Chapter Six: Friendships that will last
A lifetime
After every one was full the prefects led the students to their house dormitories. After climbing many stairs the now tired Gryffindors stopped in front of a portrait of a plump woman in a pink dress. Every one waited in silence.
"Password?"
"The password is music box," the prefect said clearly then she directed her attention to the first years.
"The password changes every once in a while to ensure security. You will be notified when the password changes. Make sure you memorize your password for you can't get in with out it."
With that the portrait swung open and the prefects crawled through the opening immediately followed by the students. Every one was so tired that they just went straight to bed. The following morning unable to sleep Lily woke up at five o'clock, thankful that the day was Saturday (she wanted to become familiar with the castle as best as possible before classes started). When she got out of bed she finally got a chance to inspect her new room. When she looked around she saw that none of the other occupants drew the curtains so she was able to see who she would be sharing a dorm with for the upcoming year.
She recognized Raven in the bed to her right with her long jet- black her all over her face with every part of her going in a different direction. In the bed to her left was Simone who was sleeping peacefully. Lily then directed her attention to the other two girls whom she didn't know. One girl had deep red hair with a curly/wavy look to it that went a little bit past her shoulders. Lily also saw a pair of glasses resting on the nightstand next to her bed. The last occupant of the room had shoulder length sandy blonde hair but Lily couldn't see her face since her back was to Lily. After brushing her teeth and showering she went down stairs to get a better look at the common room. As she looked around the common room she saw that no one else was awake. The entire common room was draped in Gryffindor colors (scarlet & gold if you didn't know).
The room was quite large it was filled with comfortable scarlet couches, chairs, love seats, and many large pillows. There were small tables scattered here and there, scarlet and gold curtains hanging from the windows, and a warm fire coming from the large fireplace. Above the fireplace was a large Gryffindor flag and a portrait of Godric Gryffindor himself. After looking around the entire common room Lily stepped out of the portrait Lily went down the many stair cases down to the first floor and out onto the grounds. When she was done examining the grounds she went into the great hall only to see that it too was empty. She was also surprised to see breakfast appear. After having breakfast she continued on with her exploring. By ten o' clock she made a thorough trip around the castle. During her trip she learned quite a few secret passages, she learned the pattern at which the staircases moved, she was familiar with every classroom, she visited the library and got a good look at the quidditch field. When Lily made it back to the dormitory room she was immediately greeted with yells mostly coming from Raven.
"Oh my God thank God that your here, where have you been? What have you been doing do you know that we were all worried sick just thinking about what could have happened to you!?! I was just about to go get James. Oh you have a lot of explaining to do, well? What do you have to say for yoursel- "?
"Raven will you shut up so that Lily could talk?" Simone interrupted quite calmly.
"Okay Lily please tell us where you have been" Simone said.
"Raven will you shut up so that Lily could talk?" Simone interrupted quite calmly.
"Okay Lily please tell us where you have been" Simone said.
"Well I couldn't sleep so I got up and went exploring around the castle then I had breakfast and I explored the grounds. I am sorry to make you guys worry and what do you mean you were going to get James what does that retard have anything to do anything."
This last part Lily spat out. Raven then answered
"Well I just figured that he would pull what he did on the train when you disappeared"
"And what would that be"
Raven scoffed " Lily please tell me you know why James had that bloodied up nose"
After seeing Lily's clueless expression Raven continued.
"Well after we went looking for you we walked by a compartment with Luscious and his sorry excuse for a crew were talking about witches with muggle parents. And James heard him and sort of went boxer on him."
This last part she said slowly making sure that it sunk in.
"Wow did he really do that?"
"Yeah he did " Simone replied.
"Wait, you knew!?!"
"Of course, she told me this morning."
"Well that was pretty nice of him I guess I should go say thank you "
With that Lily slowly walked out of the room unable to believe that James Potter had done something nice for her.
"I don't get it. Why is it such a big deal that James did something nice for her."
The girl who had the sandy blonde hair asked. At that moment every one realized that that the two girls weren't introduced. The one with the deep red wavy hair was named Tricia Jiacomin. The one with the sandy blonde hair was Brynn. After they got acquainted with each other. Brynn reasked her question.
"Yeah what's up with them."? Tricia asked
It was then that Raven explained the whole feud between Lily and James.
"You see it all started the day we moved into our home, which conveniently right next door to hers. Well anyway the day we moved in was the day that Lily and her family were moving into theirs. Well at that time we had all just turned three, and when Lily came over to our house to introduce herself James had rigged a bucket of water and it fell all over Lily and it wasn't good since there were some very strong wind that day so to make a long story short. That day Lily got a bad case of the flu and ever since then they have getting each other back."
"Wait a minute you said they have been getting each other back, what did Lily do to get him back?" Brynn asked. Simone was just silently listening to them.
"Well a few weeks later Lily saw him in the park and snuck up behind him and pulled down his pants, but the thing is she accidentally pulled down his underwear too and yeah that made him really mad and embarrassed."
After a few minutes of silence each girl was getting ready. Simone finally spoke up.
"You know what's gonna happen right?"
"No what?" The other three girls answered.
"Those other two are gonna end up together."
After a few second the other girls slowly started to agree.
"Yep I can see it now" Tricia answered.
"Yeah so can I" Brynn said.
"Me too" said Raven.
