The Marauding Five Year Seven Chapter 5: Metamorphosis, a harry potter fanfic

Note of Considerable Importance: Firstly, let's just say that if you look from my point, this'll be taking a wonderful turn of a mountain end's ride. Dos, I'm not at all responsible for this late chapter: the Marauders are. They had the cheek to spoil ALL my advanced math books, and not let me write at all, because they were jealous [Sirius: Hey, NOT jealous!]. I didn't get to write this earlier because of them. Tres, I kinda just recovered from a full-blown depression, sooo… —bunny chan

Disclaimer: To whomever in question, the Marauders, Hogwarts, all don't belong to bunny chan. In fact, the only thing she owns is just the Marauders [uhm, their personality, at least], Loopy Village [which she doubts exist], minor characters and Adele Varens ^_^ those mage stuff are my conjurations, so don't you DARE mess with them!

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The Marauding Five : Year Seven

Chapter 5: Metamorphosis

Lily stared calmly at the pool of water before her. The cheerful twinkle that had been in her eyes have long faded into tiny shimmers of the faintest stars. Gone were the happy carefree days where Lily Trenna (that pest!) had reigned in her mind. Now the subjected Lily is left on her own to struggle with the looming consequences of the acts twenty-five years ago.

At this moment, it is personality that's in control of the mind. No more wild instincts, and definitely no-no nonsense.

The Lily Evans—calm, cool and collected. Written long in old scrolls that her friends and her powers shall rule, should not their past had interfered so stubbornly.

She bore her jade-green eyes into the scrying pool, silently wondering if it were really worth it at all, just a little glimpse into an unhazy future.

Her dream flashed violently before her, shaking her roughly.

Clenching the dagger she had gotten from Adele's house in her hand, she held her breath. It was. With utmost care, she brought the tip to her left wrist and carefully tore the ivory skin if her wrist, watchful for the deadly vein that might lead to over-bleeding.

Dark red dripped into the pool of clear spring water and colours swirled in spiral patterns.

'YES! The spell's ready now!!!' Sirius cried excitedly. It was only four days ago when James had woken up from the bludger's skull bash to discover that his sight was lost. It was temporary, but kinda traumatic to the boy.

'Are you sure?' James asked doubtfully. 'Because Lily said it'll take AT LEAST a week before I can get my vision back. You'd better be very sure about it!'

'Hey, I'm absolutely POSITIVE!!!' Sirius retorted. 'Look, I'm not a dunce when it comes to Potion brewing—I'm a genius. Get it?' Sirius had felt quite tempted to add in, 'and that's why Voldemort wants me too, hah,' but wisely kept it sealed.

'I don't believe you at all,' James said firmly, folding his arms.

'You'd better not,' Remus said, nodding in agreement. 'Whaddyou know, he might have it all wrong!!!'

'Hey!! Trust me, will you?' Sirius snapped. He scooped some of the pinkish red congey-like… thing… from the school cauldron (his cauldron had blown up a week ago). 'Say aaah, Jimmy-boy!'

'Un!' James growled, tightening his lips resolutely.

'Gee, what's the commotion this morning…?' Dan moaned in annoyance, awaking from his bed. He stared at Sirius who was trying to feed James, who was in a muggle wheelchair ('I'm NOT invalid!' 'James, you can't bang into things all the time!'), something disgusting. Actually, it wouldn't quite fit into the "something" category. It looked quite out of the world.

'I don't think it looked… right,' Thomas McMillan said slowly.

'Rubbish! C'mon James! You know you want to see the Jack-o'-Lanterns, don't you?' Sirius said in a most persuasive voice. Remus, who was in charge of caring for James's well-being since the "accident" looked doubtfully at the gooey thing in the cauldron.

'Why don't we get Lily here?' James suggested weakly. 'She would know.'

'Gah, I'm the expert here! Lily's stupid at potions, remember???'

'Evans's going to resent that a lot,' Dan noted. 'Maybe enough to kill you, even. Hahaha! Seriously!' He paused, and glanced at James. 'Tell you what, I'll do you a favour and get Lily for you. I'm going to surprise my fiancée this morning!' He winked and opened the oak door, grinning goofily.

'Lily??? You here????' Adele shrieked, entering as soon as the lock was unlatched. The occupants of the dorm jumped. Sirius dropped the ladle on Remus's hair and Dan scurried to his bed, frightened to the point where he paled like a sheet of paper.

