A lot has happened in between 5th year and 7th year, so… just guess.

Chapter 3: Transfiguration

The constant rain got on Lily's nerve. She was naturally a fun and sunny person, so being cooped up all day was tiring.

She was also panicking due to the fact she only had two more days till she had to hand in her patrol schedule… And James hadn't helped a bit! Claimed he was working hard at try outs for Quidditch…

On Lily's second night of classes, she had stayed up until 2 a.m. trying to finish the schedule. Around 2:30, James came in, all muddy.

"All right, don't tell me try outs lasted that long!" Lily said angrily.

"No, not exactly… But I had something really, really important to do." James tried to explain.

"Seeing off Remus would only take a minute! And he doesn't come back till morning!"

"But, Lily!"

"Whatever, James. I've been staying for two nights in a row to finish this schedule, and you are goofing off with your friends!" Lily shouted.

"No! Lily, you don't understand!" James said desperately.

"Then explain it to me." Lily said, narrowing her eyes.

"I, uh, um…" James stuttered.

"See! You can't even explain it! Good night James, and here's the schedule. I expect it to be done by tomorrow afternoon, when we have to see if it concurs with the professor's schedule." Lily said, stalking off into her bedroom.

James ran a hand over his brow. 'That hadn't gone well.' he thought.

James looked at the schedule. It was mostly completed, with only November and December left to be filled up.

"This is gonna be agonizing!" James entered his room and sat down. "First the fifth years patrol, then the sixth years, then me and Lily… seventh years last rotation, except for every other Wednesday because of NEWT Astronomy… This is so confusing!" James hit his head on the wall.

"Ooowww..."

Lily fell onto her bed, exhausted. 'Maybe I was too hard on him…' she thought. 'Nah! He has skipped work for two nights, he's got to take responsibility.'

Lily fell asleep quickly after that, to sleep soundly through the night.

Finishing the schedule in time was agony. James had stayed up till past 3:30, and only got about 4 hours of sleep before Lily banged on his door shouting, "You have 10 minutes till classes! Get UP!"

James dashed up and rushed into his robes. Checking to see he had everything, he dashed to class.

Getting to Transfiguration with barely seconds to spare, McGonagall gave him the evil eye. Sirius gave him thumbs up, and James let out a deep breath.

Lily rolled her eyes. That James Potter! Always almost late for class. 'Can't forget that small almost.' Lily turned to taking notes. They were learning how to change their desks into pigs.

"I've been waiting forever to do this, Anya!" Lily said, laughing. Alanna immediately turned her desk into a pig, but Anya and Lily were having trouble.

"You guys! You have to swish first, not circle." Alanna said, shaking her head.

"Know it all... It was just my luck to have a great Transfiguration student as my best friend!" Lily groaned. Anya laughed, and circled the perimeter of the desk twice, and it turned pink and with a springy tail.

"Damn it!" Anya swore, and Lily laughed. "Well, let's see you do it!" Anya huffed. "All right. But first, you're missing the swich!" Lily said. Anya swore again, softly this time.

Lily gave her wand a quick swish then the two clockwise circles, and said, "Animorphus!" The desk turned into a pig, but the hoofs were made out of wood.

"Excellent try, Miss Evans!" Anya said, imitating Professor Flitwick. "Concentrate, you must concentrate!" Alanna said, with the same sternness of Professor McGonagall.

All three began to laugh. Lily started to transform the pig back. "Furnimorphus!" she said strongly, doing two counter-clockwise circles, and then another swish. The pig immediately became a desk.

Alanna clapped, and Anya looked on in disbelief. "I thought you said you were bad at this!" Anya said.

Lily smiled. "Only to make this something new. Returning it the way it was is elementary." Anya stuck out her tongue.

Alanna nodded. "It is quite easy to return it to its normal shape. It's mostly like molding clay. Making it into a… phoenix is hard, but making it back into a lump isn't, do you see what I mean?"

"Very good analogy, Ms. Ross. Not completely correct, but good nonetheless." Professor McGonagall said behind her. Alanna jumped.

"Oh, hello, professor." Lily said, smiling. "Ms. Evans, will you demonstrate your wand work to the class?" McGonagall asked.

"But, professor, I can't do it completely correct…" Lily protested, but the look on the professor's face made her continue. Swish, two circles, then, "Animorphus!" The desk became a pig with, once again, wooden hooves.

Some of the class laughed, but those who had done horribly, or gotten the same result nodded, and smiled. "Now, turn it back." Professor McGonagall said. Two backwards circles, swish, then, "Furnimorphus!" The desk was back in its place, not a splinter out of place.

Professor McGonagall nodded. "I had my doubts, Ms. Evans, that you would make it into my class after what happened last year, but you have proved me wrong. Continue, class!" McGonagall walked off to another desk.

Lily let out a deep breath. "That went well, do you think?" Lily said with a smile. Anya gave her a thumbs up and Alanna said, "Wonderful!"

Then they both turned on Anya, and she said, "What?"

"You're the only one of us who hasn't even tried." Lily said. "Oh, phooey. I'm just no good at this class." Anya said, depressingly. Alanna smiled.

"That's why you have two geniuses as your best friends!" she said brightly. Lily nodded. They then began to coach her until the class was over.

James and Sirius had had no problem changing the desks. Then they spent the rest of the class just goofing off. When the class was over, James left for DADA with Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Lily also had that class, so she was trailing a bit behind the Marauders.

When James heard a scuffle behind him, he was surprised when he turned around. Lily had supposedly punched Snape in the nose. James rushed back, and said, "Are you okay?" Lily scoffed, and shrugged him off. "You should be more worried about him!"

James went to look at Snape. He called to a Slytherin 6th year nearby. "What do you want?" the boy said snottily.

"Carry him up to the Hospital wing." James ordered.

"What? He's got to be at least 40 pounds heavier than me." The boy said incredulously.

"You are a wizard, right? Or are you just a Squib, visiting?" James said roughly. The boys then turned and levitated Snape away.

"Lily! What happened?" James turned to her once again. "Nothing! He was just doing the usual crap about me being a mudblood… And I guess he can't stand you got to be Head Boy instead of him, so he's taking it out on me." James shook his head.

"Never thought you had it in ya, Evans." Sirius said, coming up behind the two. "Bugger off, Black." Lily said wrenching her shoulder from James's hand at the same time. "C'mon, guys, we've got to hurry." Lily said, calling to her friends who were standing there in shock.

Emma Barrows: Thanks, glad you love both!

SiriusBlackSFan: I don't think I can... in case you haven't heard this already, when people aren't in their respectable genre, they write horribly. I might start one, but just to warn you, it wouldn't stay Severus/Lily forever. Oh, and this one is going to stay L/J, Sry!