Has anyone heard Adele's new song, 'Hello'? I listened to that whilst editing this chapter, and when the sneak peek was released a few days go, tumblr went nuts. I wholeheartedly agree with the idea that once her album actually drops that everyone else might as well pack their bags and hope for next year for the Grammy's. Since we all know that she dun win.

Anyways, I got a couple requests to update, and (daniiibabiii, who made me smile with her review XD) really wanted to get the other's reactions to Hermione's animagus form, and to find out Draco's. (How lucky are you guys? Three updates in less than 24 hours)

MissesE: THANK YOU, LOVIE. I always love to see your reviews. (I love to see reviews on a whole). In terms of Hermione's animagus being a fox, and it being special, I guess it's not really 'special' per say, but that everyone was looking forward to the boy's reactions. I don't think you missed anything ;)

I really hope their reactions live up to your expectations. I'm probably not going to update for at least another week for FTT, but look out for It Was Her Ginger Hair (IWHGH), and maybe Time Travel? Piece of Cake (TTPOC).

I forgot to mention my lovely beta on the last two chapter (prattster666) HIIII LOVE! I'm being sneaky and posting this chapter without her knowing, (shhh don't tell). In all seriousness though, I hope you guys and especially her like this chapter!

The next time you hear from me on this story it will be Narcissa and Lucius' Wedding! Which I hope you're all excited about.

Oh I just remembered (Indieblue from about an hour into the future after posting this chapter). If anyone has a specific person they want to be in the next look into the future, I'm completely open to suggestions. I have it kind of planned out, but I think I need another little scene maybe.

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Full moon

July 22nd, 1973

Chocolate. That was the first word that ran through her mind as she woke up in the middle of the night. Earlier Remus had been missing all day, and she frowned upon learning that he was feeling poorly. Hermione, Draco, James, Sirius and Peter had kept her so busy all day however, that until now it hadn't crossed her mind again. Chocolate automatically made her think of him, since he was always sneakily nicking chocolate from his friends if he could.

Slughorn informed her at the end of the previous school year, that he was going to pair the two of them in Potions permanently from now on. "Mister Lupin is going to need all the help he can get," Slughorn had sighed.

Lily sat up and looked to her right, the moonlight was shining brightly through her open windows, casting long shadows on the floor. She slowly threw her sheets back off of her, and gingerly placed one foot on the cool wooden floor. This house is so beautiful, it must have been amazing growing up here. No wonder Mione, Dray and...James are so happy. Well except those times Mione gets all quiet and reclusive.

Adjusting the strap of her thin, cotton pale blue nightgown, she headed in the direction of her door. When she reached it she carefully turned the brass knob and exiting her room silently; checking both ways to see that the coast was clear.

In front of her however, both hurriedly descending the stairs, was Hermione and Draco. Hermione's royal purple nightgown barely brushed her knees, it was flowing behind her as she moved, and Draco was wearing dark green pyjama pants and a thin, black vest.

Where are they going in such a hurry? I doubt they have a chocolate craving. Lily's sense of adventure struck and she quietly began to follow the Potter twins. Ahead of her she watched Draco pull Hermione into his side, ruffle her hair and then push her away playfully; Hermione turned her head to stick her tongue out at Draco, and she began to sprint away from him. Lily heard muted curses and then Draco followed Hermione, and then raced up another set of stairs. They were headed in the direction of the library, Hermione finally got around to showing her it today.

What are they doing? Lily had forgotten all about her chocolate craving at this point, and was focused intently on figuring out why her friends were sneaking around their house at minutes past midnight. Lily hadn't noticed that they had placed silencing charms on their feet, otherwise their running would've echoed throughout the Manor.

When Lily finally caught up to them, she pressed her ear to the library door, but nothing. It was perfectly silent. Silencing charms are quite advanced...though Mione and Dray seem to just breeze through all of our classes. Especially Charms and Transfiguration for Mione. Draco is a potions genius, but whenever we're making potions in school he always makes little mistakes, purposefully sabotaging his own work...why?

