Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. The wonderful JK Rowling does! I wish I did, then I'd be rich! Just kidding! Please don't sue me for writing a fan fic that I really hope you enjoy!
Also, 99 percent of the dream in this chapter was the perfect JK Rowling's writing, not mine, hers. Don't sue/hate me for using it! I'm just trying to make the story an enjoyment to read.
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James came down to breakfast, whistling 'Happy Birthday to you'. He sat down and gave Lily a hug. "Good morning Lily! Do you know what day it is?" James asked.
Lily looked at him sideways, "Er, Tuesday? Worst day of the week?" she asked.
"No, Sirius, do you know what day it is?" James asked, a little surprised Lily didn't remember.
Sirius looked up from his toast. "No . . . what is it?"
James looked crestfallen. "Remus? Peter? Marissa? Does anyone know what today is?"
Everyone shook their heads. "Just tell us!" Marissa said impatiently.
James had a huge frown on his face. "My birthday! No one remembered my birthday?"
Everyone gasped. "Are you sure?" Remus asked.
"Of course I'm sure! I won't forget my own birthday! February 17th!" James said.
"Mate, we're sorry, I don't know how we forgot," Sirius said sympathetically.
James focused all of his attention on his plate. "What if we made it up to you? We could sneak out tonight and go to Hogsmeade if you want," Lily said hopefully.
"No thanks, I don't want to hang out with people who I thought were my best friends, but could so easily forget my birthday," James said. He grabbed his bag and left.
The five friends shared a knowing look, and got their bags together to go to their first class.
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The whole day James ignored all of them. By dinner he finally caved and sat with them, but only answering in 'yes, no, I don't know' whenever they tried to talk to him. Lily tried all attempts to get his attention, like kissing him, but every time she tried, he pushed her away.
"Let's just go back to the common room! This is pointless trying to get you to talk to us!" Sirius said hopelessly.
James abruptly stood up and walked and a fast pace. His friends had to run to catch up with him.
Lily tried to put her arm through his, but he pulled back. Lily sighed and said, "Silenco!" to the portrait. A jet of light shot out of her hand and hit the portrait, making the Fat Lady unable to speak.
Every one looked at Lily, stunned. "What did I do?" she asked stupidly.
"I don't know, say the counter curse," Marissa said.
"Er…Finite Incantatem!" Lily said. The portrait was able to speak again.
"Well, not ever has a student tried to hex me!" The Fat Lady said.
"I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to," Lily said.
"Well you better be sorry! As Head Girl, you should really change the password to something else," The Fat Lady said.
"Alright, it's Happy Birthday James!" Lily said, smiling sweetly at James, who in return rolled his eyes.
"That's not going to make up for forgetting my birthday," James said grumpily.
"Dearie, you forget your own fiancé's birthday?" the Fat Lady asked.
"No! Argh! Just let us in!" Lily said.
"I can't until you alert the Gryffindor House members that there is a new password," the Fat Lady replied angrily.
"Fine! Peter, please go tell the Gryffindors the password. And don't say it out loud, whisper it to people," Lily asked sweetly.
Peter rolled his eyes. "Fine, but I better get something in return."
"Whatever, just go!"
Peter waddled away, and the Fat Lady swung open on her hinges to let them in.
As soon as they all arrived, there was a loud chorus of "HAPPY SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY JAMES!"
James mouth dropped open as everyone in Gryffindor and a few people in other houses greeted him.
Lily wrapped an arm around his waist and kissed his cheek. "Did you really think that your best friends would forget your birthday?"
James grinned and hugged Lily tight. "Thank you," he whispered in her ear.
"Hey, it was your fellow Marauders and Marissa's idea also," Lily said.
James turned and gave Marissa a huge hug, then went to Sirius, Remus and Peter, who returned from the Great Hall, and gave them a bear hug.
"Geroff! What have you been smoking?" Sirius said, pushing James off.
"So I was mad at you guys all day for nothing?" James asked, ignoring Sirius' question.
"Yes, but it was worth it to see that look on your face," Marissa said.