"Well what are we doing up here still something is obviously happening because Lily should have been back"
As the girls opened the door to their dormitory they heard glass breaking. At that sound the girls rushed down stairs to see what was going on. They were the only one in there. Everyone else was either at lunch, exploring, or outside. (It was now 12:30) When the girl's made it down to the common room they wanted to do nothing but laugh at the scene in front of them. They found Sirius, Remus, and Peter taking cover behind a couch while James was trying to find something to hide behind. Lily who had marshmallow gunk in her hair and chicken feathers growing out of her was throwing pillows at him and soon she started chasing after him with the leg of a chair in her hand. While she was doing this she was cursing him out and every thing about him.
After the girls picked themselves up off the floor from laughing, they tried to stop Lily from killing James.
For the rest of the day the girls kept Lily as far away from James as possible and they spent most of their time exploring the castle. Unfortunately the group had to move from Lily to James and had to make to sure that they never mentioned one to the other. But through all of this everyone was getting closer until they were practically inseparable. (Except for the whole Lily and James situation.) One afternoon while the group was lounging in the busy common room the boys got into a heated conversation about which two quidditch teams would be making it to the next world cup. Raven who was also a quidditch fanatic was soon involved in the heated conversation.
Later on that evening after dinner the soon to be marauders were in their dormitory planning their ultimate aid in the pranks that will be pulled in the seven years that they would be at Hogwarts. After two hours of brainstorming the boys decided that they would be making map. After another hour of debating they went with Remus' idea. They were to call it the "Marauders Map". Around three o'clock in the morning the boys laid in their bed tired from all the thinking they had just done. Remus unable to figure anything else to talk about he spoke the first thing that came to his head.
Frank Longbottom is what one could consider regular height for an eleven- year-old boy. He has soft brown hair and baby blue eyes. He also liked to be behind the scenes of things. He was the quiet type and liked to listen to music he basically was a Remus but a bit more controlled.
Warren Smith had beautiful hazel eyes that have a sort of clear effect to them. He had soft hair. And was slightly taller than the rest of the boys in the dorm. He loved to laugh and was always joking around with everybody.
Now back to your regularly scheduled story
now back to your regularly scheduled story
"So go on Remus what do you mean?" Sirius continued.
"Well if you all must be so nosy okay then. James remember over the summer when i asked you if you had a thing for Lily? "
"Yeeaahh. James said slowly.
"Well are you sure that you dont like her? You guys would be great together." Remus asked quickly.
"What ?! Evans? No. Why do you keep bringing this up? Read my flapping lips. I will never like her none the less go out with Lily Evans. I will date Sirius before I go out with Lily Evans."
"Part of me is quite flattered but another part of me is quite hurt." Sirius said the first part with a flirtatious tone in his voice.
"If you don't like her why did you beat Malfoy, Snape, Crabbe, and Goyle in her name." Warren said matter of factly.
"I was being a decent human being, no one should be called a mudblood. But that doesn't mean I like her. Sirius you understand right?"
"No I don't actually." Sirius replied with a grin plastered on his face.
"Oh come on, Frank? Peter? Remus? Some one has got to believe that I dont like Lily Evans."
"If you don't like her why do you keep saying her name at the end of every sentence."Frank, Remus, Warren, and Sirius said at the same time.
"First of all why are you all ganging up on me like this? Secondly I do not keep saying Lily Ev-, her name at the end of every sentence."
"No one is ganging up on you James; we just want a simple answer to a simple question. It's just a yes or no answer." Remus added quite calmly.
"Yeah mate no one is ganging up on you you are just paranoid" Sirius added in a would be encouraging voice.
"Well can we just drop this topic please?" James said rather than asked.
Soon Monday came and so did their classes. The eleven kids soon found out that they had all of their classes together. Although they had all of their classes together Warren, Frank, Tricia, and Brynn didn't hang out with their roommates as much as the rest of the group hung out with each other. They had their own so they only talked to each other in their dorm rooms. No one really seemed to mind this. Meanwhile James and Lily were still fighting. Raven, Sirius, Simone, and Remus were becoming closer and closer to the point of being best friends. One day out of curiosity Simone asked Remus if any of the guys were mad at the fact that instead of being best friends with each other like it has always been, now there is a group of girls in the picture. He told her no because the four boys were completely past the stage of best friends, they were brothers.
As the year progressed the group soon found out they each had a specific subject that they were good in. Which helped a lot when tests and homework came along. Remus was at the top of their Magical History class. Lily was at the top of their Charms class. Simone was at the top of their Herbology class. Sirius was at the top of their Transfiguration class. Raven was at the top of their Potions class. James was at the top of their Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Peter wasn't really good at anything he barely passed his classes and never wanted help from the other kids. During Christmas break the group of friends stayed at Hogwart except for Peter. The Potters had some urgent business to attend to in Germany. Mr. Evans had to go to over look some employees that he believed to be stealing from the company. Mrs. Evans had a funeral to go to. Sirius just didn't want go home. Remus' parents were away at vacation and Simone only stayed because her friends were.
When classes resumed everything went back to normal. Which meant the marauders were pranking the students and staff. At the end of the year nothing out of the ordinary happened until the night before school was to end. All of the houses were throwing parties and everyone was having a great time until the head of each house came and ended the parties at about 2 o'clock. By 2:20 every was in their beds already asleep, except for the marauders. When they were sure that everyone was in bed they all snuck under the invisibility cloak that James inherited from his father on Christmas.