I could try cracking open the door, but then they'll probably notice me...darn. I guess chocolate is all I'm going to get tonight, Lily sighed dejectedly, her shoulders slumping as she moved away from the library. She froze at the top of the stairs when a lonely howl pierced through her. Behind her was a large window, and when she looked over her shoulder, the moon was all she seemed to see. So cold, so lonely. Shuddering slightly Lily jumped on the banister, and carefully slid down. Wincing when she landed on the ground floor a teeny but louder than intended. Although, she continued in her mission for some dark chocolate quite joyously.

Back in the Library, Hermione was pouting sitting on one of the armchairs with her arms crossed over her chest. Draco was bent-double laughing his arse off.

"Oh a fox, ooo foxy lady. Now you literally can't get upset with Sirius when he calls you that. Cause it's true!" Draco guffawed.

"Keep laughing, yea, yea, I hope you choke," Hermione scowled.

"Now, now, no need for that is there?" Draco asked in a breathy tone, short bursts of laughter still erupting out of him.

"It's not that funny," Hermione said quietly, looking away from him, still sulking.

"It's not that it's that funny, it's just how you neglected to mention it, since you knew that the jokes were going to just keep coming once you told us."

"Yea? Well what's yours?" Hermione glared pointedly at him.

"Uhhh," Draco rubbed the back of his neck and then muttered something so Hermione couldn't hear him.

"You want to repeat that?" Hermione arched a brow, sitting up a little straighter. Now the shoe is on the other foot, she mused in amusement.

Draco repeated himself, a fraction higher, but still low enough that Hermione could barely discern what he said.

"A dog?" Hermione threw out a guess. Draco sighed in exasperation, covering his face with his hands and dragging them tiredly down his face.

"A wolf," Draco snarled, sitting on the ground in a huff.

"A wolf?" Hermione repeated, failing miserably to hide her smile.

"Oh hush," Draco groaned, falling backwards onto the ground.

"See everyone keeps talking about me and Moony, but maybe they should be talking about you and Moony. You're so in love with him that you became a wolf," Hermione cooed, hopping off of her seat, and strolling over to him. She crouched down by his head, and Draco immediately turned away from her with a blush.

"What?" Hermione pursed her lips, brow drawn together.

"I can see your panties," Draco angled his head back at her, looking her straight in the eye. A slow grin growing on his face as her face flushed bright red.

"Draco!" Hermione exclaimed, falling backwards onto her bum, and then laying her legs flat, tucking her skirt under her. Draco started lazily tracing a pattern on her left leg since it was closer to him, and Hermione watched him, an abundance of nerves and butterflies. It was a weird feeling, goosebumps rose on her arms, and her heart was practically beating out of her chest.

Then through the window came a sharp howl. Remus.

"Moony," Draco whispered lowly, halting his fingers movement.

"Moony," Hermione reiterated sadly.

"James and Sirius are going to notice we're gone soon," Draco stated, his expression stoic as he stood up, offering a hand to Hermione who gratefully took it. As they made their way to leave, Hermione lagged behind slightly. Her eyes locked on his raven locks that had gotten quite long, and like James' it now stuck up in the back. Hermione had no idea how she felt anymore, on one hand she had intense feelings for Draco, but she knew that neither of them were ready yet. On the other hand though, there was Remus. Moony. I think I may be starting to fall for Moony. Hermione recalled the moment in the pool the other day, and it sent her emotions into a tizzy. I'm not getting any sleep tonight.

...

July 25th, 1973

Potter Manor

Hermione's Bedroom

"A fox?" James asked in clarification. This was the second time he made her repeat herself.

"Yes, James. A fox," Draco rolled his eyes. Remus, Lily and Peter were out in the gardens; the others having said that they would catch up in a bit. Remus had given them all a suspicious look, but left anyways.

