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A/N- Hello, I figured I'd put this at the beginning instead of the end. Got to mix things up a bit. Thanks Reviewers! You brighten my day!

Shalaren- I can't pass up that offer: ) This one's for you! I'm so excited to get another reviewer! Thanks!

pandas rule the world- You'll find out today. I'm sorry if your disappointed though, I just couldn't think of anything. Thanks for reviewing!

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"Harry...Harry, wake up."

Harry opened his eyes slightly as he was being gently shaken awake. "S' too early." He mumbled groggily.

"Harry Potter, you wake up right this minute!"

He opened his eyes the rest of the way and the blurry outline of his mother came slowly into view. He sat up quickly and grabbed his glasses off the night stand. "What's wrong, are you ok? What happened?

Lily was shocked at his sudden alertness, "Nothing's wrong, I just wanted to give you something."

"Oh," Harry said as his breathing returned to normal, "I thought everyone is exchanging gifts tomorrow morning in the common room."

"I know, I just wanted to give this to you in private so I didn't have to explain in front of everyone." Lily said shortly.

"Oh...ok then." He said as he moved over so she had enough room to sit down. She handed him a fairly thin package and sat so she was facing him. He looked at her questioningly and tore the paper to reveal a green book with a lily on the front.

"It's my diary." She began nervously, "I know it's not a usual gift to give someone, but I didn't really know what you liked and when I asked Ginny just told me to get you something that was important to me and well..." She trailed off staring at the sheets. "My diary is one of the most important things I have. My mom gave it to me when I was 8 and I have always carried it around with me to stop Petunia from trying to read it. Do you know about Petunia?"

Harry nodded, "Yea, I know her."

"Oh ok, I wasn't sure. She doesn't like me very much and I wasn't sure if we were in contact in the future. But since you know her, that must mean she's gotten over her grudge." Lily said smiling. "Anyway, I just got used to carrying it with me and I've written all of my feelings and every significant thing that's happened to me in there. Nobody has read it but me of course, but..." She faltered again and looked at him awkwardly.

Harry was speechless. He sat there gaping at her with his mouth slightly open.

"Of course I understand if you don't like it," She began quickly. "It is a strange gift and---"

"No," Harry said firmly, cutting her off. "It's great. No one has ever given me something like this before. It's perfect."

Lily smiled and stood up. "Ok, well...you'd better get back to bed."

She began walking towards to door but stopped as Harry said,

"Wait!" He got out of bed, walked over to her, and hugged her. "Thanks...mom."

Harry and Ron awoke on Christmas morning to find their usual piles of gifts at the foot of their beds. Ron started on his pile at once and had made quite a dent by the time Harry began to unwrap his own.

First he opened his gift from Hagrid, which was a rather large tin of his treacle fudge. Next he opened a big parcel which turned out to be from the Order members and contained another set of defense books, he assumed that Dumbledore was the one that told them to do that. Dumbledore was trying to prepare him as much as possible for his inevitable battle with Voldemort. He moved on to the gift from (future)Remus, which included a note telling him to be careful and a few dark detectors. He began feeling that this was not too bad of a Christmas when his eyes fell on Mr. and Mrs. Weasley's usual gift. He shifted uncomfortably.

MARAUDER'S ROOM

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Sirius yelled in James's ear.

James bolted up and cursed loudly.

"Language Prongs, language!" Remus said sleepily, but still grinning from his bed.

"I'd like to hear what you would have said if he yelled in your ear!" James huffed.

"Well, sorry! I thought that since Hermione wanted us all to exchange presents downstairs, you might want to wake up and shower or something." Sirius replied.

James grumbled but didn't say anything. He looked around and saw that Peter was still sleeping, "Padfoot you didn't do your job right. Wormtail is still asleep."

Sirius also looked over to where Peter was still sleeping soundly. "Well, we can't have that!"

He quickly walked over to Peter's bed and placed his hands under the mattress. He looked up at Remus and James, "Any objections?"

They both shook their heads and Sirius grinned. He flipped the mattress over and Peter fell off the bed with a loud thump.

The room burst out into laughter and Peter appeared from the floor.

"What was that for?" He yelled angrily.

"You wouldn't wake up." Said Remus shrugging.

"And we can't have you missing Christmas, can we?" Sirius said still grinning.

Peter glared at him and strode off toward the bathroom.

"Well that was rude," Sirius said when the door was slammed shut. "Not a 'thank you' or anything."

James laughed, "Well I wouldn't have expected a thank you, if I were you." He stared at the door for a minute and after he hear the water start running he said, "Have you guys noticed something strange about Peter lately?"

The others looked at him quickly and Sirius said, "Yea, I'm not sure what it is though."

"There has definently been something..off." Remus agreed.

"And the way he acts toward Harry.." James added thoughtfully. "He refused to even help with the gift for him."