When they were making their way down the stairs Peter made a little bit more noise than necessary waking Raven out of her dream. She was just about to see the face of her groom when she heard a rat like squeal , that unfortunately for her was all too familiar. When she peaked down the stairs she saw Peter struggling to stay under the cloak and she heard what seemed to be Sirius telling Peter to keep his big mouth shut.
When they were making their way down the stairs Peter made a little bit more noise than necessary waking Raven out of her dream. She was just about to see the face of her groom when she heard a rat like squeal that unfortunately for her was all too familiar. When she peaked down the stairs she saw Peter struggling to stay under the cloak that she knew belonged to James, and she heard what seemed to be Sirius telling Peter to keep his big mouth shut.
"Damn it Peter, if you get us caught you'll regret it. I swear it." Sirius whispered angrily.
"Well its not that easy to be under a cloak with three other boys." Peter complained.
"And where am I? Honeydukes!?! No offense Remus. No offense James." Sirius said getting more agitated by the millisecond.
"Will you two just shut up?" Remus whispered calmly.
"Yeah we all need to be on the same side at least for tonight. You two can go back to your petty bickering later." James said hoping that the two boys would stop before Sirius started to get violent.
Raven didn't stay long enough to hear what happened next. She knew they were up to something and she went to go wake the girls so that they could find out what. She silently rushed back to her dorm and woke up or at least tried to wake up the rest of the girls. As an end result only Lily and Simone woke up. Brynn and Tricia muttered something and stayed in bed. When the three girls made it downstairs they found everything to be silent and it was evident that the boys had just left .For when they made it to the bottom of the staircases they heard the portrait swing shut. As they were about to open the portrait and leave the common room something occurred to Simone.
"Wait!!!" she whispered quickly.
"What?" Lily and Raven replied in unison.
"We'll get caught." Simone answered quickly
"What are you talking about?" Raven asked quickly, hoping that they wouldn't loose the boys.
"The boys have the invisibility cloak, but what do we have?" Simone asked.
"Oh I see." Raven said disappointed.
"Wait I have a fix to our problem." Lily said quickly and she pulled out her wand.
"Invisibilium" and next the next thing that Simone and Raven knew they were invisible.
"Wow Lily where did you find that spell?" Simone asked awed by the results.
"I can't remember, but it's really cool it makes everything you touch invisible while your still touching are under the effects of the spell. But the catch is, that the spell only works for fifteen minutes"
After they checked to see if the spell really worked they ran at top speed. They were running for about five minutes when they stopped. They could hear Sirius shushing Peter. The girls noticed that they were in front of great entrance and they were soon following the boys out of the castle. They followed them all the way to the quidditch shed and saw the boys take off the invisibility cloak and they each grabbed a broomstick. When the boys were in the air the girls immediately followed suit and grabbed a broom. True to Lily's word as soon as they touched their broom in became invisible. They jumped on and followed the boys to the North tower. When the boys landed on the roof, the girls were right behind them and were about to crash into them. But luckily for them they didn't. Simone was about to let go of her broom, but Lily stopped her just in time.
"Simone you cant drop it, if you do it will no longer be invisible, and if that happens then the boys will catch us." Raven said remembering what Lily said earlier.
"Oh I see." Was all that Simone could say?
The boys, by now had made their way to the center of the roof. Just as the girls were about to follow suit something happened. A strange green like portal appeared sending every one flying. When this happened a strange spirit like creature came out of the portal and was headed towards a door leading to the rest of the castle. But it seemed like it changed it's mind and turned around and headed for the marauders who were starting to regain their consciousness, but not quick enough.
The unknown intruder seemed to have fixed his sights on James. He threw curse after curse at James. But the strange thing was that every time James was hit with a curse , Lily's heart began to feel a stabbing pain, as if it were connected to him and she couldn't take it any more. Sure she hated James, but she didn't want to see him get hurt by this creature. For some reason every time Lily had a rage with in her and it grew every time she saw James getting hit. In the past she thought that if this event ever came she would just pull up a chair with some snacks enjoy the show. She quickly came back to reality. Lily quickly decided that she had to do something and fast, if not for him then for his family she would hate for them to lose a son and a brother before the first year of schooling was done.
That's when she remembered Raven. Lily turned around to find a determined Simone trying to hold back a furious Raven. Simone certainly had her hands full with trying to keep Raven quiet and trying to hold her back from attacking what ever this thing was.
"Petrificous Totales " Lily muttered, pointing her wand at Raven, who immediately stopped trying to get out from Simone's grasp.
"Simone can you please watch her." Lily commanded more than asked.
"Uh su- su -sure " She let out forcefully.
"But Lily what are you going to do?" Simone asked, recognizing the look on Lily's face.
"What should be done. They are our friends and we should be ashamed of the fact that we've wait this long to help them." Lily said while pointing to the four boys who were on the floor. All of their wands were all the way across the roof top.
Before Simone could muttered another syllable Lily ran off.
"Hey ugly a!!!!" Lily shouted.
"Who's there!?!" The invader said.
His voice sent a shiver down every one's spine. It sounded like it was slithering out of his throat instead of the flowing that came from everyone else. His cold eyes searched but could not find the source of the one who dared to be so brave.
"I'm right here you filthy piece of vermin." Lily said in a nasty tone.
The marauders were looking around. James thought he was going crazy.
"Lily?" James whispered.
Then Lily appeared out of thin air.
"So it was you . Such a loud voice on such a little girl."