"I'm more interested in Dray being a wolf," Sirius wriggled his eyebrows. "You going to make little wolf babies with Moony?" Sirius ducked when Draco threw the book in his lap at Sirius, who ducked. Hermione's eyes widened as she dove and caught the thin book in her hands.

"It's ok. It's alright. I've got it," Hermione sat up, cross-legged, holding the book up like a trophy.

"Sorry bout that," Draco grimaced.

"Well now we need new nicknames for you guys," James declared.

"If you call me anything besides my given name or Mione, I will hurt you," Hermione smiled sweetly, leaning to put book on the bookshelf behind her. She sat there, blinking her eyes at all of them innocently. Draco flinched when she looked at him. He'd been on the other end of her wand, and he was not going to put himself in a position to get hexed if he didn't need to be.

"Why not? Foxy or Vixen would be kind of cool-" Sirius started before Hermione narrowed her eyes. Oh no. Draco felt for his best mate in that moment, when what appeared to be a rather strong and painful stinging hex was sent Sirius' way. "What the-?" Sirius jumped up in the air, holding his hand; she had aimed for his arm apparently. Hermione tucked her wand back into her skirt pocket and was the vision of innocence when they all turned to face at her.

"I think it'd be weird calling you anything but Mione anyways," James said carefully, a large grin on his face. "Dray on the other hand..." James trailed off.

"What about Fido?" Sirius joked, remembering the name of one if the dogs in the picture books Hermione had gotten him.

"Call me Fido and I'll kill you," Draco rolled his eyes. Well not kill, maim maybe, but never kill. I like you too much, Draco thought to himself.

There were a few minutes where they all just sat for the most part in silence, brainstorming. Occasionally throwing out a name only for it to be shot down. Finally James' eyes widened and an excited smile appeared on his face, "Paws!"

"Paws, really?" Draco drawled in a bored tone. "Well...it's not horrible," he conceded and James was ecstatic that his name was the one Draco tolerated enough to be chosen as acceptable.

"Paws it is then," Sirius smirked, sitting down next to Hermione and laying his head in her lap.

"Hey, Siri," Hermione laughed lightly, stroking his hair.

"Evans is now Lilypad, Dray is Paws, Mione is Mione," Sirius listed the nicknames that they had come up with in the last couple days. "Oh, and Remus is Moony."

"Don't forget you'll have your own nicknames once you both find out your animagus forms as well," Hermione reminded him.

"I hope I'm something cool," Sirius stroked his chin thoughtfully, a dreamy expression on his face.

The grim? A massive black dog? An omen of death? Sounds pretty alright to me, Draco smiled secretly to himself. He won't find out exactly what he is for a while yet, but it's still cool.

"Mione is a fox, and Paws is a wolf, we may laugh make jokes every now and then from here on out, but you gotta admit their animagi forms are pretty spiffy." James said in awe.

"Thank you, Jamie," Hermione said merrily, cutting eyes at Draco.

"We should probably go outside and join the others. We did say we were going to be right there," James pointed out.

"It's killing you inside that you can't use magic outside of school innit?" Draco teased his brother.

"Why do say that, Paws?" Sirius twisted to look at Draco, craning his neck, already comfortable with using the new nickname.

"Cause now he can't charm Lily's shoes to sprout Lilies wherever she walks," Hermione said gleefully, a playful twinkle in her eye.

"That was one time," James defended himself, trying not to smile. He was quite proud of that, it had been a difficult charm to master; it had taken more than a few sleepless nights to perfect it.

"Speaking of pranks," Sirius began and Draco instantly knew where this was going, a broad grin on his face. "What are we going to do this year? Minnie's bound to be missing us. We should do something for her when the school year starts."

"Sounds good to me, maybe Moony has some ideas?" James threw out.

"Start the school year with a bang," Sirius murmured pensively, his brow drawn together.

The Weasley twins certainly left with a bang in Fifth year, interrupted our History of Magic exam and everything.

"I've got it!" Sirius pumped his fist into the air, eyes alight with mischief.

"Well let's hear it then," Hermione urged, thrilled at the concept of a new prank.