'W-What?' Thomas stammered, gulping his fright.

'Lily! Where's she?' Adele demanded. 'Is she here???'

'We were about to look for her,' Dan stuttered, breathing heavily as he hadn't recovered from his shock yet.

Adele took time off from her hysteria and eyed him. 'YOU look for HER for WHAT?'

'Sirius claimed that he did the potion already,' James said sarcastically, trying to roll his eyes. Somehow, it didn't seem right, with the blank look in those pupils and irises. 'For good reasons, none of us believed him.'

'So where's Lily?' Remus asked.

'I'm looking for her,' Adele started, taking a deep breath. 'She's been rather weird these days.' The girl let out a heavy sigh.

'She's always weird,' Dan muttered notedly.

'No! I mean, she's weirder than ever!' the pale girl insisted. 'She has this recurring nightmares and she's often… how do I put it, VANISHED!'

'Vanished…?' That one's new. Lily hasn't vanished before. Well, not to the point where her friends couldn't find her, which is REALLY vanishing.

'Yeah!'

'Where do you think she is then?' Remus asked, frowning a bit.

'She'd be back at this time, usually,' Adele rattled nervously, fidgeting. 'But I couldn't find her at all! D'you think she's in some kind of trouble or something?'

No one voiced over this.

'Dan, Thomas, can you two please leave?' James asked in a calm voice. The two boys frowned in confusion, but nodded, and left the room.

'Aha. Well?' Sirius asked.

'I think she's discovering it.'

'Discovering? Discovering WHAT? What could there be to discover anyway??? Lost pirate treasures?'

'Be serious, would you?!' Adele snapped sharply, hitting him on his head.

James decided to ignore them. 'Remember when I got hit by the Bludger?' James said.

'Yeah, all too clearly…' Sirius muttered.

'Shut up and listen, Sirius!' Adele snapped again.

'Anyway,' James said, stressing for attention, 'Lily told me that Voldemort had counted on my getting knocked.'

~*~

"James, your lost of sight is not an accident caused by a harmless bludger," Lily said, "it was planned. Planned by Voldemort, to be precise. He knew that you'd save Jeremiah, being the nearest to him... and being who you are deep down."

"Umhm… Yeah, and so.—what? Deep WHAT?"

"Deep DOWN. Down, down, DOWN."

"Whatever. Anyway. I'd never counted on helping Jeremiah, actually," James said, scratching his head. "I don't know why I did anyway, but it's good. Huh?" Lily stared into his eyes. Nothing much, really, since he's blind.

"The five Maggles had fallen to their deaths, as reported twenty-so years ago, on April. I checked with them, but they couldn't remember. So I did a research. D'you know when they die, James?" Lily whispered, staring out the Infirmary window.

"Er, April?"

"They dies… as soon as they reached Hogwarts, on September first. They were found only in April."

"What?! But- but everyone said that--!"

Lily tied her long hair up. "Maybe someone mind-wiped everyone, or created a clone of them, or something just as bizarre. Prob'ly Voldemort himself…?" She paused. "Don't you feel different, after entering Hogwarts? It feels just like an oddly dead place, right? Deadly unfamiliar, so to say. And hadn't you noticed how your magic had suddenly flared up for no reason?" she pressed. "Haven't you realized… that we have all changed?"

"We're always changing, aren't we?" James said in utter confusion. "It's normal!"

"No, we're regaining our REAL nature, James," Lily said quietly. James didn't like the feel of her eyes on her. He slumped. Too bad he couldn't give her the same dead glare, too.

"Oh yeah?"

She ignored him. "For the last sixteen years, we've been overpowered by the Maggles, see? We're NOT supposed to be playing pranks; we're supposed to be heightening our senses and magic."

"Sure, sure… so, what made you came to this conclusion, Sherlock?"

"…Would you STOP fooling around, James?! This is SERIOUS!!!!"

"I know, which is why I'm asking you!"

"Shut up and listen! Sheesh! As I was saying…"

"You mean as you were TRYING to continue before you were interrupted by—"

"JAMES!"

"Okay, okay!"

"RIGHT. Now. Tessie. Yes. Okay, I realised when I got burned by my own flames"—James sniggered mockingly at this. "Potter, you seriously don't want to be PERMANENTLY blind, do you?" He shook his head abruptly. "Now I'm awake, so…"

James laughed out loud, annoying Lily tremendously.