It was then made evident to Lily that the spell had finally worn off. She looked past the stranger and into the eyes of each of the marauders, until her emerald green eyes met with the sapphire blue eyes that belonged to James. The intruder then started throwing hexes at Lily. After the first one she was thrown against a wall and was on the floor. The intruder then turned his back and made his way back to the four boys on the floor, not yet noticing the two girls in the corner. In fact none of the boys had noticed Simone or a frozen Raven. Lily's eyes darted across the roof top to James. She caught his attention and moved her eyes over to where the two girls were. A look of understanding came over his face. The stranger had placed the boys under a body bind. And was cursing them all over again. As Lily got up she caught Remus trying to catch her attention. She followed his gaze and realized she was sitting right next to their wands.Unnoticingly she grabbed hold of the wands and brought the attention back to her. "Hey freak!" Lily shouted. "You know what's rude? not only are you terrorizing young kids but you never introduced yourself. Now I am only gonna say this once. Who the hell are you." Lily shouted boldly. "what the hell is she doing." Each marauder thought to himself.
"Foolish girl, how dare you! You have no idea of whom you are speaking to, and you are not ready. Only a privileged few know of me as of now. But do not worry brat, in due time the entire wizarding world will know me. They will fear me and my name."
Every body got chills running up and down their spine just by the sound of his voice.
Then Lily did something she knew she'd regret "Wingardium Leviosa." She quickly said the first curse that came to her mind. To her surprise something actually happened. The stranger fell on his back, shocked of what just happened. The seven kids took this as a chance for escape. The three girls ran to the three boys who were struggling to get up. Lily ran to help Remus, while Raven rushed to her brother, and Simone ran to help Sirius. She looked for Peter, but he was no where in sight. Just as the girls were trying to get the boys propped up on their brooms, the stranger threw curse after curse toward the group until they were all on the floor.
"Ah now I know who you two are." the stranger directed towards Lily and James." It would benefit me to get rid of you now when your weak. But it would also benefit me to have you join me and my followers."
"The day i am ever on the same side as you is the day I switch from Gryffindor to Slytherin." James spat.
"Very well then and you, you little mudblood. "The stranger then turned his attention to Lily. Every one sat in silence anxiously awaiting her reaction. But before Lily could answer, James ran at full speed towards this person while shouting" that nobody calls her a mudblood."
Before James could reach him, the stranger hit him with yet another spell. After this last spell James was covered all over with his own blood. He could barely stand on his own, now. The stranger then turned to Lily .
"See girl, these people will do nothing for the power that you will possess. Look at them."
Lily turned to look at her friends. All of them were bruised badly, and in some serious need of medical attention. They were all, also, covered in James' blood. They all had a desperate look on their face. The stranger held out his hand. Girl, join me and my growing alliance, these people are nothing and if you stay with them you will be nothing. Just look, he was pointing at the group trying to help James up to his feet. I think its time i finished him off. If I dont he could become a serious problem. No I take that back, he will be a very serious problem for me. The stranger brought his hand forward and pointed his long, bony fingers at James who had by now managed to stand on his two feet on his own. The stranger muttered something, but surprisingly nothing happened to James. Instead, Remus, Sirius, Raven, and Simone all lost consciousness and fell to the floor. This left Lily and James alone with this man. (Peter was still nowhere to be seen.) Now girl, you can see your friend die. He once again raised his hand, and pointed his finger at James.
"Not if I can help it." Lily muttered.
"Avada Ke-" He tried to say. Before he could even finish the last two syllables. Lily tackled him, literally. He was now on the floor With Lily on top . James stood back and stared unable to do anything. He was so shocked that Lily Evans was standing up for him. She was risking her life for someone who had hated her, and whom she had hated since the days of diapers. He couldn't believe it. Lily didn't manage to keep him down for very long. Before James could get to Lily's side The stranger threw Lily off of him. Lily went Flying over the edge.
"Lily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"" James yelled after her.
As soon as she went flying, the door of the roof bursted open. Their stood Professor Dumbledor, Professor McGonnagol, and just about every professor at Hogwarts with their wand drawn and ready to duel. They were all dueling this man, whose identity was still a mystery. James had never been so glad to see teachers in his life. He immidiately went to the edge of the roof looking for Lily while screaming out her name. He had no luck seeing in the dark and decided to do something about it. The nurse, Madame Taylor and Professor Chandler, the charms teacher had immidiately taken the frozen bodies to the hospitable wing.
He ran to the broomstick that he had dropped earlier. He picked it up, drew out his wand, shouted out "lumos" and flew towards the grounds looking for a body preparing himself for the worst. To his shock he found no Lily. With his wand as the only source of light. He flew around the area until the light from his wand reflected off of something shiny and red. James immidiately flew towards it. Surely it was Lily, a barely conscience Lily, but Lily non-the-less. She was hanging by one arm off a part of the wall that happened to be sticking out. She looked like she was about to let go. James immidiately flew in and grabbed her left arm just as she let go. She was completely surprised that someone caught her, but she didnt have the strength to show it.
While holding the wand with one hand, he used his free hand to pull Lily up. Which wasn't exactly the easiest thing that he's had to do. Even though Lily was basically out of it, James felt kind of embarressed, because Lily was at least twenty pounds lighter than he was.
"Note to self, must work out." James quickly thought.........
.......Lily awoke the next day to hear voices speaking around her. "Minerva I think she's coming to." Lily recognized this voice. It belonged to the young school nurse, Madame Taylor. Lily opened her eyes to find Professor McGonnagol and Madame Taylor watching her expectantly........