"So here's what we're going to do..." Sirius animatedly informed them of his idea. This is going to be one hell of a year.

...

July 27th, 1973

Potter manor

Gardens

They found a chance later to tell Peter what they're animagi forms were, and he had stuttered out his congratulations, "That's amazing, I'm so happy for you both." They also found an opportunity to pitch their idea to kick their pranking year off to Remus; he immediately got into planning mode.

There was this assumption amongst their fellow Housemates that Sirius and James were the ones who came up and carried out most of their pranks, with help from the others. What they didn't know was that Remus took it upon himself to actually make sure they could execute said plans. Hermione was becoming more involved with their pranks with every passing day and her boys loved it. For this particular one, Hermione, Remus and Sirius had stayed up late the night before, discussing locations and how they were going to pull it off. Using their still incomplete map of Hogwarts as reference. James, Draco, and Peter had kept Lily company for the majority of the evening. James and Draco were showing off their flying skills and Peter was on the ground with Lily.

Lily was growing quite fond of the small boy, his meek and kind nature was quite endearing. The redhead would never admit it, but as she followed James Potter with her eyes, her face grew warmer, her heart quickened a little and her toes curled in happiness. James Potter was a goofy, arrogant little toe rag, but he was also kind and thoughtful. I think I'm going mental.

Today however they were about to engage in a game of Broom Tag. Hermione, Sirius, James, Draco and Remus were playing, Peter insisted that he didn't want to leave Lily all by herself, and that he would stay with her on the ground.

The Marauders were about thirty feet up in the air hovering in a circle, discussing who was going to be 'it' first.

"We're never going to be able to decide at this rate," Remus stated, letting go of his broom and crossing his arms over his chest. He wasn't as into Quidditch as the others, but he did enjoy flying, (it was the only thing he and his Dad had in common).

"Fine, I'll be it first," Hermione offered, rolling her eyes.

"Sure 'bout that, Mione? You've only been flying for a couple weeks now." James reminded her with a worried expression.

"I'll do it," Draco declared, and Hermione frowned at that but decided not to make a fuss. They did have a good point. She had only been flying for a couple weeks. Quite well if I do say so myself.

"Let's see if you're as fast as you say you are," Sirius challenged Draco, and the dark grin that crossed Draco's face was something to behold.

"Want to make a bet?" Draco asked in a dangerously calm tone.

"Always," Sirius grinned back, grabbing the scrunchie from around his wrist and tying his hair back in a high ponytail.

"Six galleons that I catch you under two minutes," Draco declared boldly.

"Seven galleons that you don't catch me for at least four," Sirius retorted a bit hotly.

"Are you serious?" Hermione let the phrase slip, groaning when Sirius' face lit up like a Christmas tree.

Sirius swivelled in Hermione's direction, and in a hushed tone, emphasizing every syllable he responded, "I'm always Sirius." As soon as the words fell from his lips, he leaned backwards and went hurtling towards the ground. "GO!"

Sneak. Draco smirked crookedly as he set out after Sirius. Hermione, James and Remus, unsure what to do, shrugged and followed them. Sirius quickly pulled up, feet away from the ground and zipped towards the orchard.

Lily and Peter felt the five Marauders zoom past them, the air whipping their hair back from their faces. Sirius was laughing manically and the sound travelled throughout the gardens. Draco grimaced as Sirius ducked and wove between the trees. They had taken a turn into part of the Orchards where the trees were quite clumped together; making manoeuvring through it a pain. I've been flying for longer than he's been alive, Draco scowled internally, he is not going to win this bet.

A memory hit him hard and he started flying on auto-pilot, speeding up as he did.

"Lucius he is two and a half!" Narcissa bent down and plucked the broom out of Draco's tiny hand. The pale haired boy set up his face, stomping his foot petulantly and whined, "Mumma no! That broom is mine. Mumma! Mumma!"

"I think you ought to return Draco's gift to him, Cissa," Lucius smirked smugly, a haughty expression on his face. Narcissa walked up to him and grabbed his chin roughly.