"LISTEN, you nitwit! We're not supposed to be playing pranks—that was the Maggles' time! OUR job is to fight Voldemort, get it? We're destined—forced—to do it. You have to help me! You have to help the rest discover all of these! I've been having nightmares for years, faintly at first. Now, after what'd happened to you and me, I get what it means (well sorta)."

James blushed slightly when he felt Lily holding his hand.

"You're awaking. You know it, too, deep inside. We need to get Adele, Remus and Sirius to realize it before they learn it the hard way. Our way. Voldemort mustn't get them—mustn't!"

~*~

'Izzat… what's happening?' Adele gulped. 'We're actually changing?'

'Hope not,' Sirius muttered, 'I'm quite content with who I am, actually.'

'Sirius,' James said seriously, 'Lily said that you've got magic in you, too. And she didn't mean the secondary Psychic though—that one'll leave you as soon as you, uh, "wake" up. Mine went bye bye already.' James thought for a while, as if recollecting something. Sirius stared at his best friend, wide-eyed and hopeful. 'I think it's pink magic.'

'PINK?!?!?!?!' Sirius screeched. James laughed as Sirius tried to strangle him. 'Why PINK?!'

'Nah! I was just kidding! Just kidding!! Sirius! I WAS JUST KIDDING! STOP SHAKING ME!' James choked, coughing and spluttering as Remus pulled the mad boy aside. James took in deep breaths.

'So WHAT is it?'

'It's the –gasp- Yellow Magic –cough cough- ackshualliee… no, not common, in fact, very rare. Involves your ability to speak and understand animals, with an addition of…'

'Of what? Of what?' Sirius asked eagerly, hopping around.

'Of granting things. If trained, that it.' (Sirius fell onto his bed, dead discouraged) 'I don't know what Li meant, though, but I doubt she knew what she meant either!' James laughed, rolling his eyes. For a moment, it seemed as if his sight was returned. His eyes glowed from its dull looks as boyish cheerfulness shined through it.

'Anyway, I think Lily's right,' Remus said thoughtfully. 'I do feel the change, but I'm not really sure of it, though. Isn't there anything else?'

'Er… I don't think so.'

'You don't think so,' Adele echoed, almost accusingly. 'Maybe if you had actually LISTENED to her, you wouldn't have thought of saying that, ne James my pal?'

James fidgeted slightly, tapping his head. 'I… think she said something about watching out your backs? Er. Uhm, since you all know what to expect, I guess we'll look for Lily now,' James said brightly, quite anxious for Lily's safety and whereabouts.

'Worried for your darling betrothed fiancée, hm?' Adele said, smiling. 'But yeah, good point, we'd better find her, in case she's in some trouble or other.'

Sirius snorted. 'Whenever is Lily in trouble? She's probably snoring over the library books!'

'Who's snoring on the library books?' Lily snapped, scowling blackly at all four of them. 'As if I'd snore over the dusty, ugly, foul-smell library books!' She turned her nose up at an imaginary library book.

'Where'd you go?' Adele asked.

'For a walk.'

'Oh, do you think this is the spell?' Remus said, immediately pushing the pink-porridge-like result of Sirius's brewing. Lily's eyes widened to the size of the cauldron.

'Wow, what's this, a new sort of breakfast?'

'Er, not exactly...'

'So what in Merlin's name is this, then???'

'Which was why we were looking for you,' Adele added sweetly, smirking in Sirius's face. He looked pretty much offended.

'It's the potion,' the boy said indignantly, 'technically. I'm right, aren't I? C'mon James, eat it!'

'No way I'm going to eat your poison!' James yelled, tightly pursing his lips again.

Lily stifled a laugh. 'How 'bout Sirius try it first?' she suggested logically, a mischievous glint in her eyes. 'We'll know if it works or not, by seeing what colour his face turns into!'

'Hey, yeah! Right!' Remus agreed brightly. He scooped a huge spoonful – er, ladleful – of the potion (porridge, or whatever it is) and advanced to Sirius. Sirius backed away slowly. Somehow, Lily's glint had scared him even more than the phrase 'what colour his face turns into'. He gulped.

'Chaaaarge!!!!!!!' James yelled as Remus dunked the whole gooey thing into Sirius's mouth and forced him to swallow it.

The effect was startlingly amusing.

Sirius had sprouted a pair of purple arms and legs. Then he turned purple all over.

'It's all your fault! You dumped it into my mouth! See! I can't make the potion anymore!' Sirius cried, shaking his right fists at Remus, who laughed heartily in reply.