A lifetime
After every one was full the prefects led the students to their house dormitories. After climbing many stairs the now tired Gryffindors stopped in front of a portrait of a plump woman in a pink dress. Every one waited in silence.
"Password?"
"The password is music box," the prefect said clearly then she directed her attention to the first years.
"The password changes every once in a while to ensure security. You will be notified when the password changes. Make sure you memorize your password for you can't get in with out it."
With that the portrait swung open and the prefects crawled through the opening immediately followed by the students. Every one was so tired that they just went straight to bed. The following morning unable to sleep Lily woke up at five o'clock, thankful that the day was Saturday (she wanted to become familiar with the castle as best as possible before classes started). When she got out of bed she finally got a chance to inspect her new room. When she looked around she saw that none of the other occupants drew the curtains so she was able to see who she would be sharing a dorm with for the upcoming year.
She recognized Raven in the bed to her right with her long jet- black her all over her face with every part of her going in a different direction. In the bed to her left was Simone who was sleeping peacefully. Lily then directed her attention to the other two girls whom she didn't know. One girl had deep red hair with a curly/wavy look to it that went a little bit past her shoulders. Lily also saw a pair of glasses resting on the nightstand next to her bed. The last occupant of the room had shoulder length sandy blonde hair but Lily couldn't see her face since her back was to Lily. After brushing her teeth and showering she went down stairs to get a better look at the common room. As she looked around the common room she saw that no one else was awake. The entire common room was draped in Gryffindor colors (scarlet & gold if you didn't know).
The room was quite large it was filled with comfortable scarlet couches, chairs, love seats, and many large pillows. There were small tables scattered here and there, scarlet and gold curtains hanging from the windows, and a warm fire coming from the large fireplace. Above the fireplace was a large Gryffindor flag and a portrait of Godric Gryffindor himself. After looking around the entire common room Lily stepped out of the portrait Lily went down the many stair cases down to the first floor and out onto the grounds. When she was done examining the grounds she went into the great hall only to see that it too was empty. She was also surprised to see breakfast appear. After having breakfast she continued on with her exploring. By ten o' clock she made a thorough trip around the castle. During her trip she learned quite a few secret passages, she learned the pattern at which the staircases moved, she was familiar with every classroom, she visited the library and got a good look at the quidditch field. When Lily made it back to the dormitory room she was immediately greeted with yells mostly coming from Raven.
"Oh my God thank God that your here, where have you been? What have you been doing do you know that we were all worried sick just thinking about what could have happened to you!?! I was just about to go get James. Oh you have a lot of explaining to do, well? What do you have to say for yoursel- "?
"Raven will you shut up so that Lily could talk?" Simone interrupted quite calmly.
"Okay Lily please tell us where you have been" Simone said.
"Raven will you shut up so that Lily could talk?" Simone interrupted quite calmly.
"Okay Lily please tell us where you have been" Simone said.
"Well I couldn't sleep so I got up and went exploring around the castle then I had breakfast and I explored the grounds. I am sorry to make you guys worry and what do you mean you were going to get James what does that retard have anything to do anything."
This last part Lily spat out. Raven then answered
"Well I just figured that he would pull what he did on the train when you disappeared"
"And what would that be"
Raven scoffed " Lily please tell me you know why James had that bloodied up nose"
After seeing Lily's clueless expression Raven continued.
"Well after we went looking for you we walked by a compartment with Luscious and his sorry excuse for a crew were talking about witches with muggle parents. And James heard him and sort of went boxer on him."
This last part she said slowly making sure that it sunk in.
"Wow did he really do that?"
"Yeah he did " Simone replied.
"Wait, you knew!?!"
"Of course, she told me this morning."
"Well that was pretty nice of him I guess I should go say thank you "
With that Lily slowly walked out of the room unable to believe that James Potter had done something nice for her.
"I don't get it. Why is it such a big deal that James did something nice for her."
The girl who had the sandy blonde hair asked. At that moment every one realized that that the two girls weren't introduced. The one with the deep red wavy hair was named Tricia Jiacomin. The one with the sandy blonde hair was Brynn. After they got acquainted with each other. Brynn reasked her question.
"Yeah what's up with them."? Tricia asked
It was then that Raven explained the whole feud between Lily and James.
"You see it all started the day we moved into our home, which conveniently right next door to hers. Well anyway the day we moved in was the day that Lily and her family were moving into theirs. Well at that time we had all just turned three, and when Lily came over to our house to introduce herself James had rigged a bucket of water and it fell all over Lily and it wasn't good since there were some very strong wind that day so to make a long story short. That day Lily got a bad case of the flu and ever since then they have getting each other back."
"Wait a minute you said they have been getting each other back, what did Lily do to get him back?" Brynn asked. Simone was just silently listening to them.
"Well a few weeks later Lily saw him in the park and snuck up behind him and pulled down his pants, but the thing is she accidentally pulled down his underwear too and yeah that made him really mad and embarrassed."
After a few minutes of silence each girl was getting ready. Simone finally spoke up.
"You know what's gonna happen right?"
"No what?" The other three girls answered.
"Those other two are gonna end up together."
After a few second the other girls slowly started to agree.
"Yep I can see it now" Tricia answered.
"Yeah so can I" Brynn said.
"Me too" said Raven.
