"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh," Lily said.
"What now?" Emma asked grumpily.
Lily had woken them up earlier on that morning because the exams would take place the next day. "I am so going to fail Transfiguration!" Lily wailed.
"Let me go get James," Emma said, "he's best in that subject."
Before Lily could object she had rushed off to find James. She returned minutes later with the Marauders by her side. James pulled up a chair next to Lily. "Alright, Evans, what exactly do you need help with?" James asked.
Lily whined, "Everything, I am going to fail!"
James looked startled and said, "Shh, it's okay let's just start from the beginning shall we?"
Lily nodded and he began to explain everything he could. Sirius sat next to Emma and said, "What do you want to be?'
"Oh, I want to be an Auror," Emma said.
"Oh, same here, it seems like hard work though," Sirius said.
"Well no kidding, did you think it would be easy?" Emma teased.
"Nah, well yea," Sirius said.
Emma laughed and said, "Okay since you're here you can quiz me on potions!"
"Potions? But you do so well in that class!" Sirius said.
"Slughorn hates me!" Emma explained.
"Oh brilliant reason to fail something," Sirius said jokingly.
"Come on, please?" Emma asked.
"Alright but only because you were my fellow beater," Sirius agreed.
"Yay!' Emma said happily.
Sirius began to quiz Emma and Remus looked over at Katy. "What are you studying?" he asked.
"Defense against the Dark Arts," Katy replied.
"Oh, you want me to quiz you?" Remus offered.
"Oh, sure," Katy said smiling, "Do you think you could get Erica here she's really good in Charms?"
Remus nodded, "she's coming she just had to talked to Mum."
"Mum?" Katy asked blanking out.
"You know McGonagall," Remus explained.
"Oh yea, sorry I blanked out for a moment there," Katy explained.
"No problem," Remus said.
Right on cue Erica arrived. "Hey Erica come here, can you quiz me on Charms?" Katy called out.
Erica nodded and made her way over to their table. The sixth year students studied all day until Sirius complained that his stomach was growling. The group ate dinner and then Lily made them all get some rest for the exams tomorrow. Waking up at seven sharp Lily woke up the others and showered. After they showered they headed to breakfast. Sirius flagged them over to the far end of the table where the other three marauders sat looking half dead. "You ready for the exams?" Remus asked.
"Yes," Emma and Katy said at the same time Lily said, "No!"
Emma and Katy rolled their eyes at their worrying friend and said, "You'll pass with flying colors as usual."
Lily smiled nervously and nibbled at a piece of toast. When breakfast was over they made their way over to Transfiguration for their first Quiz of the day. Once they entered the classroom Lily found a spot in the center of the classroom and sat down. When they sat down their bags disappeared. Professor McGonagall sat in front of the students. Professor McGonagall's long brown hair was flowing down to her shoulders out of her usual messy bun. She was in her thirties and was still pretty. "Your bags are at your dorms you won't take them to other classes. We supply parchment and Quills. Begin!"
With a flick of her wand the tests were passed out as well as quills, parchment, and ink. When their was five minutes left Sirius leaned back and put his feet on the desk. James was drawing Lily on the table and writing James loves Lily on her shirt. Lily was proof reading her test. Katy was twirling her quill with a bored look on her face. Emma was muttering, "Damn hair keeps getting in my face!" "Times up!" McGonagall yelled.
With a swish of her wand the test disappeared along with the quill, ink, and parchment. "That was simple!" Sirius declared.
Lily scowled and led them to charms. Professor Swish went over the rules before handing out the tests and supplies. When the written exam ended he called each student up to his desk. James was asked to levitate the desk and place it on a shelf. He succeeded much to Professor Swish's delight.
Lily was asked to shrink the desk and banish it. She also succeeded and Professor Swish took it upon himself to clap for her.
Sirius was asked to banish the shelf and conjure it back. He managed to do it.
Professor Swish soon got bored of making up exams so he made the rest of the class summon things. "Oh, that exam was so easy," Lily said happily skipping to lunch.
