A/N: Now, I surprised myself when I decided to update. I was just planning on a day of relaxation and laziness and yet I found myself typing up this chapter. I'm addicted to the computer! I've been trying to stay away from the computer like one of my friends, but unfortunately, it's impossible for me too.
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Chapter 5
The Ride Back.
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Lily was standing on platform 9 ¾ when somebody covered her eyes from behind and said, "Guess Who?"
"Maria, I know it's you."
"Darn, I'm caught." Said Maria.
"Hey Lil." Said Stacy.
"Well, well, well, look who's here." Said Sirius, picking up Stacy in one smooth move.
Stacy giggled. "Sirius, baby, you better put me down or people will be talking."
"I want the whole world to know that we're dating and that I'm not available."
"Duh, of course you're not available. Who do you think you're dating, a cow?"
"If you are a cow, then you're a very beautiful one."
"Oh Sirius."
Lily and Maria looked at each other with their eyebrows raised. Then they burst out giggling.
"What?" Stacy said.
"Oh nothing." Said Maria quickly.
"So Sirius, where's the rest of your gang?" asked Lily, changing the subject.
"Right here." Said another male voice. It was James with Peter.
"Oh, hey Prongsie, where's our dear friend Moony?" said Sirius, finally putting Stacy down.
"Actually, I got no clue." Said James, looking around.
"Hi James, how was your summer?" said Maria. She didn't actually like the Marauders but decided if she wanted to warm up to Remus then she would have to be nice to the rest of the gang.
"Very nice, I had such fun, I wish it never ended." Said James.
Lily didn't hear what James said. "James, honey, could you help me with my trunk?" said Lily, trying to drag her trunk onto the train.
Everybody stared at her.
"Wha-, do I have something on my face? Why ya'll staring?" said Lily, diving into her purse for a mirror.
"No, there's nothing on your face." Said Stacy finally.
"Then what is it?"
"You called James honey."
"I did? Oops." Said Lily.
"It's okay; they were bound to find out sooner or later. Better to be sooner." Said James, putting his arm around Lily.
"What is going on?" said Sirius.
"I must be dreaming." Said a new voice. "James and Lily, not fighting." Then he saw James's arm around Lily. "What's going on?" he asked.
"That's what I'd like to know." Said Maria.
Remus, Sirius, Maria, Stacy, and Peter were all looking at the couple expectantly.
"Who's gonna tell 'em?" Lily asked James.
"You tell them."
"Why me?"
"Because they'll think I'm joking."
"Oh, right."
"Just tell us." Squeaked Peter.
"All right. Well, you see, James and I are—
"Dating." Finished James.
"WHAT?" screeched Stacy.
Maria didn't day anything. Instead, she accidentally stepped back and tripped over her trunk. "Ouch."
Nobody even noticed that Maria was on the floor.
"All right Prongs! Way to go man!" said Sirius, holding up his hand in a high-five motion.
Now everybody stared at him.
"What? You're not gonna leave me hangin' are you?" said Sirius.
James didn't answer because the whistle for boarding was blown.
"Come on, we gotta find a compartment."
They boarded the train and found an unoccupied compartment.
Once the train began moving, Sirius continued the discussion. "So James, Lily was the mystery woman?"
"Yep."
"Dang Lily, the way you were behaving, I would have never guessed that you were going out with him." Said Stacy.
"Well, who would have?" said Remus.
"Phew. At least we don't have too put the plan to work to get them together." Said Maria.
"You were already planning?" said Lily.
"Well, how were we supposed to get any work done when you two were always bickering?" said Stacy.
"So what was the plan?" said Maria.
"Not telling you."
"Oh well."
"Hey Lily?" said Maria. "Aren't you supposed to be at the prefect meeting?"
"Damn, I forgot." Said Lily. "I better go."
"Prongs, you gotta go to." Said Remus.
"Why?" said Lily.
"Come on, lets just go." Said James, steering her out of the compartment.
"Why do you need to go to the meeting?" asked Lily.
"I'm Head Boy."
"No? Seriously? I'm Head Girl."
"I knew you would be."
"So why didn't you tell me?"
"I wanted it to be a surprise."
"Well I'm surprised."
They reached the compartment here the meeting was going to be held. When they entered, all the prefects were already there. Lily and James explained the rules and what they were supposed to. Soon they were done and Lily and James went back to their compartment.
"How was the meeting?" asked Remus.
"Boring." Answered James.
"It was not!" said Lily.
"Well, what was so nice about it?"
"It was neat and organized and—
"It was not. That Slitherin tripped that Hufflepuff girl on purpose! I can't wait to get him in detention."
"Well, besides that—
Lily and James started arguing.
"Oh not again." Maria moaned, covering her ears.
"I thought that they weren't gonna fight if they went out." Said Sirius miserably.
"Hey, Lily, James. Ya'll are dating for heavens sakes. You really need to stop with all the arguing. You're actin' like little children. Lily, you should know better. James, well, you were born immature so I can't help you."
