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Summary: Both Lily and James's parents are going on a vacation for two weeks at the same time. Lily's family doesn't want her to be alone seeing that her sister Petunia is at a friend's house. James has his two friends Sirius and Remus staying over for the summer and James's parents don't trust the trio to be home alone. What will the parents do? Make them spend the two weeks together that's what. L/J.
Special Thanks: To LadyLupin1020, she really helps me a lot on this story and we kind of keep up each others self esteem on our stories as we write them lol, told you I was going to make this a thing like the 'Disclaimer' ...don't mind me and my craziness everyone...
Hey! Thanks for all the reviews everyone, sorry about not updating sooner. I had a bit of writers block, I was working on starting another fic. Its going to end up a L/J, but its kind of a thing on Lily's life and years at Hogwarts, it's going to go along with the 5th book pretty much though, and has been down for 2 days! Anyway on with the fic, and thanks again for the extremely nice reviews I've been getting, I'm glad you like my story, your reviews have been great. I really wish I could thank you more then just this but um I can't really, except to keep writing. Lol so THANK YOU!
Chapter 15- Kneazles Galore!
It was Friday morning. Breakfast time to be exact, and a quiet one at that. The marauders, Lily, Suffie, Lindsey, Natilda, and Jenni all sat at the end of the table closest to the Great Hall door. Everyone seemed to be taking sides. Lindsey was ignoring Sirius who was begging her to forgive him. Lily was trying to not notice James, who was staring at her. She wasn't sure why really, mostly out of embarrassment of being caught spending the night in the common room with James, a nasty rumor had already started. Suffie was talking to Remus but his mind seemed else where, she was getting a bit irritated. Natilda and Jenni looked on, feeling the bad vibes coming from the arguments.
"Er, Natilda, maybe we should split. Nothing good could come from this" Jenni said behind he hand to the black haired girl beside her.
"I'm with you on this on...I came up with a prank I was going to pull on some Slytherins anyway," She said.
"Yeah, I have to meet someone," Jenni replied and they both snuck off.
"Come on Lindsey, you don't understand!" Sirius argued.
"Understand what! The fact that you lied to me and hurt me!" Lindsey shouted back.
"It's not like that..." Sirius started as a tall boy with brown hair came over, he ruffled both Suffie's and Lily's hair with either hand, as they were sitting next to each other.
"Arg Thatz! You ruined my hair," Suffie complained and Lily laughed, while fixing her hair a bit. He put his elbows on Suffie's head. "What am I, your sister or your elbow rest!" Suffie said laughing.
"Anyway, I'm telling everyone in Gryffindor, try outs are Sunday. I want everyone on the team there too," He said.
"Great, wonderful, spectacular. Now get your elbows off my head!" Suffie yelled and swatted at him with her hand. He ignored her.
"Anyone here trying out?" Thatz said. Lindsey said she was and he nodded at her. "Good luck," he said and ruffled Suffie's hair again.
"Arg, older brothers..." She said.
"Ew, little sisters..." He replied and then walked away.
"Do you still want me to help you practice? I could help you tomorrow, I promise I'll explain what happened, just give me a chance!" Sirius begged Lindsey.
"Fine," She said giving in as she got up from the table and walked away. Sirius smiled as he ran out after her. Lily sighed and played with the food on her plate.
"I guess we could go watch the tryouts," Lily said to Suffie.
"Yeah, are you going to go watch too?" Suffie asked Remus.
"Well..." Remus said looking up at James. "You see um, my mother. She's really sick and I need to go visit her. I'm leaving after breakfast, and I'll be back Sunday night. I'll try to get there in time for the try outs though," Remus said quickly.
"But you're sick yourself!" Suffie protested.
"I'm fine, really! I'll be back Sunday," Remus said giving Suffie a kiss and getting up from the table. He said goodbye and left the Great Hall. Suffie pouted a bit.
"Hey, at least we have classes to look forward too" Lily said sarcastically "What do we have?"
"Divination!" Suffie said.
"See it's like sleeping in for an hour!" Lily said.
"Your awfully quiet James, something wrong?" Suffie said.
"No, nothing. Let's just get to class," James said and they all stood up and left.