James had one of the best birthdays he had ever had. He danced with Lily, got a ton of presents, joked and laughed with his friends, got a ton of presents, and had the ultimate party package, along with a ton of presents.
The party was winding down, and lots of people were going to bed. Pretty soon it was past one in the morning, and the four couples were sitting together, chatting just as they did at Christmas, except now Peter and Petula were there.
"I say we play hooky tomorrow, I don't think I can handle classes with only four hours of sleep," Sirius said, yawning widely.
"I don't think we should, we have NEWTS this year and one class could be important," Lily said.
"We really don't have any important classes, we all have Muggle Studies, Herbology, and History of Magic," Remus said.
They debated whether they should go to classes or not, then Lily finally gave in and said they could play hooky.
When it was five in the morning and someone came down from the stairs ready to go to class, the friends all decided to go to bed. The girls were going to the boy's bedroom and putting a Soundproof charm on the bed hangings so they could talk without disrupting another couple attempting to sleep.
Remus and Kiah lay down, and sat there in silence for a while, Remus grazing his thumb along Kiah's forearm. "Do you ever wonder what the future is going to be like?" Remus asked after a while.
"Of course, who doesn't?" Kiah asked.
"I mean, like, who you're going to be with and if you'll have kids," Remus said carefully.
"I think everybody does, at least every girl does. Every time girls go out with guys they start putting their first name with his last name and start drawing pictures of what their kids will look like," Kiah stopped talking abruptly.
Remus sat up a little. "Do you do that?" he asked hopefully.
"No, I-I think that's immature," Kiah said hurriedly, stuttering.
"Oh," Remus said disappointed.
After a moment of silence, Kiah asked, "Do you want me to do that?"
Remus looked at her, then said, "You promise not to freak out or think I'm moving too fast?"
Kiah grinned. "I promise."
"Okay, well, I love you, so much, and every time I think about a future with some one, I think about it with you," Remus said quickly, bracing himself for her rejection.
Kiah sat up. " I feel the exact same way about you, but I was trying to figure out how to tell you."
"You mean it?" Remus asked.
Kiah nodded. "I love you more than anything Remus."
"I love you more than you love me," Remus said with an almost taunting manner.
"Don't be so sure," Kiah muttered, then pulled him into a hug, kissing his lips briefly.
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Everyone in the room woke up an hour after they went to bed. The whole day they sat around, just talking and sneaking down to the kitchens to get food.
"There has to be a way for a boy to get to the girls dormitories," James said thoughtfully.
"Yeah, Hogwarts has all kind of secret passages, maybe there's one some where in Gryffindor tower," Sirius said hopefully.
"Doubt it, why would the Hogwarts creators spend a ton of time putting charms up on those stairs if there was another way to get it?" Kiah said.
"Well, why would they make a rule for no one to leave Hogwarts unless it's a Hogsmeade weekend or a break, if there is just secret passages to get out?" Remus said.
"I don't know, it would be cool if you guys found a way, but if not, I wouldn't be too terribly surprised," Marissa said.
Peter slowly started grinning. "Guys, remember that portrait on the third floor of those girls sleeping? And how we thought it was a secret passageway, but couldn't get into it?"
Sirius, James and Remus grinned. "Let's go," James said, picking up the Invisibility Cloak.
"Go where?" Lily asked.
"That's probably the passage way! Take Petula and Kiah to your dormitories and hang out, maybe we'll see you there," Sirius said to the girls. They nodded, and all eight of them headed down the stairs, girls going to their dormitories, boys carefully hiding themselves and going out the portrait hole.
The Marauders worked their way to the floor. "There it is," James said, walking towards, the others close behind him. They pulled the Invisibility Cloak off.
"Er, excuse me," Remus said politely to the sleeping girls. They looked like they were in first year. They slept on, not noticing they were even there.
"HEY! WAKE THE BLOODY HELL UP!" Sirius shouted at the portrait. The girls sat up, slowly blinking at the boys.
"No one has ever done that before," a blonde girl said, yawning widely.
"Aren't you guys the Marauders?" a very small girl asked, her voice squeaking.
"Yeah, we are, and we were wondering if this portrait is a secret passageway," James said.
