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Black Lilys!

The next day, Professor McGonagall handed out the schedules to the students in Gryffindor. Lily was taking Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Potions and Muggle Studies.

Unfortunately for her, James was in every single class, as was Sirius. Emmy and Alice were in all of her classes except Muggle Studies.

"Well, we better get going. Don't want to be late for Defense. I wonder who the new teacher is this year. Dumbledore didn't say did he?" Alice asked as the seventh years got up from the table.

Sirius slid an arm around her shoulders and replied,
"Dear Alice, the job is cursed. We've lost 4 teachers already. Fortunately, my wonderful cousin Andromeda has decided to take on the task. This should be interesting."

"Andromeda isn't anything like Bellatrix and Narcissa is she?"

"Heavens no. She's the good sister," Remus replied with a laugh.

"Yes, we like Andromeda and her little daughter Nymphadora. We think little Dora likes Remus," James replied making Remus blush a bit.

On the way to class, the group just happened to pass Severus Snape.

"Oi! Snivelly!" James yelled.

Lily grabbed his arm and whispered, "James, Don't! Come on or we'll be late for class. He's not worth it, honestly. Besides your Head Boy now. You can't just go around picking on people for no reason."

James shook his head, muttered "Get to class Snivelly," and let Lily lead him down the hall.

They entered the Defense classroom, to find Andromeda Tonks with her feet resting on the desk, waiting their arrival.

"SIRI!" she exclaimed when she saw her younger cousin.

"Meda hush! You're supposed to be a Professor!" Sirius said while a blush crept over his face.

"Hello Meda!" James said.

"Jamsey and Remy and Petey! Oh I'm so glad you all are in my first lesson and who are these lovely young ladies with you?"

"Oh," said James, "This is Alice Jones, Emmeline Vance and Lily Evans."

"Hello!" the three girls replied.

Andromeda beamed and grabbed Lily's hand. "Lily! I have heard so much about you from these guys. It is an honor and a pleasure to meet the young woman who can put them in their place!" Andromeda said with a laugh.

Lily blushed and replied, "Well I try you know. If someone didn't have some grasp on them, they would have blown up the castle by now!"

"Too right!" Andromeda said brightly. She turned to the class and called for them to take their seats. When everyone was settled, Andromeda explained that they would start by dueling one another. She paired them off and had them practice before calling them in pairs to the front to demonstrate.

Lily and Emmy were the first pair. They shot spells in rapid succession and ended up in a draw. Both were sporting some nasty bruises and cuts to boot.

Sirius and James were the last pair to go. Andromeda quickly realized her mistake in pairing these two. By the time they were finished with each other, they were a mess. Anytime someone said Gryffindor, James would yell, "I'M SECRETLY IN LOVE WITH THE ONE AND ONLY LILY EVANS!" In turn, James cursed Sirius to yell, "I'VE BEEN A BAD BOY! SPANK ME!" whenever someone said Hogwarts.

Remus leaned over to the ladies of Gryffindor and whispered, "Lunch should be interesting."

Lily simply smiled in reply and led the way to Transfiguration.

Luckily, for the Marauders, McGonagall lectured the entire time about N.E.W.T.s and did not say any of the words to set off James and Sirius.

At lunchtime, Lily and her friends sat at the end of the Gryffindor table and waited for the Marauders to enter the Hall. The moment they did, Lily yelled "Hey Siri! How do you like it at HOGWARTS?"

Sirius realized what Lily was going to do only a second before she did it. He turned to run, but he was not fast enough and the entire hall heard him scream, "I'VE BEEN A BAD BOY! SPANK ME!"

Sirius decided to exact revenge. He smiled at Lily and sat directly across from her. When she turned to talk to Alice, he waved his wand under the table and hit her with a nonverbal curse. Then he whispered the phrase to yell and the keyword to set it off. He leaned forward across the table and said, "Lily dear, did we have any homework?"

Lily promptly yelled, "I WANT TO HAVE JAMES POTTER'S BABY!"

The entire hall grew quiet and stared at the Gryffindor table. Lily turned red and fire flashed in her emerald eyes. "SIRIUS BLACK! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU! UNDO THIS JINX NOW!"

Sirius merely laughed and said, "I cannot Lily flower. There's no counter. It should wear off within twenty-four hours. Until then, maybe you and James should have a talk."

He winked at her and turned his attention to Remus before she could say another word. James was staring intently into his plate, trying to ignore what just happened. He had a plan to act more mature this year and try to get Lily to notice him that way. So far it had been working until his blockhead best mate went and jinxed her. He decided to try and lighten the situation.

