Chapter Thirteen

DC: I don't own Harry Potter

It was still early in July, finally going towards the middle, and the Marauders found out that they have done a lot of things already with little Lily. They swam in the water, which almost turned into a near death experience, took a tour of Hogwarts, met her family, they cooked, they cleaned up mud and paint (Mostly just James and the other two cleaned), experienced bed wetting, or at least Sirius did, Lily had a, somewhat, slumber party with Dumbledore, got sick and had the Chicken—excuse me, Hen Hocks, and they flew on broomsticks. That too almost turned into a near death experience…or maybe it was.

So now the four of them sat inside the room. Sirius was hanging upside down on his bed, Remus was finishing the last two pages of his book, James had a snitch and was tossing it around, and Lily was sitting on her bed with a book as a hard surface, a piece of parchment, and a pencil.

Sirius grew bored of the blood rushing to his head, and flipped onto his stomach. After the few moments of dizziness, he caught Lily writing her cursive e's on the piece of parchment.

"What are you doing?" Sirius asked.

"My Christmas list! I've always known to do it early." Lily replied.

Remus shut his book, for he was done and he wanted to look at Lily, James stopped tossing the snitch around to stare, and Sirus stared too. Lily looked back up to them with a confused look on her face. "What? Isn't Christmas around the corner?"

"Er…" James said.

"I…suppose?" Remus said.

"Oh! Sure it is!" Sirius said. The other two Marauders gave him a look. "What? She's been here forever, so why don't we have Christmas?"

Lily happily went back to her list, as the three Marauders had a quick discussion.

"What do you mean, 'Sure'?" James asked. "We can't do that…can we?"

"Well if we do, then we'll have to have all the other holidays in between…" Remus answered.

"Why is that?" Sirius asked.

"Because she'd get confused if we skipped Easter, and Halloween, and other things in between, wouldn't she? We can't skip those, because it could lead to questions, and a bad grow up plan…thing…" Remus answered.

"That's true…" James said. "So…"

"The week of Holiday's it is then!" Sirius said, clapping his hands together.

"You know I bet you really wanted Christmas to come early, huh, Padfoot?" James asked.

"Well…duh! I love Christmas! So many new toys!" Sirius said, ending that topic for the moment.

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Later that night during dinner, while Lily was having a heated discussion with Sirius about the Easter bunny/rabbit, Remus and James explained what Lily thought about Christmas, and what they should do about the holidays, with Dumbledore and McGonagall.

"What are we going to tell her?" Remus asked. "I mean she really believes Christmas is coming."

"And we can't just go to Christmas and skip all the other holidays." James added.

"It would probably confuse her." McGonagall replied.

"We don't want that happening." Dumbledore said. "We'll just have to start from the beginning."

"Beginning?" Remus and James asked.

"Yes. We will start off with Valentine's Day, and then Easter!" Dumbledore said, clasping his hands together. "I've been wanting some hard boiled eggs anyway."

James and Remus stopped the discussion, which somehow went from the Easter Bunny/Rabbit to the monster that supposedly lived under everyone's pillow, and told Sirius what was going to be happening this coming Monday.

"We start with Valentines Day?" Sirius asked. "Ooh! I get to make hearts!"

"Lily! Guess what?" James said.

"What?" Lily asked.

"Valentines Day is coming up!" James said. "It's going to be the week of Holidays!"

"Oh!" Lily said. "Really? So that's how it's going to be this year? Wow!"

Lily happily ate the rest of her dinner, as did everyone else. It was a good Friday evening, now that they had everything planned for the week after.

The next day, while Lily was coloring, the Marauders planned out the week. Monday was Valentines Day, Tuesday was Easter, Wednesday was going to be the break day, Thursday was Halloween, and Friday was going to be Christmas.

"Ooh!" Lily said looking up from her coloring. "I have to look at something!"

She went over to her bed, and looked into her school trunk. She didn't know it was her school trunk, yet, but she did like looking at the stuff inside. She pulled out older Lily's little calendar, and was looking at the month of July. "Aha!"

"What did you find?" Remus asked.

"My birthday is coming up!" Lily said excitedly. "It's on the twenty-seventh!"

Lily handed her calendar over to James. He looked at it, as Lily went back to her coloring. "Hey…"

"What?" Remus and Sirius asked.

"Her birthday is the Wednesday after the Week of Holidays…" James said. "Isn't that weird? Never knew her birthday."

"So she'll be turning eighteen?" Sirius asked.

"She'll be turning…five." Remus replied. "I wonder when she'll grow up."

"I hope before September." James said. "Everyone has to start their lives somewhere."

"But what if she stays little forever?" Sirius asked.

"That would be a problem…" Remus said. "But I suppose it would have to be something we would be responsible for…"

They sighed, and separated for the moment. Sirius colored with Lily, James was looking at the Daily Prophet, and Remus took a little afternoon nap. Nothing exciting was really happening in the world.

James was just flipping threw when he spotted something that had to do with Hogsmeade. There had been Death Eater activity going around down there, and that some witches and wizards were havening to shut their stores down early.

"This doesn't look good."

"What?" Sirius asked, looking from the colored piece of parchment.

"Some Death Eater activity going around." James said. "Maybe we should be careful…"

"Come on, James. This is Hogwarts. No one would dare step on the grounds with Dumbledore here." Sirius said.

"Yeah…" James said. "Your right."

"What's a Death Beater?" Lily asked.

"It's a Death Eater." James said. "Their very bad people, Lily. They come to do very bad things."

"Like bad people do." Sirius added.

"Yeah…" James said, giving Sirius a weird look. "Just like I just said…"

"Oh…otay… They won't get into the big house, will they?" Lily asked.

"No. Not with Dumbledore here."

"I thought you were taking a nap?" James asked Remus, who was now sitting up in his bed.

"Can't sleep with so much noise going on." Remus replied. "I'm hungry…"

"Ooh! So am I!" Lily said.

"Remus you're becoming like Lily. Hungry all the time." James said.

"No…not really…" Remus said. "I'm just…hungry…"

"Or maybe it's because you're a werewolf--"

James jumped on Sirius, Remus laughed nervously, and Lily hid behind Remus. "Uncle Remie? Why did Daddy do that? And what did Uncle Siri say?"

"It's nothing Lily." Remus said, wanting to change the subject quickly. "Let's go to the kitchens for a snack."

Remus led her out of the room, as James helped Sirius off the floor. "I'm really sorry!" Sirius cried. "I didn't mean to say it out loud."

"Luckily Lily didn't hear a word." James said. "Come on…I'm kind of hungry too."

They straightened themselves out before leaving to follow the other two to the kitchens.

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Lala Rue here, and soo sorry for the long time waiting to update thing. Hopefully I can get started on chapter fourteen so I can get it out to you guys. My writers block is slowly coming to an end, and I hope it doesn't come back..

Yep, yep people I am fifteen...Wow is it that hard to believe? LoL. Love your reactions, thank you for them. But...How old are you ppl? I mean some of you already said, but what about everyone else?

Miss Lizzi, Elizabeth... Did you get hurt badly? I've never done that before, I mean the keyboard fell on you two? Hope your okie, but by now bumps would be gone, huh?

Hope everyone is having a wonderful time in school, if you are in school or you've started, and ppl who aren't...lucky you! I bombed a test today, and I think I did good on my latin test...I hope I did good... Translating can be frustrating.

Well, I'll update soon when I get my chapters done. I'm going to try to get a few down ahead of time, so I know what I'm doing...

Oh I lied again! Man I lie alot! Next chapter will be the start of the Holidays! Yay! Christmas is coming soon! (I wish)

Love, Lala Rue!