"Hey." Said James. "That's mean."
"He is not immature." Said Lily heatedly. "He can act his age sometimes. If he wants to. If he's under the threat of me."
"Thank you. At least somebody's defending-WHAT! I can act my age by myself without anyone's help, thank you very much."
"Oh please, somebody always has to remind you."
The arguing started again.
"Here we go again." Said Maria.
"Maybe we should put the plan into action." Said Stacy.
"Why?"
"Because they're still arguing."
"What was the plan?" asked Sirius.
"It's very drastic and top secret. And hopefully we won't have to put it in action."
"How drastic?" said Remus.
"Very."
"Maybe we should try it?"
"Nah, it won't work. It's to get them together, but they're already together."
"Hey I have an idea." Said Sirius, taking out his wand.
"What is it?"
"Just watch." Sirius waved his wand and said, "Silencio."
The spell shut James up.
"Silencio."
Lily couldn't talk either.
"There, that's so much better. What's that James? I didn't hear you?" said Sirius.
Since James couldn't say anything, he got out his wand and tried to reverse the spell. It only worked partway so he could only whisper.
"I'll kill you Padfoot. Now get this charm off me." James whispered in a barely heard hoarse voice.
"You gotta promise us not to argue with Lily. This goes for you too, Lily."
Lily nodded.
"You promise?"
Lily nodded again.
"Okay then." Stacy lifted the spell from Lily.
"What about me?" James whispered.
"Maybe we should keep him this way." Suggested Remus. "It's so quiet in here when he's not talking for a change."
James looked ready to kill.
Sirius and Remus were about to taunt him more when Lily lifted the charm.
"Thanks Lil." Said James.
"No problem. This is one of the good parts of being my boyfriend."
"Wow, I'm one lucky man." Said James sarcastically.
Lily punched him playfully.
The rest of the journey they just talked about everything. James and Sirius were already planning the start of the school year prank.
"Now James, this year is different." Said Lily.
"How?"
"Well, it's our last year here."
"And..."
"No pranks. You're Head Boy so act like one."
"This is what we feared." Said Sirius.
"Yep, James has turned good." Remus finished for him.
"So long, buddy. A year of work and boredom awaits you, you goody two shoes." Said Sirius.
"Padfoot, you better be nice or the first prank will be on you and not the Slitherins." Said James.
"Ooh, I'm so scared." Said Sirius, trying to hide behind Stacy.
"Well, what do we have here?' said a highly unpleasant voice.
All of them whipped around and looked at the figure that was standing in the doorway.
"Snivellus." Sirius hissed venomously. "Shouldn't you be with your friends? Oh I forgot, you don't have any."
"Watch your mouth you filthy blood traitor."
Sirius was about to pounce on him but Stacy held him back.
"It's not worth it." Stacy said.
"Go on now. You're gonna listen to a girl? Your standards are even lower than I thought."
"Well at least he's not a slimy bitch that goes crying to his mommy when somebody says something bad about him." Said Lily.
"Shut up you mudblood, nobody even asked your opinion." Said Snape.
"She can talk if she wants to talk." Said James, springing up to his feet.
"What Snivellus, your vocabulary is so small the only word you know is mudblood.' Said Stacy.
"My vocabulary, so unlike yours, consists of more than one letter." Snap shot back.
"Go and bother somebody else. We don't have time to associate with people of such a lower class as you." Said Maria.
"Just because you hang out with the biggest brats and troublemakers doesn't give you the right to name call people."
"Buzz off." Said Lily.
"And what if I won't?"
"Then you will remember some old memories." Said James, taking out his wand.
Snape took out his wand too but James was too quick for him.
"Frolinpa." James yelled. [A/N: I just made up the spell.]
Almost immediately Snape's face was covered with blisters that were popping with force. Snape yelled and started running back to his compartment although he didn't get far. Remus had already whipped out his wand and conjured up a tripping jinx. Snape hit the floor hard.
"That serves him right." Said Remus calmly, putting his wand back into his pocket.
"Man, you should have left him to me." Said Sirius.
"No, if we let you hit him with a curse, the result would have been more horrible." Said Stacy.
By this time, Snape had already gotten off the floor. "You will pay." He growled. His face was still very red and black from all the blisters.
"We'll see who pays."
Saying nothing else, Snape got up and left.
"Well, that was fun." Said James.
"I hate to admit it but it was." Said Lily.
"Now we had better watch out." Said Stacy. "God knows what he's gonna do to get us back."
"Maybe we should make the first prank more cruel." Said Remus.
"Why don't you tell us what it is? We can help." Said Maria.
"Well I suppose you can." Said Sirius slowly.
"Please?" said Lily.
"Well..." James said.
Lily pouted her lip and gave James a puppy dog look.
"OH, you know I can't resist that." Said James. "All right, but no interruptions while we talk."
The Marauders told the girls the plan.
"That's too simple and not embarrassing enough." Said Maria, surprising the rest. She was known as the 'nice girl'.