"Evans," he said quietly, "Sorry about Padfoot. You know how he gets."

Lily glared at him for a moment, searching his face. Her gaze softened a little and she replied, "No worries. Although he did pick rather interesting phrases. Think he's trying to tell us something?"

James laughed and said, "Oh I already know how I feel. But having my baby huh? Don't you think we're a little young?"

Lily turned a tad more red and forced a laugh. Then her mind did somewhat of a double take. 'He already knows how he feels...Does that mean... No it can't... He doesn't really like me, does he? He was just trying to get under my skin...yes that's what he doing now...typical Potter.

"Lily?" Alice said waving a hand in front of Lily's face.

Lily snapped out of her train of thought and looked at Alice curiously.

"I was just saying we should head off to Professor Slughorn's class. We can't have his favorite student being late on the first day."

"Oh right. You lot coming?" Lily asked the guys.

"We'll catch up in a minute. Just wanted to ask McGonagall a question about HOGWARTS." James replied.

Sirius burst out again with "I'VE BEEN A BAD BOY! SPANK ME!" Then he added, "Yes, tell old Slughorn us Gryffindors-"

"I'M SECRETLY IN LOVE WITH THE ONE AND ONLY LILY EVANS!" James yelled.

Sirius went on, "-will be along in a moment. After we check on the homework."

"I WANT TO HAVE JAMES POTTER'S BABY!" Lily growled and left for potions.

The Gryffindors arrived in the Potions classroom with only moments to spare. Professor Slughorn greeted everyone with a smile and said, "Welcome back to Hogwarts-"

"I'VE BEEN A BAD BOY! SPANK ME!" Sirius yelled.

Professor Slughorn was thrown off for a brief second before he smiled again and said, "I see the spunk has not died out of our Gryffindors-"

"I'M SECRETLY IN LOVE WITH THE ONE AND ONLY LILY EVANS!" James screeched.

Professor Slughorn's smile faded and he said, "Now really! I don't know what you two are playing at, but I will not tolerate this behavior in my classroom. This silly game should have ended at lunch. If I hear any more outbursts the guilty party will serve detention. Now please hand in your summer homework."

Lily turned red as she promptly yelled, "I WANT TO HAVE JAMES POTTER'S BABY!"

"That's it!" Slughorn said irritably, "Lily, James and Sirius, I will see you all tonight in detention. My office, six o'clock! Really! May I get on with my lesson now?"

Lily fumed at James and Sirius as they marked the detentions on their scorecard. Lily ignored the Marauders for the rest of the afternoon, as she plotted her revenge.

Later that evening during dinner, Lily asked Alice and Emmy to cause a distraction while she carried out her plan for revenge. The girls promptly began chatting up the Marauders about Quidditch while Lily snuck in behind them. She quietly muttered an incantation under her breath and James and Sirius suddenly had pink and purple hair. The rest of the school noticed quickly and the Hall rang with laughter.

Lily smiled smugly to herself and settled down for dinner. James laughed and shook his head, but Sirius stood up and yelled to Lily, "I WILL GET YOU BACK FOR THIS LILY EVANS, IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!"

Lily laughed and stuck her tongue out at Sirius, who quickly replied, "Don't stick it out unless you intend to use it for something!"

James smacked Sirius on the back of the head as Sirius was trying to discreetly, yet obviously hint that she should use her tongue for something to do with James. Lily ignored that and soon she was headed for her detention with James and Sirius trailing behind her.

"I can't believe I got a detention because of you two!" Lily said.

Sirius replied, "I can't believe you turned our hair purple and pink!"

James laughed, "I think the color is quite fetching. I might just keep it."

"You can't be serious?" Lily said.

"No, I'm James. He's-"

"Stop right there, Potter. Those jokes were funny the first eight million times we heard them. Now they are just a bit lame," Lily said as she opened the door to Slughorn's classroom.

Slughorn was waiting for them and smiled when they entered.

"I heard that your outbursts were not merely insubordination, but rather a very interesting curse. I say, how did you come across this one?"

James had a sheepish grin on his face when he announced that he invented it in his fourth year.

Slughorn laughed and patted James on the back. "You, my boy, are rather brilliant! You must join my little Slug Club and me next month. Lily, are you going to join us this time?"

"Yes Professor. I promise I will come this time, if and only if my other duties to not interfere," Lily replied.

James took this as an opportunity to spend more time with Lily and answered, "I would be honored to come. When are you meeting?"

Slughorn clapped his hands together and said, "Very good! The first Tuesday in October at seven. In my office! Now, on with your detentions! You will need to clean out the potion cupboards. All the old ingredients must be properly disposed of. You will only have one hour. Please finish as much as you can."

