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Disclaimer: I'm not sure whether I have to do this for every chapter but I think I should state once again how painstakingly obvious it is that I do not own Harry Potter
Lily stared at the wall for a few minutes before it clicked. This must be like the wall in Diagon Alley through which she had gone through many times. She took out her wand and started tapping bricks randomly. She was on her 27th try when she tapped a brick in the left hand corner of the wall.
The brick suddenly shook and disintegrated and then the whole wall disappeared. She ran out of the passageway noticing the wall reappearing behind her and then she realised where she was. The passage opened out onto the grounds of Hogwarts and she saw Sirius and James walking into the distance.
She ran to catch up with them and reached them just as they approached the thrashing figure of the Whomping Willow. Right before her eyes as she watched both figure seemed to melt into shapeless blobs and then reform as something entirely different.
'I knew it' she whispered to herself and watched with awe as the stag and dog bounded across the lawn in what looked like glee. She knew this was her only chance to catch them at it so in one bold motion she threw the cloak off and ran towards the prancing animals. She had researched animagi in the library and she knew James Potter and Sirius Black and even Peter Pettigrew were not registered.
That left the werewolf and one Marauder, Remus Lupin. She knew that they would all get expelled from Hogwarts when she told on them but it had to be done, Remus was dangerous and the others...well they were just stupid.
Both animals froze as they saw her running towards them and the dog whined and bounded away into the darkness. The stag however lowered its head and trotted towards her. She thought for a minute that she had made a mistake. That this wasn't James, it was just a stag which was going to run her through with it's antlers.
But then as it neared her it slowed down and looked at her with it's deep black eyes. Lily once again marvelled at it's gracefulness and beauty, uncertainly she reached out a hand and ran it over the stag's soft hide.
The stag melted again and suddenly James Potter was standing in front of her looking into her eyes with undisguised panic.
'So...' he said, 'now you know'
'Yeah,' she said a little breathlessly as her earlier dream replayed through her head, 'you're not registered you know'
James laughed at this and said 'yeah I think I know. So, are you going to grass on us?'
Lily stared at him, this blunt question completely threw her off balance and made her question herself will I tell on them? Would I really do that?
'Remus is dangerous,' she said faltering slightly, 'I have to...Dumbledore...'
'Already knows,' James said softly
Lily gasped, 'he knowingly let a werewolf into Hogwarts?!'
'Why do you think they planted the Whomping Willow here? He uses it to get into the Shrieking Shack, you know it only started being 'haunted' the year Remus came to Hogwarts' James smiled slightly at her shocked expression.
Lily had so many questions popping into her head that she wanted to ask but only one thing came out, 'so that's why you're Prongs huh?'
James threw his head back and laughed and Lily marvelled at how nice it sounded. Stop it! Then James's expression became more serious and he sat down pulling Lily down beside him. They leant back and lay side by side on the soft grass gazing at the stars.
James said 'I need to know one thing though. Will you promise not to tell on us? That's all I will ever ask you for, I need to know you won't tell. It's the only way Remus gets through his transformations. As animals we're not affected by his bites and it makes life a whole lot easier for him'
Lily turned her head so she was looking at James in the eye and whispered 'James I promise to keep all your secrets. I would never tell on you'
She was slightly surprised at the words that came out of her mouth but James seemed satisfied.
He leant over and whispered 'thank you' before covering her mouth in his. Lily gasped, his actions were so like they had been in the dream, his tongue pushed into her mouth and she tilted her head to deepen the kiss.
She blushed at the thought of what Dream James had done next but Real James was not so forward. He didn't touch her thighs but instead ran his hands up her arms and into her hair.
Both were so absorbed in their own little world that neither noticed the dog mischievously sneaking up on them. It suddenly pounced and landed right on top of them knocking the air out of them.
While lying on top of them it transformed back into Sirius and yelled 'oi lovebirds, get a room!'
All three laughed and after retrieving the invisibility cloak they snuck back into the castle and up to the Gryffindor common room where Sirius left Lily and James to say their goodnights in private.
It was now the last day of the week where James had to behave himself and Lily had done everything in her power to persuade James to prank someone or get himself in trouble with one of the teachers.
James was not so easy to fool however being himself a manipulative conniving person. He spotted whatever Lily was trying to do even before she had realised what it was.
'How is it you do that?' she shouted at him after a failed attempt to get him to prank an unsuspecting first year
'You just need more practise at this whole bad-girl thing' James said trying to contain a grin. He had seen Lily whispering to first year and guessed what she was up to so he had swept her off into a corner and told her to stop it.
'You do realise,' he continued, 'that since you are now officially my girlfriend you can share the cloak with me once I get it back'
Both of them grinned when he said the word 'girlfriend' and Lily instantly softened up. They were making out pretty heavily in the corner when the other three marauders stepped into the common room.
James and Lily instantly broke apart in order to stop the snide comments that would be thrown at them before they could get started. They were too late however Sirius had seen them.
'Lily and James sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g' he sang
They all ignored him and rolled their eyes choosing instead the mature option of rising above it. Holding hands James and Lily left for dinner.
It was nearly midnight when Lily came down from her dorm room holding the precious cloak in her hands. James sat up at the sight of it...err her. The other three marauders who were just as excited to get the cloak back all grinned.
Lily stood there waiting for the clock to chime midnight deciding to be melodramatic and hand it to him just as the last bell rang. Twelve bells later Lily stepped forward and presented the cloak to James saying 'here you are, I think you deserve after how well you've done this week'
James took it revelling in it's familiarity and grinned widely saying 'and now that the week is over let the pranking commence!'
Lily sighed, she should have known this was coming but to be honest she didn't really care. James leaned over and kissed her making her care even less and that didn't even change much when fireworks started going off in the common room or when the first years ran out of their dorm rooms screaming about exploding toilets.
Lily just smiled and held hands with James Potter, her boyfriend.
And it's done! Whew, well I guess I can start my next one now please all of you read that whenever I get around to writing it. I hope you like the ending I wanted to make it very final if you get me. Anyhoo REVIEW now please!