'Whew! Thank goodness I didn't eat it,' James breathed.

'Now I look like a spider that's disguising as a grape!' Sirius wailed loudly. Adele hushed him.

'You don't look like a spider,' the girl said, hoping that it would comfort him. Sirius yelled louder.

'That's because I'm LARGE and I'm PURPLE!!!'

'Well, that's another point,' Lily smirked. 'So when do you think you'll be okay enough to start brewing again?' Sirius couldn't even stand up straight. He had to lie down flat. On his stomach. And he hated it. He growled menacingly at Lily.

'In two weeks,' Madam Pomfrey said cheerfully, carrying a spoon of green powder.

'Why so long?' James asked in horror.

'He put fourteen mandrake leaves in there,' the nurse said, shaking her head, 'thus the effect will go in fourteen days. I can't put another spell in him without extending the, er, potion's effect.'

'Look at the mess you got us into,' Remus sighed, frowning. Sirius glared at him.

'Well, I wasn't expecting to be FED with it.'

'I can make James's potion for him,' Pomfrey offered kindly, looking at James. 'I don't have the ingredients and instructions, though.'

'You can? Really?' Adele said excitedly. 'Lily! She—'

'Yes, yes, I heard everything,' Lily said irritably. 'I'll get those stuff later.'

'Now. I want to see as soon as possible!' James demanded. 'C'mon Lily! Please?'

'I'm lazy!' the redhead whined. 'Dreadfully tired, too!'

'No one asked you to wake up early! Hurry up!'

'No. I'm tired,' Lily said firmly, pouting like a little girl. 'Maybe Adele can get it. It's in the trunk under… you know, Adele. The password's still the same, and the key… I, uh, think it's in my pillow. Sorta. You'll either find it somewhere in the feathers or on my bed. Kay?'

Adele was about to retort when she felt James's temporarily blind eyes flaring coldly at her. She let out a choke of nervous laughter. 'Uh, sure, sure, anything! I, um, go now.' She shot out at once, no enthusiastic in facing James's death glares. They're twice more effective than Lily's (when they're REALLY mad), which is really saying much.

'What's wrong with your wrist?' Remus asked curiously, staring at Lily's bandaged left wrist. Lily dropped her robes sleeves.

'Nothing.'

'Yeah, sure it's nothing,' Sirius said sarcastically. Lily had a sudden unexplained urge to punch his face. She would have, but James caught her left arm before it smashed Sirius's stupidly grinning face. She scowled.

'Now Miss Evans, let's see your wrist,' Madam Pomfrey said, pulling back the sleeves.

'No. It's, um, okay,' she said, fighting to release James's grip of her arm. When had he been so strong??? She pulled more. He tightened it. Lily could imagine her arm turning blue and purple, from the cold numbness she was feeling in her fingers. Remus unwound the bandage.

'Have you been cutting yourself?' Sirius asked in surprise and fear, staring at the wound Lily opened that morning.

'No, I was just checking, okay?' she said impatiently. 'James, my arm's going to be dysfunctional soon if you don't let me go!'

'Sorry,' he said, smiling. Lily wondered if he were mad. No. Maybe it's just his metamorphosis turning in.

'What were you checking?' Remus asked, as Pomfrey brought in the antiseptic and green herbs. 'That you have blood?'

'Nothing,' Lily replied stonily. She seemed to have distanced herself. Then she snapped back. 'Adele's taking too long, right? It should take her only about ten minutes, ever since we'd discovered those hidden passages!'

'Yeah,' Sirius said, eating an apple. 'Hey Remus, why don't you check on her?'

'What about you?' Remus asked.

'I can't walk,' Sirius pointed out, 'besides I don't wanna crawl all over!'

'You mean you don't want to embarrass yourself,' James sniggered. 'Besides, I'm blind.'

'And Poppy's putting stuff on Lily's wrist,' Sirius added. Lily snorted as she stifled her comment on Sirius's wart-growing face. Funny how his potion react to the human body.

'Fine, fine, I get your message,' Remus sighed. 'I'll be right back, then!' he chipped, smoothing his robes' creases.

'Bye!!! Don't miss us too much!'

Remus walked idly down the dark dripping-with-moss passage, wondering why on earth the founders had forgot to decorate this one with flowery pictures and firestands. Instead, it has all sorts of funny-coloured plants growing from the stone walls. And a whole lot more creepy crawlies that have too many legs.