"If he falls off, I will hex you black and blue. Do not test me, Lucius," Narcissa snarled. "He can't always get everything he wants anyways."

Narcissa crouched down beside her son, who was looking between her and the broom with suspicious grey eyes. Narcissa had paused for a moment, a nostalgic expression on her face, before shaking her head. With a small smile, she held the broom out to her son, "Mummy will let you have the broom, if you promise to let her teach you how to use it."

"Why are you going to be the one to teach him?" Lucius pouted.

"I was the Seeker for the Slytherin Quidditch team for how many years, love? How many years did we win the Quidditch Cup?" Narcissa smiled knowingly at her husband.

"You were on the team for three years, Cissa. From fifth year to Seventh. I fail to recall when you won the cup though," Lucius stroked his chin as if trying to recall to surface the information that he already knew.

"All three, then after I left those Gryffindors dominated, it was because of the Potters," Narcissa's mouth twisted to the side, as she slowly turned her head to her son, a deep frown marring her features.

"Broom, Mumma," Draco clapped his hands together giddily.

"Yes, Draco. We're going to go flying," Narcissa said slowly. Whatever had bothered her mere moments ago fled her mind as quickly as it had come.

"DRACO!" Hermione voice jolted him from his memory, and he saw that if he didn't act right away, he was going to slam into a tree. Doing a barrel roll instinctively, he saw Sirius out of the corner of his eye and ducked left. Leaning forward, willing his broom to go faster, he reached out, his fingers straining, almost there. Closer, just a little closer. He was lying across his broom when he nudged himself forward an inch, and in a burst of effort, grabbed onto Sirius' shirt tail.

"Dammit!" Sirius grumbled, pulling up so that he started slowed down, Draco gave him a triumphant look. "That was only about a minute."

"Cough up my money," Draco sneered playfully.

"You see...I keep my galleons in my other trousers," Sirius avoided eye contact, scratching his head.

"Black," Draco snarled.

"Fine, fine. I'll give you your six galleons when we get back to the house."

Hermione, Remus and James had abandoned them to race upwards into the clouds, and they heard a loud cry of triumph above them.

"Seven galleons, mate," Draco said smugly.

"Watch out!" Hermione yelled as she sped towards them, laughing like a madwoman as she flew past them, how fast she was going actually audible. Wow. To imagine a couple weeks ago she used to be scared of flying, now she can't get enough of it, Draco smiled tenderly.

"I'm hungry, anyone up for heading back?" Sirius asked, rubbing his stomach. James and Remus had just joined them and upon hearing his question, both boys second the notion.

"I'll go get, Mione," Remus smiled, fondly shaking his head as he aimed his broom down.

"Let's start to head back," James said, beckoning his brother and best mate as he kicked off of a nearby tree, flying back the way they came; this time above the tree line.

I wonder how I even remembered that, as a matter of fact, that's right. Cissa was on the Slytherin Quidditch team. She was the Seeker, Hermione was so excited when she found out. Draco made up his mind then and there. This school year he was going to become the Gryffindor Seeker. Who's the Quidditch Captain for Gryffindor again...that's right, Gids. I think Thomas is on the team as well. Gideon is a Beater, and Thomas is a Chaser. Jamie is going to become a Chaser at some point, if I become the Seeker then it's just a question of who is going to be the other Beater, and other Chaser. This year is going to be amazing, I'm going to get to play Quidditch again.

There were one or two hints in this chapter, and I would love to hear if you picked up on them. I hope it doesn't seem so unbelievable that Hermione enjoys flying so much now. I think it's important to showcase how she's changing. Draco is changing slowly but surely as well. I quite enjoyed writing this chapter, and I'd like to think that Lily and Remus share a love of all kinds of chocolate together.

Thank you all so, so much again. I still can't believe we have 243 followers on this story last I checked, freakin' insane. I can't believe how many of you like my writing.

LOVE YOU,

Indieblue xx

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