Love Makes The World Go Round

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Chapter 3: End of Summer

"Lily! Wake up! You're going to be late!"

Lily glanced around the bright room in confusion before suddenly jumping up from her bed.

"Oh my gosh! What time is it?" Lily screamed.

"Well, you have about ten minutes before you have to leave for the train! Your father and I thought that you got up ages ago!" Lily's mother explained.

"Well I didn't!" Lily ran across the room, getting ready as fast as she could, certainly hoping that she wouldn't look like a big mess the first day back at Hogwarts.

Eight minutes later, Lily and her parents were out the door, driving to the station. Lily thought about how absolutely dreadful her seventh year at Hogwarts was starting. 'This is just great!' Lily thought, 'First, I got up late and look like a bloody pigeon ran into me and second, I have to spend the rest of the day with Potter, serving our head girl and boy duties! Just GREAT!' A tiny thought, however, nagged in Lily's mind- 'Hey, Potter is not that bad. At least he is better than Snape being head boy. Lily quickly threw away that thought and went back to discussing with her parents about the upcoming year.

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James waited for his mum and dad to get ready to leave. 'How much bloody time do they need? I've been waiting forever!' James had gotten up quite early, brightly waiting for the time in which he would leave his house and go back to what he thought as his "true home" of Hogwarts.

His parents, quite proud of the fact he had become head boy, thoroughly convinced that James was now more focused on schools than his outrageous pranks. Not that James' father minded his son's hoaxes. In fact, he rather enjoyed bragging about what new ingenious ideas and forms of mischief his son and his friends thought of. However, as James' mother had said, "Pranks are fine and dandy when everything is carefree in the world, but James is soon going to graduate and step into the real scary world."

In fact, James was not only hoping to step into the real and scary world, but was also hoping to jump into it and become immersed in it, with his dreams of becoming an auror. And the need for aurors was especially high lately, thanks to an evil wizard named Voldemort. James wanted to do what he could to protect the innocent people from the villain, who killed wizards, witches, and muggles for reasons such as not being a pureblood. 'That's absolutely ridiculous,' James thought to himself.

Of course, the thought of a non-pureblood witch or wizard automatically brought James' mind to Lily Evans. He found out lately that everything made him think of her. One moment he would be thinking about playing quidditch and then all of a sudden, that would remind him how Lily didn't really enjoy the quidditch matches and usually used the time to catch up on her studies. Of course, this left James brokenhearted. 'Now, now! Those days of feeling sorry for yourself are over! I am going to prove to Lily that I am different this year and perhaps she might start going to some of the matches this year!'

"Are you ready, son?"

James' thoughts were abruptly interrupted by his father's jolly voice.

"Yes, Dad. I've been waiting for so bloody long for you two!"

As James and his parents finally left for the train, James thoughts went to the fact that this would be his last year at Hogwarts and the last year that all of the Marauders would be together there. 'We have got to make this year the best, even if we can't do a lot of pranks!' He knew that Sirius was probably still fuming at him; however, Sirius would certainly perk up as soon as he was surrounded by his large fan club of girls. James glanced out the window of what muggles called an "automobile" and sighed, thinking of how the past six years have gone by too fast.

A/N: Thanks everyone for our feedback, especially Katie Weasley and Away With The Fairies4. You guys are great! I hoped you liked this chapter! The next one will be everyone on the train to Hogwarts! I'll probably finish and post it in a day or two! So please review- me LOVE YOU LONG TIME!!! =D