Maybe Adele decided not to take this passage, and used the long way. There's way too many arachnids here for her liking.

The bright blue flames in his hand dimmed. Remus fed more of his magic into it. Light flared, blinding him.

'Oops, too much,' he mumbled.

His sharp ears caught something that didn't sound quite right.

Drip… drip…

Being rather curious, he walked on. He stumbled over something.

'Aaargh!' he yelled, his cry echoing the dark long passageway. He knelt over something soft. Holding the luminous blue flames over the something, his eyelids picked up.

'Adele?' he gasped.

There was a soft tap-tap, and a sickening crunch. The bow fell onto the mud-based floor with a soft thud. The blue fire in his right hand that fed on his magic like fuel winked out of existence, and darkness hungrily swallowed the remains of any stray flickers.

'They're not back yet,' Lily stated, glancing her watch for the umpteenth time. 'What's stowing them? One hour! How long d'you need, huh, to just get a piece of paper and a small pouch?'

'Maybe they're chatting,' Madam Pomfrey suggested helpfully.

'Taking their own sweet time?' James added. Lily's jade eyes flashed.

'No. I'm going to find them,' Lily said firmly, a tinge of fear in her voice. Suppose… suppose Voldemort got them? As he had promised?

I plan to eliminate the both you of first; you, Evans, and Potter. And then the meddlesome Adele Varens would be next. The werewolf, soon after, and lastly is the Yellow One.

She gulped. If Adele and Remus are attacked, that leaves just one…

'Hey Lily, you okay?' Sirius asked. 'You're turning white.'

'James, watch out for Sirius,' Lily choked. 'I'm going to get them. Just stay here and don't go anywhere at all!' With that, she ran out, Tessie's childish voice echoes replaying in her mind continuously as she sprinted down the passage behind the painting of a saint.

I plan to eliminate the both you of first; you, Evans…

Lily felt a ghostly sensation of her own magic, lapping her skin its merciless white tongues.

And Potter…

The image flashed past her eye. James forcefully thrown off his broom. Lily squeezed her eyes shut.

And then the meddlesome Adele Varens would be next…

She slowed her feet gradually, coming upon a hump. She bent over Adele's unconscious form, which seemed to have the Cruciatus curse placed on her.

The werewolf, soon after…

Next to Adele was Remus, his sandy hair drenched in deep red blood.

And lastly is the Yellow One.

'You're awake,' Adele stated dully when Sirius opened his eyes. He smelled the bitter medicine Madam Pomfrey was brewing, and the smell of… roast potatoes?

'I smell food!!!' he exclaimed, sitting up like a springboard. 'Roast potatoes!'

'Yep! We just roast them this morning,' Lily said cheerfully. 'Hagrid raked the leaves and the elves gave us some sweet potatoes! Thought it'd be a nice wake-up food for you three.'

'Mmm…! Deee-licious! I tell you, we hadn't had roast potatoes since we were ten!' James added happily, licking his lips. 'Good thing Sirius's mum remembered how to roast them. Else, we'll end up having a basketful of those!' he crowed and doubled over with laughter, pointing shakily at a burnt-to-crisp potato which Lily and James's owl, Lotus and Jackpot, are pecking. 'Lily did that. Failure, obviously.' He laughed again.

'Ah, you can see already?' Remus asked, blearily rubbing his eyes.

'Naturally. You three were out for a week and a half!'

'WHAT?!'

'Yeah,' Lily said, somewhat dully. 'Albus was wondering what's happening to us all and Melissa freaked out. Sorry, I didn't get to help you all out.'

Adele gazed at her best friend, who was staring – no, glaring – at a piece of parchment in her hand. The room was oddly silent.

'Act of coleslaw!' Sirius yelled.

'Oh yeah? What're you going to make me do?' Lily challenged. 'I'm HeadGirl!'

'Uh…'

'Aha! There you are! Now lay back and rest,' James grinned.

'What happened anyway?' Remus asked, trying to recall his memories. All he remembered was a dark passage and a dim blue light. Oh yeah, and his head hurt like a cracked egg. He had a vague feeling how Humpty Dumpty must have felt, when he fell off the wall.

'I'm not quite sure about you two, but as soon as Lily and Poppy left Sirius's room, he began to yell,' James said to Remus and Adele. Then he turned to Sirius. 'I didn't see what happened to you, but Poppy said that something got you—some spell, more like it.'

'Ah,' Sirius frowned, not pleased at all.

