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The Gryffindor Quidditch team won the game against Ravenclaw by 100 points. The match had lasted over an hour and afterwards, James didn't stop speaking of it for many more.

This meant that Gryffindors also won the Quidditch cup, which meant there was a party in the common room later on. All of the drinks and sweets were Courtesy of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, of course.

Exams were stressful for Lily, who kept panicking and waking up in the middle of the night to make sure she hadn't forgotten things. She ended up graduating the top of the year. With Ophelia second.

The day before the train left, Jade spent the day in silence, in her room, not coming down for any meals. She packed away her things slowly and with much caution. Her photo album... a rose that Sirius had given her perfectly preserved by magic... her posters of the Holyhead Harpies quidditch team... removing her favourite stones that she had collected from the grounds when she was younger from her window ledge... an eagle feather she had found, stuck in between the pages of a book so it would not spoil.... and in the evening, she wept, silently.

* Along the side of her bed frame, using her wand, she wrote;

Jade Lorien, my true home from 19- to 19- and forever.

The next morning Jade ate a large breakfast, having something from each dish. Tasting everything. Her last Hogwarts breakfast.

"Come on, let's get a cabin on the train." Remus told Ophelia, putting his arms around her shoulder. They walked off ahead of the group and got the very last compartment of the train for the group.

Remus, Ophelia, Lily, James, Sirius, Jade, and Peter all squeezed into the compartment. The good thing about it was, there was a large window at the back as well as the side so as the train moved further and further away, Jade got a shrinking image of the Castle, if only for a little while.

"Ah, our last train ride." Remus said.

"On to bigger and better things." James said.

"And bigger and better pranks." Sirius added.

"On who? Your boss at your work? You'd get fired."

"Only if we get caught." James said, brushing the comment away.

"Besides," Sirius said. "How often do we get caught? We're invincible."

"What about when you guys put a rat down Susanne Morgan's shirt?" Ophelia asked.

"Or when you used Snape as an example of just how many hexs a person can endure before passing out in front of the DADA class because the Professor had fallen ill and you decided you would substitute?" Lily asked.

"Or the time when you gave Professor Sedley a blue beard?" Jade asked.

"That was you!" Sirius cried.

"Oh yeah... well what about-"

But Sirius had put his hand to her mouth to stop her.

"The point is, we haven't be caught in the past two years for any pranks at all." said James.

It started to rain.

By the way... in the last post I put that Jade went to school from 19- to 19-. This is because I was unsure of when the Marauders went to school and i was too lazy to look it up. Sorry for any confusion.

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The Hogwarts express slowed to stop and Jade sighed. The rain was coming down harder than ever now.

Everyone stood up and stretched their legs, leaving the compartment. Jade lingered.

"Come on." Sirius said, taking her hand in his. "Hogwart's was all of our homes, and I can almost guarantee that we'll be back."

Jade smiled and they walked out of the compartment and off of the train together.

"Well, I'm going home. Time to unpack and what-not." Jade said an hour later when she had said her goodbyes to everyone in her year.

Jade apperated to her house in West France. It was very empty and plain. She put her trunk in her room and then decided that she needed to make her house more cheerful.

Jade went around opening all of the drapes and all of the windows. She apperated into a jungle somewhere on the Pacific Rim and collected bamboo, orchids and other exotic flowers. Then she came back and put them in glasses and set them around her home.

Everyone went to Potter's house for dinner that night. It was a feast. Full of laughter, good food, and many funny impressions of other students they didn't like. Mainly Slytherins, and mainly Snivellus.

James hit his glass with the side of his spoon a few times to get every one's attention. "I have a very important announcement to make!"

Lily kicked him in the shin.

"Ow!" He said. "Alright, Lily and I have a very special announcement to make."

She beamed up at him.

"We're engaged!" She cried. Everyone started hooting and clapping as they kissed.

"I was going to tell them!" James said.

"You were taking too long!"