Thank you reviewers! Note: (this will be repeated every chapie) There are going to be some more mature things being said from now on, so if you don't understand them, you're probably not old enough to be reading a T rated story.

Ch.18, Invites and Preparations

The days passed by slowly with the exams. Soon, they were over. There was a Hogsmead day planned the day after exams. The Marauders were holding a large party (with the permission of Madame Rosemerta of course) in the Three Broomsticks. Everyone but the Slytherins planned on coming.

The morning before the party, Remus took Len aside when they were walking by the lake.

"Len, I'm not sure if you know, but Sirius isn't the only one who bought a place to live. I just got an apartment in Hogsmead, I was wondering if you would like to move in with me?" he asked, stuttering every once in a while.

He got his answer.

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A few hours before the party, Lily and Melissa were frantically searching for Len. She hadn't gotten ready yet, and she had agreed to let them do her hair. They were both dressed, but they were worried about what she would wear. It was tradition for Melissa to help the girls with things like that, but ever since Lily had started to care what James thought of her, she got in on it.

The two were debating where she could be when she walked quite calmly into the dorms. They both stared as she greeted them, and opened her small closet and took out some clothes.

"Len, where have you been? We searched everywhere for you!" Lily shouted.

"No need to get upset Lily, I was with Remus." she replied.

"And the party is in what... an hour?" Melissa said.

"Well, if you two want to know so badly, I was going to tell you anyway..." Len teased.

Melissa knew her tone of voice, but Lily didn't. "What, you didn't do it did you?" she asked.

"NO! Of course not. He asked me to move in with him. And I, of course, excepted." she explained.

Both girls shrieked. Again. Then, the girls spent the rest of the time before the party helping Len with her clothing decision. In other words, Melissa tossed things in a 'no way' pile, while Lily fished them out and put them in a 'good' pile. But then Len convinced them to let her decide what she should wear.

As the girls walked down to meet the boys, the Marauders were to involved lecturing note-taking Junior Marauders to notice that their girlfriends had come down. The girls sneaked up behind the boys, and then put their hands over their eyes.

"Okay Zach, Cody and Rob, class dismissed." James said as he turned to face his girlfriend.

Each girl was wearing muggle clothing. Lily was wearing LEVI jeans, with a form-fitting emerald green t-shirt. Len was wearing NEVADA bellbotoms, and a loose white t-shirt. Melissa was wearing LEVI bellbotoms, with a blue shirt.

Len went over to Remus and gave him a peck on the cheek. He then took her hand, and they walked over to the portrait hole. Sirius and Melissa had already left. James and Lily were walking slowly down to the village, they found that the others had waited for the party to start until they got there. Then the Marauders climbed up on the bar/counter and announced that the party may now begin. Music started playing, and people lined up to get drinks. The only reason that Madame Rosemerta had allowed the party was because she would most likely get plenty of customers. And she did. Remus came back with an iced tea for Len, James had gotten Lily a butterbeer, just as Sirius had gotten Melissa one.

After dancing for a while, Remus asked if Len would like to see the apartment. It was in Hogsmead after all, and not to far from the Three Broomsticks. Len agreed, and Remus led her to a wonderful neighborhood, and there was a small 5 story apartment building near the end of it.

As he opened the door to the 3 bedroom apartment, and Len gasped. She got the full tour of the large apartment, starting with the empty kitchen. Len would have her own bedroom. But Len secretly decided that that would not be for long.

They made their way back to the party, they found it was almost 7pm. That was bad, as all students were expected back in the school by 7:15. It took 20 minutes to get back. They just approached as the other Marauders came out.

"Moony! Moony's girlfriend! Where have you been?" Sirius asked. Melissa mouthed ' chocolate frog eating contest'. He was sugar high.

"Remus was just showing his appartment." Len explained.

"Our appartment Len. Your going to live there too." Remus said with a smile.

"Right."

James and Sirius stared at him. Well, Sirius did as much as he could.

"You asked her to move in with you and you didn't tell us?" James asked.

"I was just about to, but then the Junior Marauders asked for lessons. I didn't think it would be a good idea, in front of eleven-year olds." he explained. The group then jogged to Hogwarts, getting Len to make up a lie on the way.

"And just where, have you been? Your five minutes late!" Snubbs shouted.

"Sorry we're late sir. As you know, there was a party at The Three Broomsticks, and after the place was quite a mess. We offered to stay back and help clean up, and we did. But then we realized the time and had to leave. She was quite angry, and tried to convince us to stay and clean. But we insisted that we had to go." Len said.