'Adele got the Cruciatus curse and Remus got thunked on the head,' Lily explained. 'It wasn't a pretty sight.'

The three of them stared at their hands, quite speechless for a few reasons.

Number One: They got attacked.
Number Two: What the--?! They got ATTACKED???
Number Three: THEY GOT ATTACKED?!?!
Number Four: WHERE'S OUR PRIDE?!?!?!?!

'Now I'm trying to se if Voldemort has anything else up his robes,' Lily said, noticing them gripping their sheets, quite ready to tear it.

'So, what were you doing the other day, cutting your wrist?' Remus asked.

'I was… uh, how d'you put it… scrying,' she whispered. 'Apparently, it wasn't much that I can see, only a few blur visions of a huge fire.'

'WHAT?! Lily, that's forbidden!' Adele hissed.

Lily grinned smugly. 'Gee, why didn't I know?'

'I mean, with blood, and all the strength it could've drained from you...! It's amazing you're not DEAD yet, Evans!'

'I don't look dead, do I? Besides, I'm the great Lily Evans! How could I have died that easily?' Lily smirked.

'It's not funny,' James said, crossing his arms.

'I didn't say it was. But you have to admit, I AM great!' Lily persisted.

'Yeah, yeah, sure you are. Greater than an ant,' Remus said boringly, waving his hand. 'Hey, can I have a potato?'

'No! You insulted me!' Lily said, sticking out her tongue at him.

'Not fair!!!!! Lily!!!'

'What's that?' Sirius asked, pointing at the parchment Lily was holding.

'That's something we're deciphering!' James replied proudly.

'Really? What'd you get?' Adele asked eagerly.

'Nothing yet.'

'…'

'I think it's something important, cause it's stuck in my head when Tessie – er, Voldemort, I mean – say it to me,' Lily explained, unfolding the parchment. Lily's small writing read as follow:

I plan to eliminate the both you of first; you, Evans, and Potter. And then the meddlesome Adele Varens would be next. The werewolf, soon after, and lastly is the Yellow One. A perfect thing that I had planned.

The three Marauders shuddered involuntarily.

'It sounded … normal,' Remus commented bluntly, not going to admit that he felt funny.

'Yes, but I have a feeling that Voldemort has something on his mind besides just injuring us,' Lily murmured. 'Something tells me that we're being marked…'

James let out a sudden cry, jumping up from his seat.

'I get it!' he cried. Then he paused. 'Or at least, I think I did.'

'Go on,' Lily encouraged.

'Three of us were attacked at the same time,' James said, picking up a ballpoint pen nearby. He tapped the first three words, and underlined the fourth.

'Eliminate,' Adele said outloud.

'Yes. Four of us have coloured magic. Lily's white magic isn't in, because it's also known as the colourless magic,' James continued, tapping the next four words. He underlined the fifth.

'First.'

'There are five of us…' Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. 'Six of whom Voldemort's aware of: Professor Dumbledore, and the five of us…' The tapping went on. The others nodded, following him. 'Seven magic in all that he's dealing with: Black, white, red, blue, yellow, psychic and elemental (wand-waving magic).

'And finally,' James concluded, 'eight times in total that he has attacked us.'

'Eight?' Adele said quizzically.

'Our third year (that's first), but you weren't there,' Sirius said, 'then our episodes with Professor Corn, also third yea, which is number two. Then there's the shapeshifter. Three. Plus all five of our individual attacks this tern, it sums up to eight.'

'Ah…'

'Eliminate first then next the planned,' Lily murmured.

'That planned? 'Remus frowned. 'He just "eliminate" us, so what could be NEXT?'

'Something unpleasant, that's for certain,' Sirius contributed.

'Like I don't know!' Remus snorted. 'But what?'

'His plan,' James said bluntly. 'Naturally.'

'Well,' Adele sighed, 'I guess we'd all better watch out. Like Lily said, we're probably marked already.

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AN: whee! *grins evilly* if those five BRATS think this is the best I can do, they're WRONG! HAH. *glances sheepishly around* uhm, sorry, the Marauders and I are having a sort of… disagreement [more of jealousy on their parts] ^_^;

Actually, I'd not planned on putting the last part in, but when it comes to "oh no, where will I put it, then?", I changed my mind… besides, it's nothing special anyway :P just something to, oh, torture myself on ^_^

I'm just recovering from the last bout of depression… _ and yes, I'll let you all yell at me this time. Go on, spit all you like.