A/NI'm sososososososososososo sorry! I was grounded from the internet for bad grades and didn't get it back until yesterday! I have many chapters written so please don't abandon me!So who wants to know how the story ends? Anyone? Well too bad! I'm not going to tell so ha! However my benefactor who goes by the name of Hannah, or Q.P. Love Doctor, and I have concocted the end of this story and the beginnings of the sequel series.

Chapter Seventeen: The Rest Of Our Lives

"I went to find the pot of gold,

That's waiting where the rainbow ends.

I searched and searched and searched and searched

And searched and searched, and then—

There it was deep in the grass,

Under an old and twisty bough.

It's mine, it's mine, it's mine at last…

What do I search for now?"

"Mate are you feeling okay?" Sirius looked at James worriedly. The Marauders were sitting under the beech tree enjoying the May sunshine.

"What? It was just a poem." James tore his eyes from lake where Lily and her friends sat. "It's by a muggle named Shel Sylverstein."

"Aha. Sure." Sirius looked skeptical.

Aden glanced at the four figures linking arms and sitting by the waters edge. "What do you think they do to help one another?"

His friends looked perplexed. Why would Aden think of such a question? Why hadn't it occurred to them before?

"I'm sure it's some sort of closely guarded secret." Remus said conspiratorily.

"What's that?" James pointed to the sky above the Forbidden Forest. As they turned their heads to look a cloud was dispersed by something flying through the air. Then as if from no where a dragon came from behind the cloud issuing brilliant blue flames. It wove in and out a blur of shimmer, it's skin nearly the same color as the azure sky.

Dumbledore came out of the building and cursed as he saw the dragon rest on the ground. It padded over to the lake and began to take long draughts from the water. The lake water steamed and bubbled where the dragon's snout touched the water.

Hagrid joined Dumbledore to watch the spectacle of a dragon sitting by the lake licking it's lips and smiling broadly.

"I think it may have gotten one of the merpeople." Aden said chuckling slightly.

"Hagrid, is it normal for Sweedish Short Snouts to drink from school lakes and grin drunkenly?" Dumbledore smiled uncertainly.

"No, I don' think so." He rumbled and walked over to the glittering dragon. It had walked over to Lily and her friends and was sniffing Andromeda's hair.

"Ahhhhh!" She cried as it nudged her head toward the lake. The dragon continued to try and get students to go into the lake.

Hagrid reached the dragon and listened as it grunted mournfully. Hagrid started laughing and wiped tears of mirth from his eyes. "Why wouldn' yeh know it? 'E jus' wants to play! 'E's bored 'e says."

As if to demonstrate the dragon hobbled into the lake and started splashing anyone on shore. It swam happily for over an hour until someone came to bring the dragon to a reserve.

Later that evening after the girls were dry and still giggling they sat down in front of the fire to warm up.

"The man from the dragon reserve said Joey, that's the dragon, was always running off like that. A little boy found the egg and raised it till it was too big to hide. Apparently it instilled a playful nature, and Joey's a vegetarian." Andromeda said finering a scale that had dropped off of Joey. It was a glittering blue and nearly as big as her hand. In the firelight it looked like a piece of the sky had fallen.

"How odd." Lily said thoughtfully. "Maybe it's a sign."

"Of what?" Hannah asked skeptically.

"Of better things to come." Jen said wistfully. "Of happier times and mended hearts."

"Yeah…" Lily thought of the dried red roses hanging on her bed post and blushed.

"Of Seventh year." James says to his friends across the room. Naturally they had overheard the conversation.

"Of courage." Aden glanced quickly across the room, her brown hair sparkled.

"Of healing." Remus adds.

"Of the rest of our lives." Sirius finishes and the four silently agree.

The End

A/N There it is the end of Sixth year and the end of this story. But fear not, I'm treating the next story as a direct continuation. It will be posted soon! Just like a normal update. The next story is called Where the Sidewalk Ends so check my profile it will be there!

GoldenLocket14

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