"So if I call Madame Rosemerta and ask her about your story, she will confirm it?" he asked with an evil grin.

They hadn't counted on this, but Len could make up lies on the spot. "Yes sir. But I wouldn't call her right now, she was pretty angry at the mess, which I'm sure such a responsible caretaker can understand." she lied.

The flattery worked. He told them to get a move on, there were still late students. The moment they were out of earshot, the group burst out laughing.

"You called his bluff, and he fell for it!" Remus said.

"I know! That was one of my best lies yet!" Len replied.

"Okay, quick, let's get him back to the common room before he hurts someone." James said, pointing his thumb at Sirius, who was currently experimenting with putting a speed charm on himself, then bouncing up and down. They got him back to the common room, and the girls waited downstairs while the boys convinced Sirius that his head did not go through the sleeve in his pajamas. When they finally came back down, the girls challenged the boys to an exploding snap tournament.

"Ha! We'll totally slaughter you!" James announced.

"But there's only two of us and three of you!" Remus said.

"So? If your really going to slaughter us at it, it shouldn't matter whether we have one more person than you." Len said, but Remus recognized the tone of voice. She was either going to make them play with one less person, giving them the advantage. Or, they were going to have the boys admit that the girls were a challenge for them. She was good.

So the boys still played, and it ended up that the girls won. So the boys had to admit that they weren't better at Exploding Snap. The girls went to bed very satisfied.

The next day, it was officially three days of school left.

All the group members found themselves alone a lot, walking around the castle. James and Lily spent every night on little dates on the very top of the Astronomy tower. Remus and Len spent their days walking around the lake. Sirius and Melissa were seen all over the place, but mostly in the kitchens. Classes had been cancelled for seventh years, to give them a chance to say goodbye.

The day of the last day, everyone was packed. Len would officially move in with Remus after he met her parents, and after they stayed at James'. It would be around August. Melissa was going to do the same thing with Sirius. They were sitting at breakfast in the great hall when the post arrived. A ministry owl dropped a letter in Len's lap, but everyone was relieved to see that the envelope wasn't black.

Dear Miss Candel,

It is our great pleasure to inform you that you have been excepted into our two year training program. Due to complications, it will begin not on the 15th of July, but the fifth of August. After you complete this program, you will be allowed to teach at any school willing to except you. However, the enclosed form will show which classes you will be taught to teach. You may pick two. We expect your response by the first of August.

Madame Green,

Department for the Development for Future Generations,

Ministry of Magic.

Len looked happily at the letter. They all read it over her shoulder, and congratulated her.

"This calls for a celebration. I've always wanted to do this, but Moony here always talked us out of it." James said, as he took a bowl of oatmeal in his hands and tossed it at Snape with a shout of "Food Fight!"

The hall stared for a second before grabbing the nearest, sloppiest food they could find. Lily and Len both shrieked, before deciding that there was no reason that they shouldn't join. Griffindor had already won the cup at the feast last night, and they only had 'till three p.m. until the train left. So, Lily charmed a jar of jam to fly around and refill itself. After it dumped jam on people's heads of course. Lily looked over her shoulder to see Len crushing bananas in a bowl. (has anyone ever had mashed bananas? I have...) She ended up with yellow goo. She stirred some milk in, and ended up with runny yellow goo. The group watched, then put shield charms above them as Len levitated the bowl up to the chandelier, then used a tricky spell that Lily had taught her to make the bowl have a sprinkler effect on the hall. Everyone was covered in banana mush.

Melissa then came back from the kitchens, where she had gone to get something. She advised her friends to put on shield charms and bubblehead charms. She used her wand, and made spaghetti. She told them it was her mother's recipe. Then she used the same sort of sprinkler charm that Len had, and everyone was covered in stinky, sloppy noodles, and sauce.

"Melissa, remind me to do the cooking." Sirius joked, while moving his hand in front of his face. She laughed and repeated that it was her mother's recipe.

The teachers were still staring. Just as they had before the fight started. Not to mention that the top most well behaved two students had caused most of the mess with jam and bananas. That was something that the Marauders would do. But then Professor Slughorn was hit by Sirius with a large amount of the spaghetti. The teachers looked to Dumbledore to stop it, but he was just watching with a twinkle in his eye.

The group was making the best mixture yet. They were under a table, with a large bowl that was about a meter in diameter. They used oatmeal, jam, bananas, spaghetti, eggs and something Sirius found and didn't want to identify. Then, James added something from a small vial into the mix, and it turned a bubbly green, and stank even more. But the group didn't know this, because they had used bubble head charms. They put on shield charms, and then Lily and Len worked together to levitate it to the roof. Then Lily used the sprinkler charm on it, and loud shouts were heard as people were sprayed with something that smelt vaguely like skunk. But James had made sure that he saved a small cup of it, just in case they ever needed it.