The four girls looked at each other. "Well, we aren't supposed to tell anyone, on the four great creator's orders," said a brunette.
"Well, is there a password or something we could do to get in?" Peter asked.
"Yes actually, you have to touch something with your pinkie finger. But you only get three chances to pick the correct object in the picture. If you guess it right, then you can use this passageway any time you wish," said the small girl.
"Really? Is that all?" Sirius asked.
"Yes, and if you don't get it correct, then you will never be able to see what is inside," said another blonde girl.
"So we have to make these guesses good," James said, pushing his glasses up on the bridge of his nose.
"It's most likely something small and unnoticeable," Remus said.
"Peter has the best eyesight, let him find something!" Sirius said.
"M-me?" Peter asked.
"Yeah, go ahead and find something," Sirius said.
Peter studied the picture for a long time, and he finally pointed something out. "There, under the bed."
James looked closely, and saw a dark outline. "Excuse me," he said to the brunette, "could you pull that thing out from under your bed?"
The brunette smiled and nodded, reaching under and pulling out a photo album. "That's one choice, keep looking Peter," James said.
Peter studied it a while longer and pointed out two more things, a wand and a Quidditch key chain. "All right men, pick your guesses," Sirius said, "I'm opting for the key chain."
"No, if it's the passageway to the girls dormitories, it would probably be the photo album," Remus said.
"I don't know, the wand seems like a pretty good choice. Was there anything else Peter?" James said.
"Well, there was a sock and snitch replica, but nothing else big," Peter said.
After a little bit of arguing, they decided to go with the snitch. "Incorrect," the small girl said, throwing the snitch aside.
"Okay, then we think the photo album is it," Remus said.
"Incorrect," the brunette said, shoving the book underneath the bed.
"Let's pick the sock!" Sirius said.
"Why would it be a sock?" Remus asked, a little annoyed.
Sirius shrugged. "'Cause no one would ever guess it. So let's be different and try it!"
Remus sighed and said, "Is the sock the answer?"
"Correct!" one of the blondes said. The portrait slowly changed into a door.
"I told you so!" Sirius said with a satisfactory smile.
"Whatever, let's just see if it leads to the girls dormitories," Remus said, opening the door.
They walked through a long, dark, musty tunnel. After about ten minutes, they came to four doors. One had a picture of a snake, the other a lion, another with a badger, and then last but not least, an eagle.
"I think this is it guys!" James said. He walked to the door with the lion, and slowly opened it. He groaned.
"What is it?" Sirius asked.
"It leads to the common room!" James said, very annoyed.
"No way! We would've found it a long time ago!" Sirius said. They stepped inside the common room, emerging magically through the wall, just as Professor Binns does in class.
"Maybe we could still walk up the girls staircase," Peter said hopefully.
"I'll try it! I want to be the first student in history to do so!" Sirius said. He ran to the top, grinning like a mad man, when the stairs suddenly turned to a slide. An invisible force pushed him down headfirst. "Argh! There is no possible way! I give up!" Sirius said when his head hit the bottom.
The four girls slid neatly down the slide. "I'm guessing that you didn't find a way to get to our dormitories," Lily said, looping her arm through James'.
"No," James said heavily. He sat on the couch, pulling Lily with him. James told the group the story of how they got in and found out it just lead to the different houses common rooms.
"We could've used that information a long time ago," Sirius said grumpily, eying the wall he came out of. "Just think the havoc we could've caused if we had that much of an easy access to all the common rooms!"
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James was standing in a large room with raised stadium seating that looked a little like the Quidditch field. In the middle was a black veil, moving as if there were a breeze flowing through it. As he continued to look around, he saw people dueling in many places. He heard his name and turned to his left.
"The prophecy, give me the prophecy, Potter!" The voice was coming from a very aged looking Lucius Malfoy. He was pinning down a young boy and pressing a wand to his ribs. James squinted to see who it was. He looked and goose bumps popped up on his skin. It was himself! He looked closer. Wait, it can't be me, James thought, I don't have green eyes. Those are Lily's eyes. James gasped. This had to be his and Lily's son!
