Author's Note: People Pay ATTENTION! This is my first Fanfic, so therefore, I'm terrified! Please do not review with the sole purpose of completely destroying me. I don't mind constructive criticism, I just don't want straight insults, ok?
This fic starts with the OoP Chapter Snape's Worst Memory. Basically its yet another James/ Lily Fic, combined with new characters and old friends, (and enemies). If you want the beginning of the story, read that chapter again and stop when Lily walks away, then start reading this from the beginning, ok?
Disclaimer: Listen people, if I owned Harry Potter, do you think I'd be writing it here? I DON'T! So please don't sue me, I have nothing! Zero, Zip, Zilch, Nada, Cero!
P. S. I own characters you don't recognize, but the rest are the work of the goddess of fantasy, J. K. Rowling.
Now without further ado...LIFE (Or Something Like That) at Hogwarts
Chapter 1: The Girls Go to the Kitchen
"Urghhh!" That Potter. Why does he always insist on annoying me so much?
"Looks like you gave up again, Lil."
"I didn't give up, Chandra, I decided he wasn't worth my time." Lily scowled.
Chandra shrugged, her dark eyes sparkling mischievously.
"They're doing it, aren't they?" Lily asked.
"Girl, I am so not looking past you to check. Ewwww!" Chandra wrinkled her nose in disgust.
Lily sighed in exasperation and rolled her eyes. She chanced a look over her shoulder as Cara and Jen joined them behind the beech tree. "Not yet."
Cara tossed her waist length braid over her shoulder and started puling it apart as she spoke. "Lily, why didn't you ask Remus to help?"
"Yeah," added short little Jen. "He's a prefect too, maybe he can stop them."
Lily rolled her eyes toward the beech tree and Remus' still- reading form. "Because, he'd probably say something like 'give up, Lils, they're impossible' and stick his nose back into 'The Secrets of Lycanthropy: Revealed.'"
"What's he so interested in werewolves for anyway?" asked Chandra as the walked toward the castle.
"You don't think he found out about me, do you?" Cara whispered, her face going pale. "If he has..."
Lily wrapped a comforting arm around Cara's shoulders. "He hasn't, Care Bear. The only ones who know are the three of us, Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Madam Pomfrey. I know they wouldn't tell, and we certainly haven't," the other girls shook their heads, "and who else could've found out?"
Cara still looked worried.
"Besides," added Chandra, "even if he did know, Remus wouldn't tell anyone. As you are constantly reminding us, he's the nice marauder."
Her teasing was rewarded by a slight blush and a smile from Cara. "You're right. Remus wouldn't do that to anybody." she sighed. "I'm beginning to think it's impossible for him to be mean or cruel to anybody."
Lily's eyes sparkled. "If only those great lugs he calls friends would take lessons from him. My life would be so much simpler." The other girls laughed along with her as they ascended the steps to the castle.
"Girls," said Jen breathlessly, "I don't know about you, but I'd kill for a chocolate éclair right now." Chandra nodded as she reached for the door handle. "First stop, Hogwarts kitchens!"
The girls headed through the entrance hall and through several secret passageways to the entrance to the kitchens. Chandra tickled the pear and the girls climbed inside. The aroma of cooking dinner wafted around the room as a small figure hurried over to them.
"Hello Misses," squeaked the house- elf. "What can Pollux do for Misses today?"
"Hey Pollux." they chorused.
"Could we get some éclairs, Pollux?" asked Cara.
"And a apple or peach, perhaps?" asked Lily.
"Certainly Misses. Pollux will be right back." Pollux hurried off toward the center of the kitchens.
Lily looked around the room, thinking. What Chandra had said about Remus was still puzzling her. He couldn't have found out about Cara, could he? He would have said something to me. He said himself he tells me almost everything. Maybe that's one of the things he hasn't told me. If he knows, if Cara finds out, she'll be heartbroken. It's not exactly a secret among the girls that she really likes him.
Lily's thinking was interrupted by Pollux tugging at her sleeve. "We has some peaches, Miss Evans." he squeaked handing her one of the fuzzy fruits.
"Thanks Pollux." She noticed that Chandra, Cara and Jen were all eating éclairs already. "Ready to go, ladies?"
They all nodded, filled out of the portrait, and headed toward Gryffindor tower.
"Mmmmmm." mumbled Jen.
"Two words." agreed Chandra. "Yummy and Delicious."
"If you like junk food." said Lily. "Which I don't."
"That just proves you are not from this planet, Lils." said a voice.
Lily turned. Remus was standing there, having (yet again) appeared seemingly out of nowhere. "Will you stop doing that!" she exclaimed.
"Sorry." he mumbled and looked around at the rest of the girls. "Hi Chandra, Jen," he smiled. "Cara."
"Hey." chorused Chandra and Jen. Cara remained silent, staring at him with wide eyes, and nodded.
Lily cleared her throat. "What do you got there, Remus?" she asked, indicating the book in his hands.
"Transfiguration. I figured I'd beg Peter to help me study." He didn't look very excited about it.
"That's tomorrow, isn't it?" said Jen.
"Yup. Lily looked depressed. "My worst subject."
Chandra smiled evilly. "James would help you study." she teased.
"Yeah," agreed Remus. "He says his studying offer still stands."
"No thanks." said Lily. "I'd rather fail."
"Well, I have to go." said Remus. "But I'll pass along the message, Lils."
"Bye Remus!" cried Chandra and Jen as he disappeared behind a curtain.
Cara watched him leave, then sighed. "I don't know why I can't talk around him. I think he knows something is up with me."
"Don't worry about it," said Jen. "I know Remus, we grew up together, and he just thinks you're shy."
"I hope so."
"Come on, let's go to the common room and study for that Transfiguration exam. Knowing O.W.L.s, it's gonna be hard." groaned Lily.
"You'll survive." said Jen.
The girls headed to the common room and spent the afternoon studying their hardest and least favourite subject.
Author's Note: So, What do you all think? Please Read and Review!!!
