After James had finished talking with the Marauders, he made his way back to the Head's Dormitory in hopes that Lily was there so they could talk. He found her sitting at the table, working on her homework.

"Hello James," Lily said rather icily, not looking up from her Transfiguration homework.

"Lily, I've got something I need to tell you," James sat down beside her, musing his hair with his hand as he tried to think of ways to phrase what he was about to say.

"Oh, what's that?" Lily questioned, looking up.

"You've got to promise to hear me out Lily, you've got to hear all my reasons." James said seriously, tipping her chin so that she was looking at him in the eyes. Lily's heart raced nervously, fearing that he had changed his mind about what he had said that night at the Samhain Ball.

"Ok," she whispered.

"There is no easy way of saying this Lily, but around our second year at Hogwarts, Sirius, Peter and I decided to become illegal Animagus," James started, searching for the right words.

"What? Why!" Lily exclaimed, not bothering to hide her shock. "You could get into serious trouble!"

"I know, I know. We did it for Remus," James tiredly replied.

"Why would you do something like that for Remus?" Lily questioned, her thoughts a tornado of confusion.

"Because Lily, Remus is a werewolf. We couldn't see our best mate go through that alone, and the only way we could be with him through it is if we were animals too. So we started studying up on it, and practising it and soon we mastered it," James replied.

"Remus, a werewolf?" Lily considered it, and then snapped her fingers. "That makes perfect sense!"

"Yeah well, don't tell anyone about it," James awkwardly said, knowing perfectly well that she wouldn't.

"Of course I won't…wait, what about Marlene? Does she know?" Lily questioned, she had long since forgot about her homework.

"Remus is planning on telling her," James nodded, "Sirius is debating on whether or not to tell Ellie, but I trust Ellie and Alice so you could tell them if you want but make sure that no one is around to overhear you and make sure that they promise to not tell anyone."

"I promise," Lily said, thinking about all the things James had just told her. "So you guys all did this just for Remus? It's no wonder you're excellent at Transfiguration."

James shrugged, grinning sheepishly. "I thought you would be mad."

"Well, because you did it for a friend and not for your own selfish reasons, I'm not. But you could get into serious trouble with the Ministry of Magic if they ever found out."

"They aren't Lily. Besides, this has a lot of advantage points for us." James told her.

"And they are?"

"Voldemort would track us down if we were registered Animagus, it's safer this way." James shrugged.

"Don't do anything stupid James, I'm not sure how I feel about this." Lily told him, sighing.

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The rest of the weekend seemed to fly by for Lily, and she was pleased to be in classes again. It gave her something else to think about, other then James risking his arse and being an unregistered Animagus. She still loved James with all her heart, and in a way he was a very good person for becoming an Animagus just for the sake of one friend, but she would worry constantly.

"I can take care of myself Lil," James whispered, as if he had read her mind. He was effortlessly turning a cup coaster into a rabbit. Transfiguration was very easy to him, but he knew that it frustrated Lily that she had to work so hard to maintain.

"I know," Lily sighed, placing her wand down in frustration. James put his wand down and guided Lily's hand with her want.

"It's more of a gentle flick," he said. Lily followed his advice, finding it worked perfectly.

"Are you mad at me Lil?" James asked, looking into her eyes. Lily sighed.

"No, I'm not mad, I'm just really worried." Lily whispered. She looked around; making sure that nobody was listening in on their conversation. The class was loudly talking amongst themselves and hardly getting any work done, as usual.

"I can take care of myself, besides, the guys would never let anything bad happen to me." James told her. He squeezed her leg under the table reassuringly.

After what seemed like forever, class ended and lunch began. Lily sat beside James, feeling that things were almost back to normal. As usual, James had managed to kiss all of Lily's fears and worries away. Lily knew that James would be able to handle himself, and she was positive that Sirius and Remus wouldn't let anything bad happen to her. She did a double take, playing back the thought in her head, wondering vaguly why she left out Peter. Lately he had been with Ledaria a lot. When the gang hung out in between classes, Peter was nowhere to be seen. Lily had an odd feeling about it, but she couldn't place her finger on just what that odd feeling was.

"Guys, where's Peter?" James questioned, looking around at his friends. Ellie and Sirius were flirting like mad as usual, Alice was talking to Remus and Marlene about some kind of new potion that was discovered, and he and Lily had been eating their meal in a comfortable silence, stealing glances at each other and smiling.

"I don't know, he said something about a picnic with someone," Remus shrugged. He had finished his lunch and was now sitting with his arm draped around Marlene's shoulder.

"Er, with who?" James questioned, having a bad feeling that it was Ledaria Smirth he was with.

"Probably Ledaria, that's who he's with all the time now. I haven't seen them apart in ages." Sirius gruffly replied, scowling at the Slytherin table as if it was their fault. Ledaria was also missing, which didn't shock any of them at all.

"I'm concerned now. We're going to have to have a talk with Peter. In case your forgetting, he's got a lot of important information that we don't want leaking out," James mumbled, sending Sirius and Remus the look.