"Oh, yea, I he asked me to make the plate dance I blew it up!" Emma complained.
Sirius laughed, "You failed an exam!"
"Shut up," Emma muttered catching up to Lily and entering the Great Hall.
Sirius, still laughing, caught up with Emma and sat down at the table. "What exam do we have next?" he asked.
"You all have divination, I have Arithmacy!" Lily bragged.
"At least we learn something in Divination," James argued grabbing some toast.
"Oh, yea what's that?" Lily asked challengingly.
"That it's a piece of crap that everyone fails!" James said.
Lily scowled and James smirked happily, "I always win," he said.
"Come on we have to head to the tower!" Emma said pulling James of the seat.
James, Sirius, Remus, Emma, and Katy headed to Divination. When they got their Emma conjured up cushions for all of them to sit on while they waited to be called. The trap door opened and a silver ladder appeared. "Black, Sirius," Madame Roseanne's voice said.
Sirius banished his cushion and climbed the ladder. Ten minutes later he came down and said, "I so quit this class," before leaving the tower.
Madame Roseanne called several more names before saying, "Lupin, Remus." Sighing Remus banished his cushion and climbed the ladder. When he returned he made a gagging noise and headed down the spiral stairs.
"Potter, James." James stood up and threw his cushion towards the steps. He climbed the ladder but returned only three minutes later. He sat on his cushion and slid down the steps screaming the whole way.
"Prewitt, Emma." Emma stood up and climbed the ladder. Five minutes later she said, "Katy, it's your turn I convinced her to let you go next."
Katy climbed the later and was only in the room for two minutes. Together Katy and Emma sat on their cushions and slid down the steps letting out screams of joy the whole way. On the way down Katy asked, "So what happened with Ted?"
Emma sighed, "I broke up with him of course."
Katy grinned, "Oh, of course."
When they finally reached the common room they found all the sixth years partying. "Why are they partying?" Emma asked.
"You've forgotten some only took three classes, we don't all have the same schedule, like for instance you don't take Herbology, but for healing I have to," Lily explained.
"Well Katy and I have the same schedule since we are both going to be Aurors," Emma declared.
"Well so do Remus and me," Lily bragged.
"Actually I take divination and you don't," Remus pointed out.
Lily scowled and the others laughed. "Oh no, we have another career meeting with Mum when we get back. To see if we can go into the required classes!" Emma whined.
"I am not going to be able to make it into charms and then I'll not be able to be an Auror!" Emma said.
"I'm sure you'll get a least an E in charms," Lily reasoned.
"Oh, good that's the standard grade you need for NEWT classes," Emma said.
"Really how do you know?" Katy asked.
"There's a chart," Lily said pulling out a huge chart.
It read:
Charms: E -Swish
Transfiguration: O -McGonagall
Potions: A –Slughorn
Defense against the Dark Arts – E
Herbology – E
History – A
Specials – E
Katy breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I think I passed all my mandatory classes."
The rest of the exams went by quickly. On the last day of school the sixth years sat outside by the lake. James and Sirius were once again torturing Snape. Lily marched over and said, "Potter leave him alone you prick!"
"Prick? Me? No," James said.
"Ugh, you are so annoying just change Snape back to his original gender!" Lily said.
"I'm afraid he already is in his original gender," Sirius said gesturing towards Snape the girl.
Lily scowled and changed Snape back, "Potter this is the last time I will warn you next time you'll be drowning in the lake!"
"Come on Evans, how bout one date? You, me and the three broomsticks," James suggested grinning cheekily.
"Never," Lily said.
"I'll never torture Snape again," James said.
"Why you little prick! Is that what you think this is about, Snape? It's not because you torture him, though it helps a bit. It's because you make me sick! I told you this last year. It's they way you walk around like you are the greatest person on earth. Well guess what you aren't even good enough to wipe the slime on Snape's shoes. You're a git! A prick if I've ever seen one!" Lily yelled stomping back into the castle.
James looked as if he'd been slapped in the face and had his heart torn out then stomped on repeatedly. He walked back to the castle silently ignoring Sirius' calls.