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"Don't be such a git Wormtail," Sirius muttered amusedly as he threw a fizzing whizbee at his head, which Wormtail unsuccessfully avoided.

"Why am I being a git? All I said was…" Wormtail responded, opening the candy which had rebounded off his head.

"We know what you said Wormtail," Remus interrupted, "which is why you are a git. Evans hasn't placed James under a spell."

"Well why is it I can't talk normally around people?" James asked frustratedly.

The boys were milled around an oak tree outside, enjoying their first Saturday afternoon at Hogwarts, talking about James inability to converse intelligently with Lily Evans. Remus, along with Peter and Sirius had again witnessed James undergo another earbashing from Lily due to James' comment that her mood may have coincided with another event that happens monthly, other than the full moon. As could be imagined, Lily did not take it too well.

James leant back on the tree and sighed exasperatedly, "anytime I try and say something to her, my brain freezes, and the only thing it can find to say is the most inappropriate and unintelligent thing possible."

"To be fair," Sirius said, "you do suit those type of comments amazingly well. I'm sure you could find a woman that matched your stupidity…"

Unfortunately Sirius was prevented from finishing, due to the fact that James, had transfigured the whizbee in his mouth into a sock, so that he could no longer speak.

Remus chuckled as Sirius gagged on the sock, "and you can talk normally around women James. You can hold a conversation with McGonagall extremely well, and impress her so that you worm your way out of trouble."

"Yeah but I don't want to snog McGonagall," James replied.

The boys all laughed, "well that may be your problem then Prongs," Peter provided.

"You could just try and think about other things Lily has to offer, instead of that," Remus suggested.

"I know, close your eyes," Sirius said turning to James, his eyes gleaming with the look he got when he had an idea.

Remus looked at Sirius, confused and shrugged when James looked to him for an explanation.

"I'm not closing my eyes," James replied warily.

"Just do it, before I force them close," Sirius threatened lightly.

"Fine," James said as he closed his eyes.

Peter looked at Remus and then between James and Sirius, and back to Remus, who again just shrugged in response.

Remus gained Sirius' attention, and looked at him enquiringly. Sirius grinned at him in answer of the unasked question, causing Remus to roll his eyes in amusement. He knew Sirius had something planned, and although not sure exactly what, he knew it would be worth it.

"Am I just going to lie here all day or are you going to hurry up and continue whatever it is that you have in mind," James said impatiently.

"Now now, James, be patient. Lesson one with girls, don't rush them."

"Wow Padfoot, I didn't know you considered yourself to be a girl. You must have been hiding things rather well over the last seven years." James laughed.

"Funny," Sirius brushing off the remark unconcerned, "Ok. Now picture in your mind the main things that go through your mind when you think of Lily."

James smirked, "well, this certainly isn't as painful as I thought."

Sirius smirked, "Okay, now you have that picture in your head?"

James nodded, a goofy look covering his face.

"Okay, now keep that image but imagine her wearing tartan robes, about 30 years older and looking remarkably like McGonagall."

James jerked his head up, and started to choke on the fizzing whizbee he had been sucking on, causing Remus, Peter and Sirius to fall about laughing.

"There, now everytime you talk to Lily, you can imagine that and maybe have a normal conversation with her."

James glared at him, "that is something I never want to imagine again. Are you trying to scar me for life?"

"Well, I never said it was the perfect approach to your situation," Sirius shrugged, smiling at James.

James got up and pounced on Sirius, so that they were wrestling on the ground. Sirius in stitches from laughing, and James looking like he was going to strangle Sirius for making him see things, that Remus assumed, just shouldn't be seen.

Remus turned to Peter who was watching James and Sirius with raptured attention. It never ceased to amaze Remus, how much Peter idolised James and Sirius. Although, he was not as bad as he was a few years ago, he still worshipped the ground that those boys walked on. But, despite what some people believed, that wasn't the reason they were friends with him.

"So what do you think we should get up to tonight?" Remus asked.

"Hogsmeade visit?" Peter suggested, pulling his eyes away from James and Sirius who had now started chasing each other around the grounds like 5 year olds.

"Mmm, be nice to pay Rosmerta a visit," Remus grinned.

"That it would," Peter agreed.

Remus felt a thud in his shoulder as Sirius crashed into them, due to the tripping hex James had placed on him.

"That's it," Remus muttered, placing a jelly legs curse on James in response, signaling an all in brawl.

Although the four boys had spent a rather chaotic afternoon with each other, they were still keen to make a trip into Hogsmeade.

Remus, James and Sirius had gathered under the cloak in the common room. Since the boys had mastered their animagus form, Peter tended to transfigure into a rat to free up the room under the cloak. When they were young, the cloak had covered the four boys perfectly. But now it barely managed to cover three of them, let alone four.

"Have you got the map?" Remus asked.

"Bugger," James muttered, "it's in my bag in the Head's Room, come on."

The boys climbed through the passageway into the Head's Room. Just as Sirius was about to pull off the cloak from covering the three of them, they heard a noise coming from one of the lounges near the fire.

Remus saw Lily curled up into a ball, sobbing to herself as she rocked slightly. The three boys glanced at each other and retreated from the room slowly.

Once in the empty Gryffindor common room, James pulled off the cloak and handed it to his friends, "Go without me, I'm going to see what's wrong with Lily."

Sirius looked at him, "do you think that's wise? I don't think she wants to be around anyone."

Remus was surprised somewhat at Sirius' sensitivity. Although he didn't know what was upsetting Lily, he didn't think James approaching her would help the situation any.

"Maybe not, but I can't leave her in there by herself, and if she wants me to leave I have no doubt that she will tell me to sod off," James replied, his voice showing his concern.

The three boys nodded, and Remus watched as his friend climbed back through the portrait hole, leading to the Head's Room. It never ceased to surprise Remus how much James had grown up in

the last year, and how willing James was to step into a possible war zone, when he sensed something was wrong.

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