"It's not just that though. He's been acting strange since the beginning of the year, before we even came here." Sirius said frowning.

"He said something to me that day we were in Hogsmeade. He thinks that Harry shouldn't be trusted, that there is something wrong with him." Remus said.

"Why would he think that?" James asked angrily.

"I don't know. But I'm sure it has to do with how he's been acting lately." Remus said slowly.

"I think I'm going to go downstairs now." James said shortly as he got dressed and left the room. He sunk into the armchair and rubbed his head. Why would Peter think that there is something wrong with my son? What has Harry done to him? Why has he been acting so weird lately, I just don't get it!

The sound of a door shutting made him look up and he saw Lily descending the staircase. Oh man...should I run for it? Nothing has ever gone well when we are alone. I don't want to get in another argument with her. Has she even seen me yet? Could I leave without her noticing?

"Hello James, Merry Christmas." Lily said brightly.

"Merry Christmas." He replied, slightly surprised.

"Do you mind if I sit here?" She asked pointing at the armchair facing him.

"Not at all." He said honestly.

They sat there tensely for a minute before Lily asked, "So did you sleep well?"

James stared at her, "I guess so...did you?"

"Yes, quite well." Lily answered. They were silent once more and Lily began fidgeting with her hands.

"Ok, what's going on?" James asked, his confusion showing on his face.

"Well," Lily began hesitantly, "I've been wanting to say I'm sorry about the other night, but I've never really been that good at apologizing. It was my fault, and you were right. I have never tried to get to know you. But you never really gave me a reason to before the other night."

James tried to absorb what she was saying, but all it did was confuse him more. "So...what are you saying?"

"I guess I'm trying to say that I'll try to get to know you, and not just think of you as a jerk but...as a friend." Lily said sincerely.

James was shocked. She was admitting she was wrong (to an extent), and saying she would try to consider him a friend. He had no clue what to say to that! He stood up and walked over to the Christmas tree in the corner and picked up a small parcel. He handed it to her as he sat back down. Lily looked at him questioningly so he nodded at her and said,

"Go on, open it."

She removed the paper to reveal a box. She glanced up at James and her hands shook slightly as she lifted the lid. Inside was a silver necklace with a lily that was pink with white edges (a/n- i think they are called stargazing lilies). She looked up at James again as she removed it from the box. She opened her mouth to say something several times, but nothing ever came out. He stood up and took the necklace from her and fastened it around her neck. Once he sat down again, Lily came out of her daze,

"James...I---"

The door banged open and Sirius came bounding out.

"Merry Christmas Lily." Sirius said in a sing-song voice.

Lily tore her eyes away from James and replied slightly breathless, "Merry Christmas."

Soon everyone else had emerged from their rooms as well.

"Presents!" Sirius yelled as he headed for the pile under the tree. "Shall I hand them out then?"

He didn't wait for an answer as he began gathering up the gifts and distributing them.

"Lily, I was hoping you would sit over here with us." Hermione called from the couch that her and Ginny were seated on.

"Ok, I'll be right there." Lily yelled back. She looked at James again. "Thank you," she said softly, before standing and walking over to Hermione and Ginny.

Harry sat in the chair next to James and Sirius settled himself in Lily's vacated chair. They all began opening their gifts but Hermione stopped them.

"Your supposed to go all around, each person opening one at a time and then it's the next person's turn!" Hermione said indignantly.

"I'll go first!" Sirius volunteered, ripping the paper off his gift from Harry. His face spread into a huge grin as he looked at Harry. "These are AMAZING, where did you get them? We didn't see anything like this at Zonko's!"

"Ron's brothers own a joke shop and I mail ordered them from there." Harry said laughing as Sirius was looking over the Canary Creams, Skiving Snackbox, Ton-Tongue Toffees, and an assortment of other pranking items.

"I'll go next," Ron said hurriedly as he opened his gift from Hermione which was a set of Chudley Cannon tickets.

Ginny was the next in line to open a present. She picked up the parcel from Harry and tore off the paper, inside was a charm bracelet with her name on it.

Lily also opened her gift from Harry, which was also a bracelet, but not the same.

Hermione picked up her gift from Lily, and Lily stopped her,

"You and Ginny have to open yours at the same time."

They shrugged and both opened their gifts from Lily. She had gotten them 'best buds' necklaces and charmed them so that a picture that they took in Hogsmeade was on them.

"I've never had friends that I was really close to, but I already feel close to both of you." Lily said as she was hugged from both sides.

It was Remus's turn, he opened Harry's gift and discovered it was a potions book. He looked at Harry questioningly.

"I thought you might want to have Wolfsbane potion from this time." Harry said simply.

Remus went wide-eyed as did all of the other Marauders.

"You know?" Remus asked shakily.

Harry nodded.

"And...you don't care." Remus asked carefully.

"Of course not." Harry said honestly.