"He won't tell her," Remus said, shocked at the very idea. "Peter may be a little dull but he isn't a troll."

"Ledaria seems to have this power over him though… its unexplainable really." James shrugged. "I'm just concerned."

"I think we should hang out with Ledaria some more before we judge her," Alice wisely suggested. By now, Alice, Ellie and Marlene all knew about Remus and the boys being Animgus, but it didn't really matter to any of them. Remus had been petrified that Marlene's feelings for him had changed, but they hadn't at all. She was still madly smitten with him and it showed. Of course, Lily had known that Marlene wouldn't mind, she would be concerned for his well being but with Marlene's compassionate heart, there was no way she would have turned Remus away.

"I don't want to hang out with that hag, she's from Slytherin," Sirius grumbled, stabbing at his meat with his fork.

"I think Alice is on to something," Lily said thoughtfully, developing a plan. "If we hang out with Ledaria, we'll get to know her better. We'll be able to tell if she's just using Peter or if she actually likes him."

"I bet she's trying to turn him into a death eater," Sirius grumbled.

"That's a good idea Lily," James agreed, nodding his head. "We're all pretty good judges of character, aren't we?"

"Yeah. I still think Ledaria's using him for something. I mean look at her, she's hot, what would she want with Peter?" Sirius continued, glancing around the table for support. Ellie tossed him a look. "But your hotter my sweet," Sirius added sweetly, kissing Ellie.

"Now Sirius, withhold your judgement until after we hang out with her, and we have to hang out with her often. You can't judge a book by its cover, and first impressions are often wrong." Lily told them.

"When do we start?" Marlene questioned.

"Right away," Lily told them, smiling. "We have potions with the Slytherin's next, Remus and you sit in front of Ledaria and Peter remember?"

"Actually, I don't pay attention to who's in that class," Marlene replied, smiling smugly and sending Remus a secret look. He blushed.

"Just talk to them, see if they want to go down to the lake with us after supper." Lily said, rolling her eyes and trying to hide a smile.

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In Potions, they had to make some kind of de-fungi potion that would get ride of fungi on your feet – should you ever get fungus on your feet. Marlene and Remus took turns turning around to talk with Peter and Ledaria, avoiding Professor Kernaghan's revolving eyes.

"We're all going to go to the lake after supper, do you guys want to come?" Marlene questioned, flashing Ledaria an easy, friendly smile. Ledaria looked back at her with her dark, almost empty eyes, her face expressionless.

"Peter and I were planning on catching up on our homework, weren't we Peter?" Ledaria coldly replied, glancing at Peter, who avoided looking at Remus and Marlene at all.

"Uh, yeah. I'm way behind in Potions and Ledaria's really good at it. She's going to help me," Peter replied, almost squeaking. Lily, who was listening into the conversation, noted that Peter's voice usually went up a few notches when he was worried or nervous. She glanced over at James, who was also listening in and seemed to have noticed that little detail as well.

"Oh, well alright. Have fun I guess," Marlene replied, turning back to face the front of the class.

The rest of the class, the six focused on completing their de-fungi potion and handing it in to Professor Kernaghan. When the bell finally rang, Lily put all her books in her bag and caught up with Ledaria and Peter.

"I couldn't help over hearing that you were helping Peter with his Potions, do you mind if you gave James and I some extra help?" Lily asked sweetly, smiling at Ledaria. Ledaria gave Peter a look, and then sighed, seeing no way out of this one.

"Alright, I suppose so. We'll be in the library." Ledaria stiffly replied, stalking off with Peter at her heals.

"That was smooth," James said, catching up to Lily.

"Thanks," Lily replied, frowning in thought.

"Aren't you great at Potions?" James questioned, raising his eyebrows as he took her hand.

"Um, yeah but Ledaria doesn't know that," Lily replied, flashing him a half smile as they continued on to their next class.

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After supper, Lily and James trudged towards the library, James deeply detesting the idea of doing more Potions homework when he had none. They searched around the library for Ledaria and Peter but didn't see them, so they took a seat near the doors so they could watch. They waited about an hour and a half before James got restless and wanted to leave.

"Very suspicious that they didn't show up," Remus commented. They were all sitting in the Gryffindor common room, discussing what happened in Potions and what hadn't happened in the library.

"Yeah, it is suspicious." Marlene nodded, staring into the fire. "Ledaria wasn't exactly giving Peter time to answer when I asked them if they wanted to hang with us."

"She's using him for something," Sirius said, positive now. "We just have to find out for what reason."

"Maybe you and Remus could talk to Peter when he gets in tonight," James said, yawning and standing up. "I'm gonna go to bed. Quidditch practice is tomorrow after supper, and I need energy."

"I guess I'll go too," Lily sighed, standing up. "Remember to talk to him, don't corner him and tell him what you think about Ledaria, but just take it from a side approach. It's best if Remus talks to him actually, no offence Sirius."

"None taken," Sirius nodded. "Night guys."

"Night," they said, leaving for their own dormitory.

"It's been an interesting week," James commented.

"That it has," Lily nodded.

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