He shook his head and continued watching. There was another boy next to him. His legs were moving around everywhere. He looked like he was hit with the Tarantallegra curse.
The boy who looked like James was speaking now. "No – get – off – me...Neville – catch it!" The boy that had the Tarantallegra curse reached up and caught a bottle that the other boy threw.
Malfoy then pointed his wand at the boy called Neville. The other boy grabbed his wand and shouted, "Impedimenta!" Malfoy was blasted off his back and across the room. He smashed into the dais where two people were dueling. He looked at them closer and realized who they were. It was Bellatrix Black and Sirius! Sirius looked a lot older. His face wasn't full of laughter but gaunt and sunken. There was grief and fury in his eyes.
While he was examining Sirius, Malfoy leaped up and pointed his wand at the boy. Before he could shout a curse, another man jumped between them. It looked like Remus! He was a lot older also...
"Harry, round up the others and GO!" Remus said. So the boy's name is Harry. Harry Potter. That sounds really good together . . . James thought. He continued to watch the scene around him.
Harry tried to pull Neville up but his legs kept jerking and he couldn't stop moving around. Harry began pushing him up the stone steps.
Someone threw a spell at the step Harry's ankle was on. It crumbled away and Harry fell a step. Neville sank to the ground and pocketed the prophecy.
"Come on!" Harry said desperately, hauling Neville's robes. "Just try and push with your legs –"
Harry kept pushing and Neville's robes tore. The prophecy dropped from his pocket and before either of them could catch it, Neville's leg kicked it. The bottle smashed and a white figure rose out of it. She had huge magnified eyes and strange clothing. Her mouth was moving but it was too loud to hear what she was saying.
"Harry, I'b sorry!" cried Neville, "I'b so sorry Harry, I didn'd bean do –"
"It doesn't matter!" Harry shouted, "Just try and stand, let's get out of –"
"Dubbledore!" Neville said staring over Harry's shoulder.
"What?"
"DUBBLEDORE!"
James and Harry looked up. There was Dumbledore standing in a doorway with his face white and furious. James shrank back. He'd never seen Dumbledore this angry before.
Dumbledore raced down the steps past Harry and Neville. When he reached the foot of the stairs a few of the people tried to run for it. Dumbledore cast a spell that pulled them all back together as if they were hooked by an invisible line.
James looked around and saw Bellatrix and Sirius still dueling. Sirius ducked Bellatrix's red jet of light. He was laughing at her. "Come on, you can do better than that!" he yelled, his voice echoing around the room. Then a second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest. James froze, hardly breathing.
The laughter hadn't died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock. Sirius was swiftly falling ever so slowly. His body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backward through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. Sirius had a look of mingled surprise and fear on his gaunt face. He fell through the doorway and disappeared behind the veil, which fluttered slightly and then fell back in place.
James screamed, "NOOOOOO! SIRIUS!"
At the same time, Harry screamed, "SIRIUS! SIRIUS!"
James sat up suddenly in bed. He was sweating all over and shaking. His sheets were twisted around his legs. His chest was heaving and his breathing ragged, as if he had just stopped running.
Sirius yanked back James' bed curtains. Right beside him was Remus and a sleepy Peter. "What's the matter? Why were you screaming?" Sirius asked him.
James looked at them. "I was screaming?"
"Yeah you were. You kept screaming 'nooooooo'. You look like hell, mate, are you all right?" Sirius was asking. James couldn't remember any of his dream. He buried his face in his hands, concentrating on the dream. All he could remember was Sirius and Remus looking very old.
"I-I'm fine guys. Really. Sirius you don't look so great yourself, your hair is worse than mine." He drew out a shaky laugh and then a shiver went down his spine. "I'm ok, just a nightmare. You can go back to bed."
Everyone started mumbling and went to their own beds. Sirius dashed in the bathroom and started feverently brushing his hair flat. When he was satisfied he lay back down in his bed. Sirius gave James his last 'are you sure your all right' look. James nodded and Sirius grinned. James flopped down on his pillows and pulled his bed hangings around him, still terrified of whatever he dreamt. He slowly fell back asleep. Before he completely drifted off, he heard Sirius older voice saying, "Beware James, Peter is a traitor, save your family and get rid of him now, before it's too late..."
