A/N: This story doesn't really include Snape much but I thought it was a good idea and I didn't want to waste it. I think that this is the shortest one so far but I will try to make the next one longer. By the way, sorry if anyone thought that I had updated because of the alerts. I discovered some missing lines and grammatical errors that I just couldn't leave in the other chapters. It drives me crazy, lol.

Disclaimer: Am a rich and famous author who owns Harry Potter? I don't think so. If I was, why would I be writing on fanfiction?

Opportunities, chapter 3- An invitation to ignorance (doesn't really make sense I know, but I couldn't think of anything else. Tell me in a review if you can think of something better S.V.P! It would be much appreciated.)

Lily Evans and James Potter had gone through a lot since graduating from Hogwarts. Even though they were only nineteen years old they were forced to live with the troubles of someone much older. Both of them had joined the order of the phoenix and had already escaped Voldemort once. There had been many deaths, James' parents included. Those few months had been hard for both James and Sirius as they had taken him in when he ran away at the age of sixteen. They were more his parents then his own.

Alice and Frank or the "Longbottoms" had gotten married only two months after graduation, not wanting to waste anytime. They too had narrowly escaped Voldemort and with all of this you would think that Lily Evans would be worried sick, but no. She was more concerned about the wedding invitations she had yet to sort out.

There she was, sitting at her kitchen table staring at a list of names that she and James had come up with. The list needed to be narrowed down so the invitations could be started and mailed off. The wedding was as James had put it, two months away.

There was no question whether or not to invite the first person on the list. Sirius Black would be James' best man. Lily laughed silently to herself; Sirius would have come invitation even if he didn't get an invitation. Then there was good old Remus Lupin who had agreed to walk her down the aisle in place of her father. She could still remember clear as a bell the day she confronted Remus about being a werewolf. He, along with James and Sirius, couldn't believe that she had figured out everything. Although, it certainly hadn't been easy finding out about how Sirius, James and Peter were all animagus'.

Speaking of Peter, the last marauder, but certainly not the least, he was invited to the wedding too. He wasn't the smartest, the loudest or the most attractive. He was just Peter or as Sirius called him, Mrs. Snivilley Snape. Lily frowned at that thought. Sirius could take things too far sometimes. She admitted that it had been funny at first but now it just seemed cruel to Snape and poor Peter (A/N: Yeah right! I had to humiliate Peter! He deserves it!shakes fist). She still didn't understand why Severus did that in the first place…Was it meant as a joke to make Peter think that he had a secret admirer? If so, signing the letter Severus Snape was a bad idea on his part (A/N: Oh Lily, how naïve can you get? You're supposed to be smart!).

Another invitation she started addressing was Dumbledore's. There was no question when it came to inviting him either. She couldn't imagine having the wedding without him. He had been there for most major events in their lives, it just wouldn't be right if he missed this. Especially after he had helped both Lily and James with the deaths of their parents.

Lily continued addressing several invitations to other members of the order, which included some of their old teachers as well. Other invitations included one of their neighbors, Bathilda Bagshot and some old friends from Hogwarts. James and Lily didn't really have any family left except for her sister Petunia. They had talked for quite sometime about inviting her and decided that even they did invite her and that walrus of husband Vernon, they wouldn't come anyways.

She then addressed the invitations to the Longbottoms. Alice was going to be after all, her maid of honor. Thinking of all those good times they had at school reminded her of Mary. They had lost touch with her since it was such a long journey for owls and they couldn't risk traveling at times like this. She doubted that Mary would be able to attend, even if the invitation did make it there on time.

After consulting the list once for she realized that she had already gone through all of the names except for one. A name that she had added out of hesitation when James had already gone to bed the night before… Severus Snape. True, she didn't talk to him anymore but he had been her best friend after all. Nonetheless, James and Sirius would rip him apart. James would most likely snap at the idea of inviting him. Still, she felt guilty. As if she was pushing him off of a cliff or something. It didn't feel right. After several minutes she made her decision and went to the post office to mail the many owls it would take to send off the invitation.

Awhile later at Snape's small house…

Severus Snape was sitting in his small living room by the fire when he heard a small tape at the kitchen window. He quickly walked across the room, cloak billowing behind him. He opened up the window to let in a small tawny owl. It had a small pouch and a newspaper attached to its leg. Snape removed the paper and placed a Knut in its pouch. After it had flown away he shut the window firmly, locking it with a spell.

He opened the paper and saw nothing interesting right away so he merely tossed it aside, unto the coffee table. It had been opened up to reveal a small picture on the top right hand corner of one of the last pages. The headline read…

Wedding of Lily Evans and James Potter held last Wednesday a success.

Snape cursed silently. As he tossed the paper into the fire the dark mark on his arm started to burn… They had gotten information.

A/N: Did I trick you into thinking Lily was going to invite him? Most likely not, but hey! It was fun. I will most likely only write one more chapter after this because the only other ideas I have after the next one are only about Snape, not James and Lily. I will make that into a sequel so look out for it! I have yet to name it but it will have Snape's name in there somewhere. :D

Salu!

- jillybear