The Forgotten Tale of Lily and James

Being human has enough pressure in itself, but adding a magical school, friends, bullies, pranksters, really strict teachers, and love to the mix makes something completely different. Read the story of The Marauders and Lily. JPLE RLOC Maybe some SBOC

Disclaimer: None of this is mine except for the plot and the extra characters...everything else belongs to the wonderfully brilliant J.K. Rowling...

Ch1 - Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Lily Evans walked through the brick wall between platforms nine and ten like it was absolutely nothing. If some muggle was watching they would have thought that they had gone completely bonkers, I mean really, who ever heard of people walking through brick walls? Witches and wizards that's who, and Lily was one of them. Of course, walking through the barrier separating the two worlds sounds horribly terrifying, but I can assure you its not. For Lily, it was a breeze, especially since she had been doing it since she was eleven.

At the young age of eleven, Lily Evans had been sitting at home watching her mother prepare brunch for her family and explaining a book that her best friend at the time, Meghana Simons, had lent her, to her father, when a small brown owl had flown into the kitchen while clutching a cream colored envelope. Once Lily and her father had caught and calmed the owl, while Lily's mother stood shocked in the center of the kitchen, Lily detached the envelope from the owl's ankles. Lily slowly read the letter to herself seven times, despite the questions her parents were throwing at her, before reading the words aloud to her parents. After reading the letter an eighth time, her father promptly dropped his mug and coffee seeped all over the white, throw rug, however, neither parent noticed, and if they happened to, neither made a move to clean it up.

That was the day Lily's whole life changed. Her parents became so much more proud of her, her sister disowned her because of her so called 'abnormality', and Meghana had decided that she needed to 'think about' if she could be friends with a witch. Her answer had been a compromise which stated that Lily and her would always be 'distant' friends, they would not talk regularly but they would still be there for each other, which upset Lily, yet she was still moderately happy that her childhood friend was not completely deserting her. Meghana had decided that she wouldn't tell anyone about what she called Lily's 'condition' because even if she did no one would have believed an eleven year old girl crying witch, so Meghana resorted to telling everyone in the school that Lily was accepted to a fancy, British, boarding school. Meghana wished Lily the best of luck and told her that if she ever needed someone to talk to, she would always be where Lily left her. Lily had soon pushed the thought of Meghana aside once she met her two new best friends. You lose some, you gain some.

Now entering her seventh and final year at Hogwarts, Lily had grown into a strikingly beautiful teenager. She had grown three inches over the past two years, resulting in her height being five feet and eight inches, her figure had become more curvaceous, and her auburn curls had grown longer over the summer, yet there was one thing that hadn't changed about her. Her eyes. They were still as bright and green as they were on the first day of her life. Still, even though Lily looked different, she did not feel different. She still wanted to study hard and get top marks, even though she had already achieved being Head Girl, she still wanted to spend time with her friends, and she was still intent on hating James Potter just as much as she did last year.

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As soon as she stepped into the wizarding world she was greeted by one of her best friends.

"LILY!" A blonde girl came running over and hugged the red head until she almost couldn't breathe.

"Chanel…please…get…off…" Lily managed to choke out.

"Oh my gosh," she said as she let go of the girl. "I'm so sorry, I just missed you so much!"

Lily smiled and looked at her friend. Chanel was tall, at five feet and nine inches, skinny, weighing only slightly over one hundred pounds, and beautiful. Chanel's shoulder length blonde hair was highlighted brown and the underneath layer of her hair was dyed black, her blue eyes made her face shine, and when she smiled, it was contagious. Chanel never let people boss her around, if she even thought that she was trying to be forced into something that she didn't want to do, the next World War was on its way.

"Have you seen Eloise yet?" Lily asked.

"Ellie's getting a compartment for us," Chanel answered. "I have no idea where though."

"I suppose we should find her then." Lily replied, while rolling her eyes.

The two girls set off to find their friend, until they bumped into someone.

"Oh, I'm so sorry you guys, I was just trying to find James and Sirius. Have you two seen them?" Remus asked.

Lily looked up at the tall, sandy haired boy. Remus was so much taller than her, at six feet three inches, Remus had managed to gain the title of the tallest Marauder. However, Remus had not been able to gain the title of most handsome, though he was very close, with his medium length blonde-brown hair and amazing deep blue eyes, he did manage to steal some girls' hearts. Remus was the most practical out of his three troublesome friends. He was usually quiet, always reading, he always did well in school, and has even been prefect for the past two years. Everyone loved Remus, yet no one could explain his enigmatic monthly disappearances from school, except for the other Marauders of course, since they were almost inseparable. Almost.

Everyone knew that Sirius Black and James Potter would always be like twins, whenever one of them got into a fight, the other one was always there to back them up, although there were the occasional disagreements between them, the two of them stuck together like magnets. However, out of the four of them, Peter was the one most often left out because he sort of only tagged along. It appeared that he had nothing to do with anything that they did, he was just merely there.

"Nope, but I assume that they're off wreaking havoc somewhere, as usual." Chanel said.

Lily giggled and Remus laughed. The only thing the Marauders did was wreak havoc, what else could they be doing?