James looked up, "Of course he wouldn't care Remus. He's my son, he knows your not bad. He grew up with you."

Harry leaned over to Remus and said in an undertone, "The full moon is in a week, and in this time we have a potion called Wolfsbane, and it's makes you safe to be around people. So if you take this up until the full moon, you can just stay in here instead of the Shrieking Shack."

Remus stared at him numbly. I don't believe it. He doesn't care that I am a werewolf. He's not scared like most people are. Well, he is James's son.

Peter was surprised when he saw that Harry got him something too. It was a large box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. Of course, he didn't know that Harry really didn't want to get him anything besides a good kick. He had to under Hermione's nagging of, 'It will be suspicious if you don't!'

James opened Harry's gift also, it was a broomstick called the Firebolt. He had never seen a better looking broomstick in his life. "It's wonderful!" he breathed.

Harry grinned, "I thought you might like it. And there's another bit to it."

James looked up at Harry curiously.

"Well I'm the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain, and we have an open spot for a chaser, I was kind of wondering if you would be interested..." Harry trailed off.

James face lit up with excitement, "That had better not be a joke!"

"It's not." Harry said grinning. "So, would you be interested?"

"YEA!" James yelled. They all laughed. James stood up and motioned to Sirius and Remus to stand as well. Harry looked curiously at them as they gathered around him.

"It is our honor to bequeath to you our greatest gift," James began in a loud voice as he handed Harry a book, "Our knowledge and sparkling personalities! In that you will find a record of every prank we have ever pulled and exactly how we did it! Written by yours truly." He finished gesturing to himself, Remus, and Sirius.

Harry smiled, "I will make good use of it."

They beamed at him and sat back down.

The rest of the presents were opened and the wrappings littered the floor.

"Lets go get some breakfast shall we?" Remus asked stretching as he stood. The others followed suit and were making their way to the portrait hole.

"Would you guys mind if we stopped by the Kitchens? I still have to give Dobby his present." Harry asked as he ran upstairs to get it. Once he had returned they made their way out into the corridor.

"Thanks for the broom servicing kit, Lily." James said in her ear.

"I guess you'll get to use it sooner than I thought." Lily said smiling.

"Yea, I'm really excited." James said smiling as well.

"Harry is Quidditch Captain...guess you rubbed off on him there." Lily said nicely.

"Is it that terrible?" James said grinning.

Lily turned her head to look at him and blushed as she said, "No...not terrible at all."

James's grin faltered a bit. What does that mean?

"James, will you get up here!" Sirius yelled irritatedly.

James glanced up to Sirius and then back at Lily, "Well I'd better go before Sirius wets himself."

Lily laughed and he walked up to see what Sirius wanted.

"Why do I get the feeling that something's going on with you two?" Ginny whispered in her ear.

"I don't know what you mean." Lily said.

"Uh-huh, sure." Ginny said rolling her eyes. Her attention was suddenly drawn to the necklace on Lily. "Oh, wow Lily! Where did you get that?"

Lily couldn't hold back her smile as she looked up at James's back. Ginny followed her gaze.

"Yea, sure, there is nothing going on, huh?" Ginny said grinning.

Lily flushed scarlet, "Nothing is going on...yet."

Ginny laughed, "Looks like it's well underway though!"

They entered the Kitchens and Dobby came over at once.

"Merry Christmas Harry Potter, sir." he squealed.

"Merry Christmas Dobby." Harry replied as he handed Dobby his gift.

"He's friends with the house-elfs?" Sirius asked uncertainly.

"Yea, since second year, when Harry helped set Dobby free." Hermione said simply.

Dobby's eyes swelled with tears as he clutched his new pair of socks, "You is too good to Dobby, sir."

"Nonsense Dobby! After how many times you have saved my life." Harry said as Dobby gave him his gift as well.

"Can I get anything for you, Sirs and Misses?" Dobby asked looking around at them all.

"No, we were just on our way up to breakfast." Hermione answered.

"You saved Harry's life?" Remus questioned interestedly.

"Dobby wouldn't say that, sir. Not after what Harry Potter has done for my kind sir. He has given hope to the lowly and enslaved. His greatness is known..."

"Dobby, that's a load of rubbish." Harry said quickly, "We should be going now."

"Harry Potter is modest, sir." Dobby continued to tell them before Harry could shut him up, "He speaks not of his triumphs over He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."

"You've faced Voldemort?" James looked at Harry astonished.

Harry was opening and closing his mouth looking around rapidly as to find the quickest way out.

"Many times, sir." Dobby chimed in. "He---"

"Dobby that's enough!" Harry said sharply. The elf's ears drooped. "We must be going."

With that he ushered everyone out and walked quickly towards the Great Hall.

A/N- Ok I wasn't planning on writing at the end of this but...I dunno, this chapter didn't really turn out how I wanted it to. Let me know if you think it suxs and I'll rewrite it.