Last class
"Okay before class is dismissed, I have a weekend project for you all," Professor Kline said. He was the teacher of Care for Magical Creatures and was good at his job and very nice.
"I'm giving you each a kneazle (AN-That's from the tiny 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' book but they don't say much about the creature so I'm going to make some stuff up.)to take care of. We have never covered this animal so it will be up to you to find you what you should know about it. I'll pair you up but I'll keep you with your own house," He said. "You'll return the kneazle's on Tuesday."
"But what do we do with them during classes?" A girl shouted out.
"If you do your research correct you'll find out" Professor Kline said. "Now to pair you up. We'll start with Gryffindor."
"How about...Radisson and DeHynton," Natilda looked furious.
"Laurence and Black," Lindsey tried not to look happy and pretend as if it was nothing, as Kerri sent her a death glare.
"Moon and Southwick," Ross Southwick was tall. He had dark brown hair that was almost black, freckles, and gray-blue eyes. He was also the seeker for the Gryffindor team.
"Evans and Potter," James smirked.
"Brooks and Norwalk," Jenni pouted a bit.
Professor Kline finished up pairing Gryffindor and then moved on to the Slytherins. He then brought out the kneazles. They looked like small cats with spotted, speckled fur. They had outsize ears and tails like a lion's. Some were normal cat colors but most of them weren't. Lily picked up a red one with orange spots.
"I will tell you one thing, they can be aggressive. Let them pick and take a liking to you not the other way around."
Lily's licked her cheek. "James can we take this one!" She pleaded.
"Sure," He replied. Suffie went up to Ross.
"So which one now..." She said. One with white fur flecked with blue walked up to them. "How cute!"
"I guess we'll take this one," Ross laughed.
Sirius went over to Lindsey who was sitting on the ground. She looked mad until a yellow furred, pink speckled kneazle jumped into her lap. Its tail brushed against her face making her laugh.
"We got this one," Sirius said.
Natilda picked up a black one with purple spots that was by her feet, while mumbling something about working with a bouncy ditz. Jenni stood next to Kerri who was deciding on a kneazle.
"I want that one," She said pointing to a pink one with white spots. She went to pick it up but it walked away.
"Well it doesn't want you, wait till one comes to us," Jenni advised. Kerri ignored her and went to grab the kneazle again but it clawed her. Kerri yelped and Jenni shook her head. An orange one with maroon spots jumped into Jenni's arms.
"We have this one," She said to Kerri who argued a bit but accepted it.
"Class dismissed!" The professor yelled out. Everyone picked up their kneazles and walked off.
James and Sirius walked into their dorms to see Remus asleep on the bed.
"Moony, wake up," James said and poked him in the shoulder. Remus sat up a bit and yawned.
"Oh, hey guys," he mumbled.
"You feeling okay?" Sirius asked.
"What do you think?" Remus said laughing slightly.
"Sorry, anyway what's the plan?" Sirius said.
"Well I got permission to skip classes all today because I didn't feel good, obviously. It was tough convincing the nurse I could sleep here and didn't need to be at the hospital wing. (whatever you call it lol...)Full moon is tomorrow, so I figured if everyone thought that I left to see my mother today my disappearance would go more unnoticed. I guess I'll spend all of tomorrow at the shrieking shack till I transform, and spend Sunday in our dorm because I'll probably be tired," Remus said.
"Sounds good, we'll all come up as soon as we can tomorrow," James said.
"I have to help Lindsey practice first," Sirius said. James looked at him sternly.
"Oh I'm sure Kerri will be thrilled with that," James said sarcastically.
"It's not my fault," Sirius protested.
"But it is Sirius! We'll get you out of it though, she just better not blab about Remus," James said.
"When are you going to tell Suffie?" Sirius asked Remus changing the subject.
"Do I have to?" Remus sighed.
"Not if you don't want to, but still I mean she is your girlfriend", James said.
"I'll tell her sometime else...eventually...later" Remus said. Out of no where a yellow and pink thing came flying into the room into Remus's arms.
"What the bloody hell is this thing!" He yelled looking at the cat like creature.
"Hey, that's me and Lindsey's kneazle," Sirius said, picking it up.
"Ksneezle?" Remus said.