"Well what are we doing up here still something is obviously happening because Lily should have been back"
As the girls opened the door to their dormitory they heard glass breaking. At that sound the girls rushed down stairs to see what was going on. They were the only one in there. Everyone else was either at lunch, exploring, or outside. (It was now 12:30) When the girl's made it down to the common room they wanted to do nothing but laugh at the scene in front of them. They found Sirius, Remus, and Peter taking cover behind a couch while James was trying to find something to hide behind. Lily who had marshmallow gunk in her hair and chicken feathers growing out of her was throwing pillows at him and soon she started chasing after him with the leg of a chair in her hand. While she was doing this she was cursing him out and every thing about him.
After the girls picked themselves up off the floor from laughing, they tried to stop Lily from killing James.
For the rest of the day the girls kept Lily as far away from James as possible and they spent most of their time exploring the castle. Unfortunately the group had to move from Lily to James and had to make to sure that they never mentioned one to the other. But through all of this everyone was getting closer until they were practically inseparable. (Except for the whole Lily and James situation.) One afternoon while the group was lounging in the busy common room the boys got into a heated conversation about which two quidditch teams would be making it to the next world cup. Raven who was also a quidditch fanatic was soon involved in the heated conversation.
Later on that evening after dinner the soon to be marauders were in their dormitory planning their ultimate aid in the pranks that will be pulled in the seven years that they would be at Hogwarts. After two hours of brainstorming the boys decided that they would be making map. After another hour of debating they went with Remus' idea. They were to call it the "Marauders Map". Around three o'clock in the morning the boys laid in their bed tired from all the thinking they had just done. Remus unable to figure anything else to talk about he spoke the first thing that came to his head.
Frank Longbottom is what one could consider regular height for an eleven- year-old boy. He has soft brown hair and baby blue eyes. He also liked to be behind the scenes of things. He was the quiet type and liked to listen to music he basically was a Remus but a bit more controlled.
Warren Smith had beautiful hazel eyes that have a sort of clear effect to them. He had soft hair. And was slightly taller than the rest of the boys in the dorm. He loved to laugh and was always joking around with everybody.
Now back to your regularly scheduled story
now back to your regularly scheduled story
"So go on Remus what do you mean?" Sirius continued.
"Well if you all must be so nosy okay then. James remember over the summer when i asked you if you had a thing for Lily? "
"Yeeaahh. James said slowly.
"Well are you sure that you dont like her? You guys would be great together." Remus asked quickly.
"What ?! Evans? No. Why do you keep bringing this up? Read my flapping lips. I will never like her none the less go out with Lily Evans. I will date Sirius before I go out with Lily Evans."
"Part of me is quite flattered but another part of me is quite hurt." Sirius said the first part with a flirtatious tone in his voice.
"If you don't like her why did you beat Malfoy, Snape, Crabbe, and Goyle in her name." Warren said matter of factly.
"I was being a decent human being, no one should be called a mudblood. But that doesn't mean I like her. Sirius you understand right?"
"No I don't actually." Sirius replied with a grin plastered on his face.
"Oh come on, Frank? Peter? Remus? Some one has got to believe that I dont like Lily Evans."
"If you don't like her why do you keep saying her name at the end of every sentence."Frank, Remus, Warren, and Sirius said at the same time.
"First of all why are you all ganging up on me like this? Secondly I do not keep saying Lily Ev-, her name at the end of every sentence."
"No one is ganging up on you James; we just want a simple answer to a simple question. It's just a yes or no answer." Remus added quite calmly.
"Yeah mate no one is ganging up on you you are just paranoid" Sirius added in a would be encouraging voice.
"Well can we just drop this topic please?" James said rather than asked.
Soon Monday came and so did their classes. The eleven kids soon found out that they had all of their classes together. Although they had all of their classes together Warren, Frank, Tricia, and Brynn didn't hang out with their roommates as much as the rest of the group hung out with each other. They had their own so they only talked to each other in their dorm rooms. No one really seemed to mind this. Meanwhile James and Lily were still fighting. Raven, Sirius, Simone, and Remus were becoming closer and closer to the point of being best friends. One day out of curiosity Simone asked Remus if any of the guys were mad at the fact that instead of being best friends with each other like it has always been, now there is a group of girls in the picture. He told her no because the four boys were completely past the stage of best friends, they were brothers.
As the year progressed the group soon found out they each had a specific subject that they were good in. Which helped a lot when tests and homework came along. Remus was at the top of their Magical History class. Lily was at the top of their Charms class. Simone was at the top of their Herbology class. Sirius was at the top of their Transfiguration class. Raven was at the top of their Potions class. James was at the top of their Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Peter wasn't really good at anything he barely passed his classes and never wanted help from the other kids. During Christmas break the group of friends stayed at Hogwart except for Peter. The Potters had some urgent business to attend to in Germany. Mr. Evans had to go to over look some employees that he believed to be stealing from the company. Mrs. Evans had a funeral to go to. Sirius just didn't want go home. Remus' parents were away at vacation and Simone only stayed because her friends were.
When classes resumed everything went back to normal. Which meant the marauders were pranking the students and staff. At the end of the year nothing out of the ordinary happened until the night before school was to end. All of the houses were throwing parties and everyone was having a great time until the head of each house came and ended the parties at about 2 o'clock. By 2:20 every was in their beds already asleep, except for the marauders. When they were sure that everyone was in bed they all snuck under the invisibility cloak that James inherited from his father on Christmas.
