Disclaimer:

Ok........I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. The person who owns them is Rowling.

Ok......while I am writing I am currently hyperventilating because I'm supposed to visit my friend, Ivana's, house because our friend, Nao, moved to Japan last year and is visiting. But, I have no idea when to meet them today, and I'm waiting for Nao to call because there's no way I can currently contact her, and Ivana's on a plane back home from Taiwan! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So please don't be mad if this chapter is not as good as the other chapters.

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Ch 3. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia = fear of long words (oh the irony of the world!)

"ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Harry almost through the Marauder's Journal into the air as Ron "screamed" himself awake.

"Shut up Ron." the other six year Gryffindors grumbled.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked.

"The spiders! The spiders are after me Harry! Help me!" Ron trembled as he spoke.

"They're no spiders after you Ron. Go back to sleep." Harry replied.

"Please Harry! Please don't let me go back to sleep! The spiders will get me!" Ron was shaking really badly.

"Ron! They're no spiders out to get you! Now go back to sleep! I was reading and your screaming left me off at a cliffhanger!"

"Harry..they're really out to get me! And......wait.......what book are you reading?"

Harry held up the journal. "A book my father and his friends wrote."

"Can I read too?"

"Yeah......sure Ron."

As soon as Ron caught up to where Harry was at, they began to read Chapter 2.

The Marauder's Journal

Ch 2. Oh Padfoot, your advice was good, but not good enough.

James was waiting at Platform 9 3/4 for Lily to show up.

Sooner or later, Lily walked through the barrier with her mother and father.

"Have a good time, dear." they both said, hugged Lily, and left.

Lily made her way to the luggage compartment and James followed her.

"Good morning, Lily."

Lily jumped, and then noticed James. "What are you doing here Potter?"

"Helping you, Lily" James picked up Lily's luggage and placed it in the luggage compartment. It weighted as much as Padfoot's suitcase.

Padfoot: Stop mentioning about how heavy my suitcase is!

Prongs: But Padfoot, we're only stating a fact.

Moony: So true. Hey.......did you guys know that Wormtail has hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Wormtail: AH!

Padfoot & Prongs: What does that mean?

Moony: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia......

Wormtail: AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Moony: .......means fear of long words.

Prongs: Then hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia......

Wormtail: AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prongs: ......is quite ironic because hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia....

Wormtail: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prongs: .........is a long word itself.

Padfoot: Can we stop talking about hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia....

Wormtail: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Padfoot: ...before Wormtail wets himself in fear and continue on with the story?

Prongs: Why yes.

"Potter, call me by my surname." Lily frowned at James.

"Lily," James smiled back, "I'm trying to become your friend, and show you I do indeed have a nicer side. Now, if we're going to be friends, we should stop calling each other by our surnames and call each other by our first names instead."

"James," Lily said his name with extremely pain. How hard is it to get out my first name? James wondered. "I do not believe you do have a nicer side. Unless you can change your personality, you're still a mean bullying toerag, AND I'll agree to being your friend, but that won't make a difference. I'll still refuse to go out with you."

She said my first name! James thought and once again smiled at Lily. "Lily, I have changed my personality, and I know this is hard for you to believe, but I will show you eventually."

Lily glared at him. "James, as I said before, I would not go out with you if I had a choice between you or the giant squid." She turned her back on him and walked into a compartment with her friends.

"It didn't work?" Sirius looked at James in disbelief, "She must really hate you, mate."

James grumbled, "I was nice to her, I called her by her first name! What more does she want?! Padfoot, you said that if she became my friend, it would be easy for me to get her to go out with me, but it seems that even though we're now friends, she still loathes me."

Remus Lupin looked at James and then at Sirius in disgust. "Padfoot, your ideas are horrible. You think Lily would go out with Prongs just because he's nice to her and calls her by her first name! That might work for you, Padfoot, but that's because most of the girls you date already have a crush on you."

Sirius leaned forward. "Then what would you suggest?"

Remus leaned forward as well. "I agree with your idea of being nice to her, but gradually get her trust. Eventually, when she fully trusts you, wait until the opportune moment, and ask her out."

"And when's the opportune moment Moony?" Sirius asked.

"When she fully trusts you, and starts to show feelings you."

"And what happens if she never shows feelings for Prongs?"

"Then Prongs doomed. Or you could make her like you, but that would take some extreme measures that I'm not willing to go through."

James leaned back in his chair. "Lily will never go out with me!"

Peter Pettigrew looked up, "That's the 147th time you've said that."

James glared at Peter, "And may I remind you that you have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?"

Peter screamed.

Sirius turned from Remus to James, "For god sake Prongs! Stop saying hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia! (Peter screamed again)! The last time you scared Wormtail with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (Peter screamed) he wet himself in fear! It's not Wormtail's fault that his phobia, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (Peter screamed) is such a long word!"

Sirius kept on scolding James about how not to torture Peter using hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, and continues to say hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia in every sentence he used. Peter continued screaming until Remus, who was beginning to have a headache, screamed, "Quit it Padfoot! You're scaring Wormtail more than Prongs was!"

Sirius stopped talking, totally embarrassed.

"Hey! That's the 147th time Padfoot's done something like that." James cried.

"Don't use your lucky number against me Prongs." Padfoot replied.

"Can we get back to the real subject!" Moony screamed, "Which was Prongs trying to get Lily to go out with him!"

They all fell silent.

"Prongs, if you really want Lily to go out with you, listen to my advice." Remus said.

"Will it be as bad as Padfoot's?" James inquired.

"No, it's better."

"Will it cause Lily to fling herself upon me and kiss me one million times?"

Remus frowned. "James, if that's what you think, it's no wonder why Lily won't go out with you."

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Ooh……..Remus has advice too!

The next chapter will be up as soon as I can get it up.

I love hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia! It's such an ironic phobia!

47 is the quintessential random number of the universe according to one of my friends, so that's why there's 147.

Anyway, READ and REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!