Someone a few feet away coughed. The girls and Remus all turned to discover who made the noise when they were suddenly opposite James Potter and Sirius Black.

"We do not always 'wreak havoc'!" Sirius said in mock outrage. "We merely take pleasure in making a small amount of mischief!"

Lily snorted while Chanel rolled her eyes, the day that the Marauders only made a small amount of mischief, Slytherins wouldn't hate muggle-borns.

"Anyway, now that you've found your...friends, we'll be off to go find Ellie, bye Remus!" Lily informed as she stepped up onto her tiptoes to hug him.

"Why do I get no goodbye Evans?" James asked, trying to look hurt.

"Yeah you guys, no goodbye for me either?" Sirius said.

"Dream on, loser." Chanel stated. "Bye Remus!"

Remus leaned in to hug her but Chanel stepped away. She waved as she started to walk away.

"Sucks for you man." They heard one of the boys say.

They walked back to the train in giggles.

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Lily, Chanel, and Eloise all made up a social 'group', in other words they were the best of friends. Lily is studious yet fun, giggly, and energetic. Chanel is sweet, smart, persuasive, friendly, and a little shy, however she had a wild side. Eloise, on the other hand, is one crazy girl, she's always hyper, loud, funny, and she's Quidditch obsessed, she's actually a chaser on the Gryffindor team. One thing that many people didn't know about Eloise is that her name was Eloise. Most people called her Elle or Ellie, and she was hoping that it would stay that way so she didn't tell anyone her real name. It's been working well for her.

"Guess who's here!"

"Ellie!" Lily yelled as they hugged. Today Eloise had lime green hair, instead of her normal, black hair. Well, everyone thought that black was her normal hair color since she showed up on the first day of first year with black hair, but no one actually knew. Eloise had told Lily and Chanel that she herself had no idea what her own natural hair color was. Since, as a child, Eloise had very little control over emotions, causing her hair to change colors several times in day. Eloise was a Metamorphmagus, which meant that she could change her appearance at will. Metamorphmagi are very rare, they're born, not made, there are only about forty or so in the whole wizarding world. Eloise's blue eyes twinkled with excitement as she told her friends all about her summer at her parents' mansion and the new pranks she'd planned for the Marauders.

Lily was telling everyone about her boring summer when Chanel yawned. Eloise stared at her like she was crazy while Lily just said "Come on, my summer wasn't THAT boring!"

After Eloise recovered from her mini-shock episode she said, "Chanel, when did you get your stomach pierced?"

"Erm…the day after vacation started."

"Why didn't you tell us?" Lily asked.

"Uh…you didn't ask?" Chanel smiled guiltily. Eloise glared at her. "Alright, alright! I couldn't risk the chance of my mother finding out."

"Your mother doesn't KNOW about the hole in your stomach?" Lily exclaimed loudly. "Chanel, you're going to get in so much trouble when your mother finds out about this!"

"Lily, RELAX! My mother is NOT going to find out about this, I've got it all covered. My little brother Beau, you remember him? He's ten and he just so happens to be an amazing liar and hardly ever talks to my mom anyway since he's going through those 'I-hate-everyone-especially-my-parents' stage. And my older sister Corinne would not dare to tell her because my mother would ground her for much, much longer than me because she was the one who took me in the first place, and if one of you tells her, I will never speak to you again and spread really nasty rumors about you all." Chanel laughed. Lily rolled her eyes and Eloise snickered.

Their laughter was soon lost in the atmosphere when three tall shadows appeared near the door. Lily rolled her eyes and said, "Three guesses who."

And in the next second, three boys walked in the door.

"Why, hello my dearest Lily! How are we doing today?" James asked.

Lily rolled her eyes and sighed. She would never escape James Potter. "I was just fine until you showed up."

Eloise elbowed Lily in the ribs. "Be nice!' she hissed. Eloise had constantly been telling Lily that if she tried to be nicer and friendlier to James, then maybe he would gain some respect for her and not just think of her as a challenge, but as an actual person. Lily, however, highly doubted this theory.

"Ellie, my darling, I have something quite lovely to show you later on if you would join me?" Sirius said, in a very posh tone.

"Of course my dear, anything!" Eloise replied, while using the same fake voice Sirius had.

"Can you two possibly go flirt somewhere else? It's extremely over done and quite boring really."

Eloise shot a dirty look at Lily and stuck her tongue out before saying "How rude!"

"Oh please." Lily grumbled. "So why are you guys here in the first place?"

"Well," Remus began. "We all know what Sirius came here for, however, James and I have come to request your presence at the Prefect meeting."

"Oh!" Lily gasped. She forgot about the Prefect meeting.

Lily rolled her eyes and walked out of the compartment, with Remus and James. Halfway to the Prefect meeting, Lily realized something and stopped short, causing the two boys behind her to cause a minor pile-up. She slowly turned around, praying that what she thought was not true. She glanced at James and noticed that his robes were proudly displaying the one thing Lily did not want him to have. The Head Boy badge. James quickly took notice of where her gaze was directed and said cheekily, "Oh yes, Evans. I'm Head Boy."

rewritten, you may notice some similarities if you've read it before.