"Kneazle, we all got paired up to watch one till Tuesday," James explained. Remus heard someone come running down the hall and dived over the side of the bed with the covers over his head, so he wouldn't be seen. Lindsey came running into the room.
"Stupid thing won't stay still!" She sighed "All I want to do is sleep!"
"You can keep it in here, I'll watch it," Sirius said.
"Good, I'm sure James wouldn't mind watching ours either then," Lily said quickly putting the kneazle down in the room.
"Or mine!" Suffie said dropping her kneazle in the room also.
"Wait a moment now, Suffie none of us three are partnered with you so why do we have to watch your kneazle! Go give it to Ross!" Sirius said.
"Can't find him, so uh night guys!" She said and the three girls ran off shutting the door behind them.
Saturday Morning
James, Lily, Lindsey, Sirius, and Suffie sat down at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall for breakfast. Lily, Lindsey, and Suffie were all sitting with the kneazle's in their laps.
"Sure now the kneazle's are tired. Kept us up all night!" James moaned while laying his head on the table and slightly falling asleep.
"We should really give them names, and don't complain we still had Natilda's and Jenni's kneazles in our room, we're tired too" Lily said.
"Hmmm..." Suffie said holding her kneazle up and deciding on a name. "I think I'll name it Moony! Like Remus's nickname and because it kind of is white, blue like the moon."
"Cute, Suf" Lindsey said giggling. " How about we name the three of these kneazle's by those three dimwits nicknames. Mine would be Padfoot and yours Lils, would be Prongs. Only difference is these kneazle's are more intelligent then those three," Lindsey said.
"Sounds good to me," Lily said.
"Well I feel special, I get a kneazle named after me. I'm sure Remus will be thrilled when he finds out too," Sirius said.
"Yeah, I mean who wouldn't want one of those things named after them," James said. Ross came into the Great Hall and took a seat by Suffie.
"Morning," He said.
"Oh, Good Morning," Suffie said, everyone else did the same. Ross ate some toast.
"So, do you want to go to the library and find out some information on the kneazle?" He asked Suffie.
"Sure, you guys going to come too?" Suffie asked. Everyone agreed they probably should, and headed off to the library.
"Well let's see what do we know so far?" James said to Lily. Lily looked down at her parchment.
"Not much...They were originally breed in only England. Now exported world wide. They are intelligent and independent. They can detect unsavory or suspicious characters and can be relied upon to guide its owner safely home if they are ever lost. Licenses are required for permanent ownership because their unusual appearance would attract muggles. They can interbreed with normal cats and have litters of up to eight kittens. That's pretty much so far," Lily said.
"Well that's good considering we haven't been here very long," James said.
"Do you want to call it quits and go out and practice?" Sirius said to Lindsey.
"Sure," Lindsey decided "What about Padfoot2?" (AN-hmmm...I think when I'm talking about the kneazles ill put '2' after their names to cut down on confusion. Ex. Kneazles name would be Padfoot2 and Sirius would be Padfoot.)
"Hey, it said they were intelligent and independent. Just leave it in your dorm, it'll be fine," Sirius said. They went to their dorms and got their brooms, leaving the kneazle behind.
They pushed off the ground and shot up into the air. Sirius had a quaffle.
"Okay, even though I'm a beater we can still practice. I'll keep the quaffle, all you have to do is get it if you can!" He said shot off into the sky.
"Not going to get away that easy!" Lindsey said and laughed as she chased after him. She chased him for a while till she finally got side by side with him. She grabbed the quaffle and took off.
"Hey, get back here," He yelled and followed her. She did some dives and then threw it through the middle hoop on the quidditch pitch.
"Oh I so win!" She said and did some small circles in the air.
"Doesn't count there was no keeper, so there!" Sirius laughed and threw the quaffle to her. She caught it.
"Doesn't matter, I'm just that good!" Lindsey said. Sirius flew up beside her.
"So, you still mad with me?" He asked. Lindsey frowned.
"Depends on how well you can explain yourself," She said.
"I can't tell you everything. Not now at least. But I will tell you this, Kerri found out a secret about someone and she's using it against me. The secret is about Remus and I can't let her tell everyone. It was my fault she found out and I can't let anyone else find out," Sirius said.
"I...I'm sorry I got mad at you, I didn't know," Lindsey stuttered.