When they were making their way down the stairs Peter made a little bit more noise than necessary waking Raven out of her dream. She was just about to see the face of her groom when she heard a rat like squeal , that unfortunately for her was all too familiar. When she peaked down the stairs she saw Peter struggling to stay under the cloak and she heard what seemed to be Sirius telling Peter to keep his big mouth shut.
When they were making their way down the stairs Peter made a little bit more noise than necessary waking Raven out of her dream. She was just about to see the face of her groom when she heard a rat like squeal that unfortunately for her was all too familiar. When she peaked down the stairs she saw Peter struggling to stay under the cloak that she knew belonged to James, and she heard what seemed to be Sirius telling Peter to keep his big mouth shut.
"Damn it Peter, if you get us caught you'll regret it. I swear it." Sirius whispered angrily.
"Well its not that easy to be under a cloak with three other boys." Peter complained.
"And where am I? Honeydukes!?! No offense Remus. No offense James." Sirius said getting more agitated by the millisecond.
"Will you two just shut up?" Remus whispered calmly.
"Yeah we all need to be on the same side at least for tonight. You two can go back to your petty bickering later." James said hoping that the two boys would stop before Sirius started to get violent.
Raven didn't stay long enough to hear what happened next. She knew they were up to something and she went to go wake the girls so that they could find out what. She silently rushed back to her dorm and woke up or at least tried to wake up the rest of the girls. As an end result only Lily and Simone woke up. Brynn and Tricia muttered something and stayed in bed. When the three girls made it downstairs they found everything to be silent and it was evident that the boys had just left .For when they made it to the bottom of the staircases they heard the portrait swing shut. As they were about to open the portrait and leave the common room something occurred to Simone.
"Wait!!!" she whispered quickly.
"What?" Lily and Raven replied in unison.
"We'll get caught." Simone answered quickly
"What are you talking about?" Raven asked quickly, hoping that they wouldn't loose the boys.
"The boys have the invisibility cloak, but what do we have?" Simone asked.
"Oh I see." Raven said disappointed.
"Wait I have a fix to our problem." Lily said quickly and she pulled out her wand.
"Invisibilium" and next the next thing that Simone and Raven knew they were invisible.
"Wow Lily where did you find that spell?" Simone asked awed by the results.
"I can't remember, but it's really cool it makes everything you touch invisible while your still touching are under the effects of the spell. But the catch is, that the spell only works for fifteen minutes"
After they checked to see if the spell really worked they ran at top speed. They were running for about five minutes when they stopped. They could hear Sirius shushing Peter. The girls noticed that they were in front of great entrance and they were soon following the boys out of the castle. They followed them all the way to the quidditch shed and saw the boys take off the invisibility cloak and they each grabbed a broomstick. When the boys were in the air the girls immediately followed suit and grabbed a broom. True to Lily's word as soon as they touched their broom in became invisible. They jumped on and followed the boys to the North tower. When the boys landed on the roof, the girls were right behind them and were about to crash into them. But luckily for them they didn't. Simone was about to let go of her broom, but Lily stopped her just in time.
"Simone you cant drop it, if you do it will no longer be invisible, and if that happens then the boys will catch us." Raven said remembering what Lily said earlier.
"Oh I see." Was all that Simone could say?
The boys, by now had made their way to the center of the roof. Just as the girls were about to follow suit something happened. A strange green like portal appeared sending every one flying. When this happened a strange spirit like creature came out of the portal and was headed towards a door leading to the rest of the castle. But it seemed like it changed it's mind and turned around and headed for the marauders who were starting to regain their consciousness, but not quick enough.
The unknown intruder seemed to have fixed his sights on James. He threw curse after curse at James. But the strange thing was that every time James was hit with a curse , Lily's heart began to feel a stabbing pain, as if it were connected to him and she couldn't take it any more. Sure she hated James, but she didn't want to see him get hurt by this creature. For some reason every time Lily had a rage with in her and it grew every time she saw James getting hit. In the past she thought that if this event ever came she would just pull up a chair with some snacks enjoy the show. She quickly came back to reality. Lily quickly decided that she had to do something and fast, if not for him then for his family she would hate for them to lose a son and a brother before the first year of schooling was done.
That's when she remembered Raven. Lily turned around to find a determined Simone trying to hold back a furious Raven. Simone certainly had her hands full with trying to keep Raven quiet and trying to hold her back from attacking what ever this thing was.
"Petrificous Totales " Lily muttered, pointing her wand at Raven, who immediately stopped trying to get out from Simone's grasp.
"Simone can you please watch her." Lily commanded more than asked.
"Uh su- su -sure " She let out forcefully.
"But Lily what are you going to do?" Simone asked, recognizing the look on Lily's face.
"What should be done. They are our friends and we should be ashamed of the fact that we've wait this long to help them." Lily said while pointing to the four boys who were on the floor. All of their wands were all the way across the roof top.
Before Simone could muttered another syllable Lily ran off.
"Hey ugly a!!!!" Lily shouted.
"Who's there!?!" The invader said.
His voice sent a shiver down every one's spine. It sounded like it was slithering out of his throat instead of the flowing that came from everyone else. His cold eyes searched but could not find the source of the one who dared to be so brave.
"I'm right here you filthy piece of vermin." Lily said in a nasty tone.
The marauders were looking around. James thought he was going crazy.
"Lily?" James whispered.
Then Lily appeared out of thin air.
"So it was you . Such a loud voice on such a little girl."
