So Lily spent her days in classes and her nights split between Quidditch practice and her private lessons with Professor Cauldro. Lily was worn down and ready for what she thought was a well-deserved break when Christmas came. She also planned to read more of her books because of something Professor Cauldro had told her at the end of one of their lessons.

Lily had asked why, when she had been feeling so weak in the beginning of the year after her first use of her powers, had she only started to regain strength when she read her books.

Professor Cauldro had answered, "Well, you have a love of reading. It calms you when you are upset or keeps you occupied when you are bored. Books play a large part of who and what you are and are a way to keep your energy from being released dramatically after a use of your powers. Reading puts your mind, body, and soul at peace. Thus, when you started reading your books again, you regained most if not all the energy you had lost from the burst of your powers."

So Lily had asked James to borrow Myrddin and sent both he and Emrys home to have her mother send all her other books to read over the winter holiday.

The only people staying over the holiday in second year were Lily, Remus, Rini, Sirius, and Teresa. Everyone else decided to go home and spend Christmas with his or her family. Lily had asked James to go home so Remus and her could have some personal time without Remus worrying about James being an issue.

There were a few more people staying over the holiday than last year. A few students from the other years were also staying. The seventh years were staying so they could spend as much of their last year at the school.

Lily's books arrived almost two days after Lily had sent the owls out. Lily grabbed James present, tied it to Myrddin's legs, and sent him off to James. Then she gabbed her family's presents and tried the bundle to Emrys's legs, and sent her off again as well.

Whenever Lily wasn't reading she was hanging out with Remus, Rini, and Sirius. They would go out and have a snowball fight in the fresh snow or go visit Hagrid.

The day before Christmas, Lily and Rini decided to spend the day building a snow fort. They got as many of the remaining students to join them as they could. Everyone except the Slytherins wanted to. Rini was surprised at how many seventh years wanted to build the fort till Lily reminded her that it was their last year to build a spectacular snow fort on Hogwarts's grounds.

They went onto the grounds and, using their wands, moved a lot of the snow into one area. Then, using their wands, hands, and any other digging tool they found, they started to build. They made the tunnels large enough for the largest student there to go through.

Lily secretly started on a tunnel away from the others. After she had a tunnel large enough for her to fit through she went and got Remus. She had him try to crawl through the tunnel. He had minor difficulties so Lily made the tunnel a bit larger. When Remus was able to get through the tunnel easily Lily sent him away and continued to work on her digging. She made the tunnel fairly long. At the end of it she began to dig a cavern. When Lily was done, she had a cavern about five feet in diameter. She left her cavern and used a spell she had found to hide it from everyone save herself.

Lily told the others she'd be back and had Remus show her to the kitchens. She asked the house elves for a container of hot chocolate, two cups, a small, warm loaf of bread, and some warmed ham. The house elves eagerly put the food and drink into a basket for easy carrying. Then she and Remus left and went back to the grounds. Lily told Remus to go back to what he had been doing and then went to her cavern.

Lily removed the spell in case Remus tried to look for her. After making some last minute re-packing of the snow, she looked at her watch. It read eleven fifty-eight. She left the cavern again and got Remus to come back the tunnel. After Remus was in the tunnel, Lily started crawling in. She turned around and then said the hiding spell again. Remus was impressed with the work Lily had done in the two hours she had been missing from the rest of the group.

Lily pulled out a piece of cloth from her robe's pocket and laid it flat on the ground. The she pulled out the container of cocoa, the cups, the bread, and the ham. Though Lily hadn't asked them to, the house elves had cut both the bread and the ham. They ate their lunch there in happiness talking about this and that.

After they had eaten, Lily put the remains of the bread and ham in their coverings and put them back in the basket. She put the piece of cloth in the basket as well. Remus laid back and pulled Lily down beside him. "You're amazing, you know that," he said.

Lily blushed. "I take it you liked my hidden cavern and our private lunch."

"Liked it? I loved it!" Remus paused for a moment. "Did you just say it's a hidden cavern?"

"Yeah. Why?"

Remus leaned over and kissed Lily. "Oh, no reason," he said and kissed her again.

In the tunnel that connected to Lily's private tunnel, Lukas Mio was checking the tunnels for cave-ins. He caught the smell of ham and cocoa. He couldn't see any tunnel openings so he felt for them. On his left the wall suddenly disappeared. He looked carefully at the wall. It looked to be solid. Feeling for both sides of the hidden tunnel.

Thinking it to be wise to be quiet, he sneaked into the tunnel. It was rather smaller than the others were. Crawling as quietly as he could, he crawled to the end of the tunnel. What he saw was a fairly good-sized cavern with a basket and two people in it. The two people were kissing. He looked closer at the couple. They were kneeling with the boy's arms around her waist and one of the girl's hands was holding onto the back of his head. Suddenly, he recognized the girl. "Miss Lily Evans!" he shouted.

Lily and Remus broke apart and turned towards the entrance of their cavern. "Luke!" Lily cried in anger when she saw her Quidditch captain. "How did you find my tunnel? And what are you doing here!" she demanded.

"Yes, Lily. I found your tunnel by following the smell of your lunch. And I could asked the same of you!"

"I made this tunnel and cavern for Remus and me and then I used a spell to hide it. It's obvious what we are doing in here, but that doesn't answer to what you are doing here."

"I was checking the tunnels for cave-ins and I smelled your lunch. Then I felt the opening to your tunnel and went through it. That brings us to here."

"So what do you want?"

Luke sat back and looked around Lily's cavern. "Did you dig this all by yourself?" Lily nodded. "Well, you disappeared around ten, so I gander it took about two hours to do." Lily nodded again. "Impressive."

"That's what I said," Remus put in. "Hi, I'm Remus Lupin. I'm guessing you're Lucas Mio."

"Yeah. Call me Luke. Lily, would you mind if I brought Angela here? It's so romantic the way it was dug out for a private lunch and make out." With yet another nod from a blushing Lily, Luke left to get Angela.

Remus sat down Indian-style and Lily sat in his lap with her head on Remus's shoulder. "So that was your team captain. Nice guy."

"Mm hmm," Lily mumbled. Lily started softly singing a song about a dreamland. Not only was Lily's mind painting a beautiful picture, so was Remus's. When Luke came back with Angela a few minutes later, Angela kept her eyes closed while Lily finished her song. As she did finish, she realized they had come and welcomed them.

Angela stared at the cavern just and Remus and Luke had. "Incredible," she murmured.

"So I've been told," Lily said with a laugh.

Luke sat across from Remus and Lily and Angela crawled into his lap into the same position Lily was in. They started talking about Quidditch and problems with their relationships. They only left their comfortable little cavern when dinner came. The two couples sat together at dinner as well.

The rest of the holiday those who had built the fort spent it in there. They added more caverns with the fresh snow that fell and repaired old caverns. Lily and Remus's cavern remained hidden from everyone besides Luke and Angela. Lily even caught them once the way Luke had Remus and her.

Lily was a bit sad the last day of the winter holiday came. It meant that the fort would probably be taken down and left to melt. The bright spot in the day was that James would be returning.

Thinking of James she started toying with his gift. He had sent her another necklace. The pendant on it was a crescent moon with stars all around it. Lily thought it was one of the most beautiful gifts she had received.

To Lily's surprise that night at dinner Dumbledore said that the fort those who had stayed over during the holiday had worked so hard to create would not be taken down! It would be left up so people could still enter it during the weekends. Lily planned on taking James on a tour.