Slughorn left and the three teens got on with their work. James and Sirius were throwing things at each other and Lily had to deflect them into the bin many times. An hour later, they traipsed back to the tower to begin the homework set to them.

The first week finally ended and the seventh years couldn't have been happier. They were buried under a mountain of homework and practice all week long. Late in the evening on Friday, Lily, Alice and Emmy were holed up in the privacy of Lily's personal bathroom. It was complete with a sitting room and a bathtub the size of a small pool. Hogwarts was experiencing a nasty heat wave and the girls had taken refuge by turning Lily's tub into a pool. They were discussing the finer points of the summer and some of the guys at Hogwarts. Alice told them all about Frank, most of which they already knew. Emmy revealed that she had dated three guys at the same time throughout the summer and broke up with each one before she came back to school. Lily divulged more details of her romance with Mateo.

"So Lily, exactly how far did your 'fling' with this Italiano go?" Emmy asked with a grin.

Lily blushed a bit and giggled, "Well I didn't intend for things to go as far as they did. Let's just say I got carried away in the romance in Rome. That's why I ended it completely though. We went too far too fast. If we stayed on the track we were on, I'd be married and pregnant by now!"

Emmy squealed, "LILY! You really went all the way with some strange and sexy Italian guy?"

"Yes. It was amazing. Besides, I am an adult now. If I feel like having a fling I can. In fact, there are a few guys here who may be acceptable. Of course, I'm not going to go shagging every guy that comes along, but that doesn't mean I can't have fun!"

"HERE, HERE!" cried Emmy.

Alice looked a bit horror struck and said, "But Lily... it's supposed to be special and sacred. You should really wait until you find someone who means something more to you than a fling."

"Lighten up Ali! It's the 70's! People do this sort of thing all the time! If guys can do it, why can't we? Girls deserve a little out let for pent up frustration too," Emmy explained.

Alice rolled her eyes and Lily laughed, "Emmy's right you know. And don't tell me you and Frank haven't messed around. You two have been together forever."

"Yes, but Frank and I are going to be married. What if you get pregnant or something?"

Lily shrugged, "Like I said, I'm not going to sleep around like some of the girls in this school. Anyway, I think that Diggory fellow in Hufflepuff is quite the looker. He may have to bump up a notch or two on my list."

Emmy had a gleam in her eye and said, "Pray tell Lily, who else is on this so called list?"

"Ah! If you must know, #1 is Eddie McDonald. I think Diggory will be pushed to #2, now there are a few random guys thrown in there. At the bottom of my list are two of the Marauders."

"Lily! A Marauder! Let me guess Sirius and James?" Alice said.

"Ali, you should know me better than that. James? Do you think I've gone mental? It's Remus, because he is not conceited, yet still cute and Sirius simply for his looks, rounds out at the bottom. If he were a bit less of a prat, he may move up a notch or two. James maybe would even make the list if his head weren't so gigantic! I mean he struts around here like he's king of the castle. Besides, he's not really interested in me. I'm just the only person who will turn him down. I think he and Sirius have some sort of bet. Look at the way Sirius is always nudging him! There's something going on there and until I find out what it is, James Potter does not make the list!"

Emmy and Alice exchanged a look and Emmy said, "Lily Evans! How daft are you? A bet? Be real here. James likes you! Everyone seems to know that but you! Why do you think he spent all those years showing off when you were around? He was trying to get you to notice him! He's practically in love with you Lily… and you're supposed to be top of the class."

Alice nodded in agreement throughout Emmy's rant. Lily looked back and forth between her two friends and then gave a shrug. "Well if you two are right about that then I suppose he can be on the bottom of the list. He may even move up a bit if he keeps up the way he's been acting all week. He seems to have grown up a bit!"

Little did the girls know the Marauders heard their entire conversation from inside James' private bathroom. James did a little dance when Lily proclaimed he had made her list. Even if he was at the bottom, he was still on it. The boys were shocked, however, to find out little miss innocent Evans, was not so innocent after all.

The following day, Lily was sitting by the lake with her friends, when Amos Diggory approached her and asked to speak with her. Lily gave her friends a smile and a wink and followed him a few yards away.

"Hi Amos! What can I do for you?" Lily asked.
Diggory shifted for a moment and cleared his throat,

"Well Lily. I was wondering if you would like to have a picnic with me tomorrow afternoon."

Lily contemplated for a moment before saying, "Amos, I think that would be lovely. I'll meet you in the Entrance Hall around noon."

Amos smiled and nodded and then returned to his own friends. The minute Lily got back to her group, she told them about her date.