It was then made evident to Lily that the spell had finally worn off. She looked past the stranger and into the eyes of each of the marauders, until her emerald green eyes met with the sapphire blue eyes that belonged to James. The intruder then started throwing hexes at Lily. After the first one she was thrown against a wall and was on the floor. The intruder then turned his back and made his way back to the four boys on the floor, not yet noticing the two girls in the corner. In fact none of the boys had noticed Simone or a frozen Raven. Lily's eyes darted across the roof top to James. She caught his attention and moved her eyes over to where the two girls were. A look of understanding came over his face. The stranger had placed the boys under a body bind. And was cursing them all over again. As Lily got up she caught Remus trying to catch her attention. She followed his gaze and realized she was sitting right next to their wands.Unnoticingly she grabbed hold of the wands and brought the attention back to her. "Hey freak!" Lily shouted. "You know what's rude? not only are you terrorizing young kids but you never introduced yourself. Now I am only gonna say this once. Who the hell are you." Lily shouted boldly. "what the hell is she doing." Each marauder thought to himself.
"Foolish girl, how dare you! You have no idea of whom you are speaking to, and you are not ready. Only a privileged few know of me as of now. But do not worry brat, in due time the entire wizarding world will know me. They will fear me and my name."
Every body got chills running up and down their spine just by the sound of his voice.
Then Lily did something she knew she'd regret "Wingardium Leviosa." She quickly said the first curse that came to her mind. To her surprise something actually happened. The stranger fell on his back, shocked of what just happened. The seven kids took this as a chance for escape. The three girls ran to the three boys who were struggling to get up. Lily ran to help Remus, while Raven rushed to her brother, and Simone ran to help Sirius. She looked for Peter, but he was no where in sight. Just as the girls were trying to get the boys propped up on their brooms, the stranger threw curse after curse toward the group until they were all on the floor.
"Ah now I know who you two are." the stranger directed towards Lily and James." It would benefit me to get rid of you now when your weak. But it would also benefit me to have you join me and my followers."
"The day i am ever on the same side as you is the day I switch from Gryffindor to Slytherin." James spat.
"Very well then and you, you little mudblood. "The stranger then turned his attention to Lily. Every one sat in silence anxiously awaiting her reaction. But before Lily could answer, James ran at full speed towards this person while shouting" that nobody calls her a mudblood."
Before James could reach him, the stranger hit him with yet another spell. After this last spell James was covered all over with his own blood. He could barely stand on his own, now. The stranger then turned to Lily .
"See girl, these people will do nothing for the power that you will possess. Look at them."
Lily turned to look at her friends. All of them were bruised badly, and in some serious need of medical attention. They were all, also, covered in James' blood. They all had a desperate look on their face. The stranger held out his hand. Girl, join me and my growing alliance, these people are nothing and if you stay with them you will be nothing. Just look, he was pointing at the group trying to help James up to his feet. I think its time i finished him off. If I dont he could become a serious problem. No I take that back, he will be a very serious problem for me. The stranger brought his hand forward and pointed his long, bony fingers at James who had by now managed to stand on his two feet on his own. The stranger muttered something, but surprisingly nothing happened to James. Instead, Remus, Sirius, Raven, and Simone all lost consciousness and fell to the floor. This left Lily and James alone with this man. (Peter was still nowhere to be seen.) Now girl, you can see your friend die. He once again raised his hand, and pointed his finger at James.
"Not if I can help it." Lily muttered.
"Avada Ke-" He tried to say. Before he could even finish the last two syllables. Lily tackled him, literally. He was now on the floor With Lily on top . James stood back and stared unable to do anything. He was so shocked that Lily Evans was standing up for him. She was risking her life for someone who had hated her, and whom she had hated since the days of diapers. He couldn't believe it. Lily didn't manage to keep him down for very long. Before James could get to Lily's side The stranger threw Lily off of him. Lily went Flying over the edge.
"Lily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"" James yelled after her.
As soon as she went flying, the door of the roof bursted open. Their stood Professor Dumbledor, Professor McGonnagol, and just about every professor at Hogwarts with their wand drawn and ready to duel. They were all dueling this man, whose identity was still a mystery. James had never been so glad to see teachers in his life. He immidiately went to the edge of the roof looking for Lily while screaming out her name. He had no luck seeing in the dark and decided to do something about it. The nurse, Madame Taylor and Professor Chandler, the charms teacher had immidiately taken the frozen bodies to the hospitable wing.
He ran to the broomstick that he had dropped earlier. He picked it up, drew out his wand, shouted out "lumos" and flew towards the grounds looking for a body preparing himself for the worst. To his shock he found no Lily. With his wand as the only source of light. He flew around the area until the light from his wand reflected off of something shiny and red. James immidiately flew towards it. Surely it was Lily, a barely conscience Lily, but Lily non-the-less. She was hanging by one arm off a part of the wall that happened to be sticking out. She looked like she was about to let go. James immidiately flew in and grabbed her left arm just as she let go. She was completely surprised that someone caught her, but she didnt have the strength to show it.
While holding the wand with one hand, he used his free hand to pull Lily up. Which wasn't exactly the easiest thing that he's had to do. Even though Lily was basically out of it, James felt kind of embarressed, because Lily was at least twenty pounds lighter than he was.
"Note to self, must work out." James quickly thought.........
.......Lily awoke the next day to hear voices speaking around her. "Minerva I think she's coming to." Lily recognized this voice. It belonged to the young school nurse, Madame Taylor. Lily opened her eyes to find Professor McGonnagol and Madame Taylor watching her expectantly........