After a half an hour, people started leaving to get changed and have a shower. Lily, James, Remus, and Len used the prefects bathroom, which was much less crowded than the ones in the dorms. And James gave Sirius the password so that Melissa and Sirius could use it too.

They all split up after their showers, and the Marauders had subconsciously gathered by the lake. They laughed themselves silly at the sight of a phoenix, owl and raven playing around just above the lake. Then they flew up to a tree, and started talking. James didn't like the way that they kept looking over at them. Remus and Sirius started laughing their heads off as Lily in animagus form came over to James. He started to run and it was a very strange sight. James was running frantically away from a phoenix, which was chasing him.

Unfortunately for him, Len had her trusty camcorder with her, and was following Lily, recording everything. Len was still flying, the handle of the recorder in her talons. She got an excellent tape, and it included when Lily caught up to James and then flew over to the lake with him. She then dropped him, which caused spectators to roll on the ground with laughter. James Potter, beaten by a bird!

As James surfaced, Sirius mentioned sarcastically how smart that owl was to have gotten it all on tape. James went bright red, and saw Len hovering just above him, still recording. It would be quite amusing to watch James jumping up and down, trying to reach an owl. Who was flying just above his head at all times, and still recording. Then James got smart, and summoned his broom. Len was frantically flying off, and had gotten a head start. She was in a tree with Lily, and gave her the camcorder. It was too much weight for her. She just took the tape, while Lily had the recorder. Len flew off, and Melissa blocked James broom for her. James swore as Len reached the girls' dorms, and went inside.

Later that day, the girls realized that nearly everybody was in the grounds. They went outside in human form, with the tape safely inside Len's pocket. Melissa conjured up a large movie screen, and a VCR. Lily levitated them up in the air, and watched as James looked horrified at the screen. Most of the school knew that this meant more embarrassing moments for the Marauders. Len levitated the tape up to the VCR, and put it in. In white letters across the black screen, a title flashed.

Most Embarrassing Moments for The Marauders.

Edited for the viewing pleasure of those who missed the last installment.

By: The Birds

Carnival music played as the girls had put all the year's tapes into one. It showed the incident with the dare, James and Sirius running around the common room in swimming trunks and grabbing tapes out of people's hands, and every other time Len had gotten something embarrassing on tape. There were none of Remus, which just showed that he didn't get himself into such situations. The school roared with laughter, and soon teachers came out into the grounds to see what all the noise was about. Rumor has it that even McGonnagle was seen wiping tears out of her eyes for laughing so hard.

Since the girls had conjured up the screen in daylight, everyone knew exactly who the birds were. They were heaped with praise on their work, and it seemed that James and Sirius had left. Remus was rolling on the ground where the Marauders had all gathered, and he was laughing like crazy.

All to soon the time to board the train came around. Everyone was planning to meet their partner's family in the week before going to James'. The group was having a wonderful time, but James noticed that Lily was a little downcast.

"Lil, can I talk to you for a moment outside?" James asked, gesturing towards the door.

As they got out, Lily turned to face James.

"I'm not sure if you know Lily, but I'm getting my own house. It'll be ready July 30. I was wondering if you'd like to come and live with me there?" he asked confidently.

She flung her arms around him. "I would love to James." The reason she had been downcast was because she would not be going back to her house, since Petunia had inherited it. She planned on staying at The Leaky cauldron until something came up. Now she was going to live with James. She would only have to stay in that musty old place until the house was ready.

When they got back to the compartment, they explained what had happened. Len and Melissa both shrieked, and Sirius called for food. The girls spent the rest of the day talking about how nice it would be that they would all be living with their boyfriends. Sirius and James spent the time eating, and Remus reading.

When they got out, they met up with their parents. Remus met Len's parents and vice versa. Sirius met Melissa's parents, though she didn't meet his. Lily met James' parents, and then explained that she was going over quick to her old house to pick up the last of her things.

Lily did this very quickly, and luckily Petunia and her boyfriend, Vernon, were out of the house. She took her stuff, and since she couldn't apparate with it, she called the night bus. She rode to the Leaky cauldron, and waited until it was time to go to James'.

Okay, I'm so sorry that this took so long. We have two computers at my house, and we don't have a router yet. He was using the internet, so I couldn't post anything. Please review!