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Author Notes: The later chapters are updated! ((cheers and whistles)) Sorry it took forever! And I was in such good spirits I decided to update this one the next day. You want to know why I'm in good spirits? It's because I have…
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xx-Heartbroken: YAY TAYLOR WON! Dude…doesn't matter if Taylor is a guy, Katherine is the worst ever! Taylor was amazing, he was thanking everyone during his song when Katherine would've soaked up all that time bouncing around the stage trying to seduce every male (and possibly female…dirty little minx) in America. While reading you're review I realized Snape and rape rhyme (Coincidence? I think NOT!). Ok I'm gunna paint you a more visual picture…why Lily was so traumatized was not because he touched her "arse" or "breast" but think like he had her pressed up against him and his hand could've possibly gone down the front of her knickers and…well you get it now right? Thank you for your advice on disclaiming the song…I'll go back and do that. Yeah I thought Sirius crying was over the top but a lot of the stuff I put in that I'm not sure about I wait and see if anyone will read it and be like that was stupid and tell me to change it, so thanks! Yeah I hate stories that play off Sirius as an overly done man-whore. My view is he kinda had some month long relationships with a few of Hogwarts finer sluts and, at least in my story, never had a serious relationship until Kiah. I'm 16 years old and yes, Ferris Bueller's Day off is the movie where he calls in sick to school (for the 9th time) and has a day of fun coming home in time for supper. I love that movie. Yeah I defiantly need to edit that and make the Lily falling more drawn out. It's basically there because of the Dumbledore thing and later on when James talks about Harry playing Quidditch Lily gets all freaky and says it's too dangerous. I don't know…it's not entirely needed but I think if I re-write it, it will be fine. Thank you so much for your input! Calypso was the one who kissed Sirius and Marissa walked in and saw which started the whole, in my opinion, overly dramatic break up that I need to re-write. Sorry, I should've specified (apparently I'm really bad at it) it's not technically a promise ring, like promise to get married, it's more like I will always love you ring. I got the idea from one of my friends who is in a serious relationship and her boyfriend gave her what is technically a promise ring but it's really an I'll love you forever ring. I know there was a lot of albums…I couldn't think of presents! Lol. I don't get offended at all by your criticism, I actually look forward to your reviews because no one ever criticizes my story and I absolutely hate some chapters but I never know what to change, so thanks!
Demi: Well I defiantly wish Chris would've won…but at least TAYLOR WON and not STUPID KATHERINE! But if Chris won, he would be locked into that American Idol contract and sing those happy feel good "butterflies over the rainbow" songs and that's so not Chris. At least after the tour contract is done he can have freedom to do what he wants. And thank you for the Kelly comment! No one gets why Kelly got out of the AI contract and it's because they locked her into those "puppy dogs and beautiful world" songs that were alright but not magnificent like her current album. I love how AI completely acts like Kelly never went on their show after she got out of the contract then Kelly gets all big (AKA winning two Grammies, being at the top of every chart there is, four different tours in one year, all sold out) then it's like oh yeah, she was the first AI! And there was that whole big uproar about how offended AI was that they weren't mentioned in either of her Grammy speeches. Well, it has been her dream and she was sorta flustered and probably left out a lot of people, AI should shut up! Speaking of March of Dimes, that's Kelly's favorite fundraiser lol. I know what you mean about schools being cheap, every time we raise a lot of money and we get promised all this cool stuff they are always like oh nevermind. And now we have a Hitler principal that is taking away all our rewards for doing well in school and it's going to turn into Nazi camp.
CASOCCERCHIC02: Well I'm glad you like that they got together again fast, most people complained it wasn't long enough and I'm like well you run out of stuff to write after a bit. This year we got out at a good time but last year it wasn't until like end of June. Then we went back early August. Oh yeah, even though we got out early this year we have to go back August 2nd or something crazy like that. :( I'm mad. Anyways, sorry you didn't get to be the 100th reviewer, but thanks for reviewing anyways!