

"Any ideas Remus?" he asked.

Remus shook his head. He was looking quite sick and pale.

"You ok?" Peter asked.

He nodded. "Yeah I'm fine, don't worry about it."

"I'll be right back guys, I need to go to the library for something in my essay," James said.

The other three boys nodded.

James quickly left the Common Room. He was going to research odd diseases. He walked aimlessly, until he came to the library. He entered and went straight to a bookshelf on diseases. Something that happens often… he thought. He came across a book labeled A Guide to Magical Maladies and Injuries. He took it to one of the tables in the back of the library. It was a long time before he noticed he had the feeling that someone was watching him. He quickly looked around and saw gleaming emerald eyes looking at him.

"You've been there for a while," Lily said, picking up her things and going to sit with James.

"You've been watching me for a long time," he countered.

Lily smiled. "I thought you might need some help."

"Well, I'm looking up something that happens very often. It seems monthly. It's some sort of disease," James answered.

"There's lots of diseases that could fit that. Think, what comes once every month?" Lily said.

"uummm…the sun—no that comes every day. The moon!" James said.

Lily nodded. "Now think what magical diseases come and go with the moon."

James thought hard, then realized what Lily was telling him. "A werewolf." He said defiantly.

Lily nodded "good, you're right."

James' face fell. Remus? A werewolf? How was it possible? James looked into Lily's knowing eyes. Lily knows he thought.

"Are their any other—erm—diseases?" James asked hopefully.

"Not that I can think of," Lily answered, leaning closer to James.

For a moment, he thought she was going to kiss him, but she bent low over the book he was reading.

"Look, it's right there," she said.

James looked down at his book.

A werewolf or" lycanthrope" is any human with the capacity to transform into an unusually ferocious wolf. Active only at night and under the full moon, it devours humans and livestock, ripping out their throats. Usually werewolves are passed on by bad genes in the family, a curse, or being bitten by a werewolf (see page 224 for treatment). As witch persecution became more popular across Europe, many were arrested and burned for being a werewolf. Werewolves usually prepare for their transformation by rubbing ointments made out of the belladonna root, deadly nightshade, bat's blood, cinquefoil, henbane, soon and many other unpleasant ingredients. Many people simply look like werewolves and only have a rare disease of the genes called hypertrichosis, or porphyria, but this is rarely the case. Werewolves usually leave marks on themselves from being unable to find any other victims.

Another passage read:

The word werewolf is a contraction of the old-Saxon word wer (which means, "man") and wolfwerwolf, manwolf. Another term lycanthrope, often used to describe werewolves, however, refers to someone who suffers from a mental disease of fantasizing being a wolf. This particular mental disorder is termed lycanthropy. Many healers believed that such melancholy could lead to insanity, hallucination and delusion. One healer recommended that the lycanthrope should be treated with baths, purging, bleeding, dietary measures; to promote a state of mental calmness, rubbing opium into the nostrils. In his1621's work entitled Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton, considered lycanthrope to be a form of madness, and he blamed every thing from sorcerers and witches to poor diet, bad air, sleeplessness and even lack of exercise.

James re-read the passage again, then looked at Lily.

"I know James, it's ok," she said.

"How did you find out?" James asked. "Will you keep it a secret?"

Lily nodded. "I wouldn't dream of telling anybody, and I hope no one else will find out."

James smiled, "thanks."

"No problem, are you going to talk to him about it?" Lily asked.

"Eventually," James said.

"Good, I hope he takes it ok." Lily said.

"You wanna walk back to the Common Room with me?" she asked.

"Sure, why not," James said.

The two friends exited the library and set off for the Gryffindor Tower. James walked at a normal pace, then suddenly realized that Lily wasn't there anymore. He turned around quickly.

"What's up Lils?" he asked.

"James, can you keep a secret?" Lily asked.

"Sure," James said, wondering what it was Lily had to tell him.

"Good, I've been needing someone to talk to for a long time about this," she said, her voice suddenly breaking.

James sort of stood there awkwardly, then Lily ran into his arms and hugged him tightly. James wrapped his arms around her.

"I'm just so scared," she said.

"James, I've been having these dreams lately. They all involve you, Sirius and Jade dying. I'm getting so scared. I don't know what to do! I don't want you guys to die! Oh and those are only the ones I started having at the beginning of the year. Now I'm dreaming about me holding a baby and crying, then a flash of green light, and I always wake up," Lily stopped for breath.

James looked shocked.

"Wow, where are these coming from?" he asked.

Lily shrugged. "I don't know!" she said hugging him tighter.

"Are you part seer?" James asked.

"I don't know, what's a seer?" Lily asked.

"Someone who can tell the future. The either have dreams about it or they predict things." James answered.

"I don't know." Lily sobbed.

"Well, forget about it, we can look up dreams tomorrow. I'll come help you." James said.

"One more thing James," Lily whispered.

They had suddenly come to the painting of the Fat Lady and Lily entered the Gryffindor Common Room.

"I really really like you ," Lily said.

"I really like you too," James answered. He was glad he could finally tell her he liked her. He screwed up all his courage for what he was about to do.

"Lily, do you want to be my girlfriend?" he asked suddenly.

Lily looked mildly shocked, but smiled nonetheless and said, "of course James Potter, I would love to."

James smiled, then felt as though he was on the clouds. He practically skipped up to his dorm, where Remus, Sirius and Peter were waiting for him.

"You've never taken that long to do an essay, what's up?" Sirius asked his happy friend.

"I asked Lily out," James said a bit stunned.

"Good job mate! What did she say?" Sirius asked.

"Yes!" James sang.

Sirius rolled his eyes., exchanged an exasperated look with Remus, and pulled the hangings shut over his bed.

Next Chapter: Christmas Break James, then Remus'.