James stormed onto the train. Yet again, Lily Evans had humiliated him. Publicly. He threw open the compartment where his friends were sitting and sat down angrily.

"Ahh, my mind is sensing some female problems. I have a sneaking suspicion that Lily Evans is the cause of your concern, eh James?" his best friend Sirius Black said.

"I don't want to talk about it," James mumbled.

"James, we can't help you if we don't know what the problem is," Remus Lupin thoughtfully offered.

Peter Pettigrew nodded, as though this was exactly what he was thinking. (James knew better)

Remus and Peter were James' other best friends.

"It's just that, I mean, WHY DOESN'T SHE LIKE ME? It's a bloody conspiracy against James/Lily! And Lily is the leader!" James demanded.

"I have done everything I can think of to maker her believe that I really like her, and she rejects me, AGAIN!"

"Aww, man. I've told you a million times. You can have any girl you want! Why Evans?" Sirius asked.

James just glared at him.

He couldn't really answer that question anyway. There was something about Lily that drew her to him. The way her eyes lit up when she was angry… with him. Her spectacular wit, focus, and intelligence. Her amazing beauty didn't hurt either. She had captivating emerald green eyes that James could gaze into forever, fiery red hair that always curled loosely at her shoulders, and creamy, fair, flawless skin that shone in the sunlight. Even when she was angry or upset, her features stood out against the boring ones of other girls. And he would never forget her beautiful smile. She was the love of his life, but he was nothing but an irritating pest to her.

Sirius noticed the faraway look in James' eyes and said,

"James, come back to Earth. We have chocolate frogs."

At the mention of chocolate frogs, James instantly looked up excitedly. All he saw were his best friends; Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.

Sirius Black was the biggest bachelor at Hogwarts (with the exception of Professor Dumbledore). He was extremely handsome, with long black hair that hung in his face, and entrancing gray eyes. He was fit and muscular, as he was the beater on the quidditch team and worked out with James. Sirius played the girls of Hogwarts like a simple game of Wizard's Chess. He singled out one pretty girl and made her feel like a queen. He treated her well, then dumped her two days later. After a day or so, he moved on to another girl. It was a cycle that his friends were used to.

James and Sirius had been best friends since first year, when James had helped Sirius gain popularity. James was already well liked because his parents were well known aurors, and Mr. And Mrs. Potter's friends had sons and daughters. James was friends with them. Sirius, on the other hand, was a Black. And for generations Blacks had all been sorted into Slytherin. When Sirius was sorted into Gryffindor in first year, his parents were furious. They believed that muggle borns didn't deserve any respect and didn't belong at Hogwarts. Sirius felt exactly the opposite, and rebelled against his parents by making friends with muggle borns purposely. In third year, when Sirius left home, James welcomed him into his house with open arms. Sirius and James still lived together in James' house in their fourth year at Hogwarts, and they were totally inseparable.

Remus Lupin was the most sensible of James' friends. He had short, sandy blonde hair, and blue eyes. He, like most of James' friends, was rather handsome, although once a month he came to class looking shabby and beaten up. Remus was a werewolf, and turned into one at the full moon once a month. His friends were the only ones who knew, apart from Dumbledore, and in order to help their friend, they turned into illegal animagi. Once a month, James became a stag, Sirius a giant black Labrador, and Peter turned into a rat. Apart from the hectic full moon issue, Remus had the most common sense of the group and helped keep them together. He was the one that each of the boys came to for advice, and he almost always could sort out the fights they got into. He also regulated the pranks the group played. (Somewhat.) Remus was what James called, "the glue."

Peter Pettigrew was considered the tagalong of James' group. He had mousy brown hair, beady, close together eyes, and buckteeth. Peter was short, and rather fat. He was rarely included in the group's plans, and didn't have much say in what happened. He didn't play sports, nor did he have many (or any) girlfriends. Peter practically worshipped the ground Sirius and James walked on, as they were much more popular and well liked than Peter. Remus was the only one who treated Peter the same as the other boys. Pettigrew was often close to being kicked out of the group.

James himself was very attractive too. He had extremely untidy, black hair and hazel eyes. James was also very fit, seeing as he a chaser on the quidditch team. He was the other leader of the group, along with Sirius. They both had most of the girls and most of the attention. Although James could have any woman he wanted, (that Sirius hadn't already marked) he only wanted one of them. Lily Evans. She was the girl of his dreams, but she never even pretended to like him. Everyone could see they were meant for each other but she refused to acknowledge it. Almost every day, James tried another stunt to get Lily to go out with him, but she always rejected James. Potter was stubborn though, and kept pursuing Lily. James never gave up. Ever.

Sirius, Remus and Peter supported James, even if his dreams seemed like little more than dreams sometimes. Together they were the Marauders. They created chaos and disorder, and they considered it their duty to create as much trouble as possible at Hogwarts. As much as Remus disagreed, he always ended up helping, although he never had as big of a role as Sirius or James. Over the past three years at Hogwarts, they had reeked havoc upon all their teachers and caused as much trouble as possible in three short years. Professor McGonagall was one of their favorite teachers to bother. She was their head of house and one of the strictest teachers at Hogwarts. Sirius even called her Mom.

James and Sirius were brilliant in their studies, and rarely studied for tests, much to the fury or Remus and Lily, both of whom studied until their eyes practically fell out. Peter wasn't very smart, nor did he do very well in school, and would be lucky to get a job working for the house elves in the Hogwarts kitchen. The Marauders were all bonded though, through Remus' secret. James was Prongs, Sirius was Padfoot, Remus was Moony, and Peter was Wormtail. Together, they made a map of Hogwarts under their nicknames and planned to pass it down to future troublemakers. The map showed every inch of Hogwarts, including any secret passageways that the school contained. It also showed where every person in the school was at any point in time, which made it extremely convenient when they wanted to torment their favorite victim, Severus Snape.

Snape was a Slytherin, and not at all attractive. He had extremely greasy hair and a hook shaped nose. His expression was always of fury or hatred, especially towards Sirius. Severus was very interest in the Dark Arts and was also very intelligent, excelling in most of his classes. One of Sirius' joys in life was seeing Snape grimace whenever he saw Sirius, making Snape a wonderful target for the Marauders' pranks.

"JAMES! WAKE UP JAMESIE WAMESIE!" Sirius shouted,

James lost his train of thought and glared at Sirius again.

"I'm getting that glare more and more often these days," Sirius muttered to no one in particular.

Luckily, James didn't hear, as he was too busy staring at Lily in the opposite compartment, laughing with her friends. Her smile alone made his heart melt.

"I think I know what our dear friend James here needs," Sirius said.

"It's time to plan our first prank of the school year!" he cried excitedly.

Remus and Peter groaned. We're not even at Hogwarts yet, Sirius! You're a bloody prank addict!"

Sirius just grinned like a maniac. "Now, where to start, where to start," Sirius muttered.

"5…4…3…2…1…" James murmured.

Exactly when James finished counting, Sirius shouted, "I've got it!"

The group stared, faking surprise.

"We are going to make our old pal, Snape, a girl!"