"I think it'll work." Said Lily.
"Fine, then lets get to work." Said James.
"How about we play our prank next week so as to have the teachers think that we have become more mature." Suggested Sirius.
"I like the way you think. Now what ingredients will we need? We have to get work on this?"
"you're Not working on it now, we have arrived at Hogwarts. Save the work for later." Said Remus.
They went outside and got lost in the crowd. Fortunately, they found each other once again and got a carriage.
"Hey, where's Lily?" asked Maria.
"Where is she?" wondered James out loud. "I'll go look for her." James stepped out of the carriage and started looking for her. He found her trying to fight her way through the crowd.
"Where were you?" James asked as they were heading to their carriage.
"Um, I got lost." Said Lily, clutching the little black book that she was holding.
"What's that?" James saw the book.
"Nothing, lets get into the carriage."
They got inside and rode back to Hogwarts.
As Lily stood on the front steps, she felt that she was truly at home.
"Come on Lily, let's take our seats in the Great Hall." Said Maria, giving Lily a little push.
The group went and took their seats. First the first years got sorted into their houses and then Dumbledore stood up to make a speech.
"I welcome you back to Hogwarts. For some of you, this is your last year here. For others, it is their first. For some, you're halfway through. Now I would like to remind you that the Forbidden forest is Forbidden. I hope that our older students will learn that someday." Dumbledore looked at the marauders. The Marauders grinned. "Also, our new Head Girl and Head Boy are Lily Evans and James Potter."
Lily and James stood up and everyone applauded. Then they sat back down and listened to Dumbledore.
"Filch has kindly reminded me for the 1,136th time that no magic can be performed in between classes. Also, he has also reminded me that nobody is allowed to touch Mrs.Norris, least of all kick her or lock her in a suit of armor.
The Great Hall rang with laughter at this announcement.
"Yes, yes, it is very funny but please give some respect to our beloved cat." Dumbledore's mouth was twitching as though he was his very best not to start laughing himself. "Now, dig in."
Food appeared on the four tables.
"I wonder who did that to Mrs.Norris." said Lily.
"Who cares?' put in James. "She got what she deserved."
"Actually, I did it." Said Stacy quietly.
"WHAT!" Maria yelled.
"No." Sirius was staring at Stacy as though she was some kind of goddess.
"Well, you see, one time last year, I was coming back to our tower from by date with, well, from my date and Mrs.Norris was there, meowing very loudly. So I kicked her and ran. I don't know who locked her in a suit of armor though."
"I did." Said Remus very quietly.
Now all heads were turned at him.
"Well, I was on a date and I saw that she was kicked and then I locked her in."
"Remus, who's the lucky girl?" asked Sirius through a mouthful of food.
Both Remus and Stacy turned a brilliant pink. They quickly stole a glance at each other, turned even redder and dug into their food.
"What? Aren't you going to tell us?" demanded James. He seemed to have noticed nothing.
Remus didn't answer.
Suddenly Lily understood who was with whom. "Stacy? You never told me about who you were with."
"I didn't, wait, yes I did."
"Well anyway, I know who it is now." Lily was grinning.
"It's over and we broke up, although we're still friends. Please don't tell Maria." Stacy whispered urgently.
"Okay. Why?"
"I don't want her to think that I still am dating him, even though I'm not. And besides, if she doesn't know, it might give her more courage to ask him."
"Okay, I won't tell. But are you sure that it's over?"
"Yes. Completely over."
"Okay, I trust you."
What are you whispering about?" said Maria.
"What, oh nothing." Said Stacy.
"I wasn't whispering, I was eating." Said Lily, picking up her fork and getting some spaghetti.
The rest of the feast passed without anything unusual happening. James and Sirius were still trying to get Remus to spill who he was with that night, although Remus didn't tell. They finished their food and went up to the Gryffindor tower. The password was 'full moon'. Remus shuddered when Lily said the password. They said good night and went up to their dorm.
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In the girl's dorm
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"Hey, you guys wanna play a prank on Snivellus?" said Lily.
"Sure, what kind?"
Lily told them about it and held up the little black book.
"Oh my god, he is gonna be so embarrassed."
"Wait, have the Marauders played a prank like this?"
"I don't think so."
"Nah, they didn't."
"okay, then should we put it to action?"
"Sure, we'll get up early tomorrow."
The girls exchanged good nights and went to sleep.
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The boy's dorm
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"I can't wait till we play the prank. The slime balls won't even see it coming." Sirius was jumping up and down like a maniac.
"Well, wait till next week." Said Peter.
"Do we have to?" said James.
"Maybe we should do it tomorrow." Said Remus.
"At dinner. Nobody would expect that."
"Okay, so it's set? Tomorrow at dinner."
"Yes."
"Excellent." James smiled mischievously.
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A/N: HA HA HA! You must be dying to know what the prank is gonna be! Well, I'm gonna have some fun with this. No reviews, no next chappies. HA HA HA! I'm so evil. So do yourself and me a favor: REVIEW!