"It's not your fault!" Sirius said. Lindsey gave him a one armed hug. Her other arm on the quaffle and partly on the broom stick. Sirius smirked and stole the quaffle away. He laughed and flew a bit away from her.
"Why that little double-crosser. He's lucky I don't tell everyone his secret!" Kerri mumbled.
"But I thought we didn't know the secret yet?" Sonya said.
FLASHBACK WoooOOOoooW
Kerri was walking past the dormitories with Sonya. She was about to pass the 5th years boy's dorm when she heard a voice. She nudged Sonya and put her ear to the door.
"I don't know what to tell Suffie..." Remus said.
"Just tell her you're ..." Sirius started but James stopped him.
"Don't say it out loud. I didn't have a chance to put a silencing charm on this room and we don't know who might be passing by or eavesdropping" He said.
"Chill out Prongs! No one is passing by or listening..."
"Kerri maybe we shouldn't be listening in" Sonya said in Kerri's ear.
"Shh! Oh great now I don't know what he said!" Kerri sneered at Sonya, but continued to listen. 'Maybe they'll repeat it' She thought.
"As for you Moony pal, we can just tell her your visiting your sick mother or something like that. It will be fine" Sirius assured.
END OF FLASHBACK
"We don't. Whatever it is though its big! Especially for him to be doing whatever I want! I got him wrapped around my finger and I don't even need to know the dumb secret!" Kerri said. "Remus must have some sort of disease or some weird embarrassing problem. All we know is that he's something. Won't be to hard to find out..."
"Maybe he's a vampire or werewolf!" Sonya said.
"Idiot, like Dumbledore would let one in the school," Kerri said immediately dismissing the idea. "Now to separate those two..." Kerri walked over to the box containing the quidditch balls. She opened it up and took out a bludger. Holding it tightly, she said a charm she had learned on it. It made the bludger aggressive and go after players more roughly. Her older brothers used it when they wanted to play difficulty. She released the bludger and it shot up into the sky. Kerri smirked and walked away with Sonya. It was either Lindsey or Sirius it would hit, it didn't matter to her at the moment.
"That should do the trick."
Lindsey laughed and chased after Sirius a bit more. She finally grabbed the quaffle from him easily.
"Not so easy, huh Sirius?" Lindsey said smirking. She balanced it spinning on her fingertip(AN-think basketball).
"Pure luck!" He shouted from where he was. He saw something coming towards them. "What the bloody?" He mumbled.
"Oi! Lindsey watch out!" He shouted and flew towards her. She looked at him puzzled. The bludger hit the corner of her head and she fell off her broom. Sirius was still farther away and the bludger flew right into his open arms and stomach, sending him several feet backward.
"Damn thing!" He said struggling to keep hold of it. Lindsey wasn't to far from the ground so she wasn't unconscious but her forhead was bleeding. Sirius hurriedly flew to the ground. He fell from the bludger struggling but stood up quickly. He locked the crazy ball away and ran over to Lindsey.
"Are you okay?" He said and reached up toward the cut. She flinched. "Sorry."
"It's okay, I'm fine. Just a cut, lucky I wasn't up very high at all," Lindsey said.
"I wonder how that bludger got out, they don't normally act that way though. It felt different..." Sirius pondered.
"Probably just an accident," Lindsey said. Sirius nodded.
"Let's get you to the nurse," Lindsey stood up but almost fell. Sirius caught her and she leaned on him for support as they walked.
Lily and James were surrounded by books, reading about kneazles still. The kneazle in Lily's lap snuggled into a ball, purring.
"Aw, your such a cutie! I love you Prongs2!" Lily cooed to the kneazle while petting it. James looked up at her, forgetting about the cats name. She felt his gaze on her.
"The kneazle James, not you," Lily said.
"The kneazle, oh yeah, I know. Of course!" James stumbled.
"So what do you say we get out of here and get some lunch?" James said standing up and holding out his arm. The kneazle leapt to the floor and Lily stood up.
"Gladly!" She smiled and took his arm.
Sorry if there are any errors, I had to post this fast cause I'm not allowed online at the moment! That's all for now. I wanted to write more, but I figured I'd torture you all and make you wait till the next chapter which I'll have done sooner than this one hopefully. Please review! Byez!