AuthorsNote: This is the last time Harry will be with the Marauders... so sad. I didn't really get any reviews so I didn't think that you guys even cared, but I guss two is better than nothing... Thanks for the two reviews!

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Chapter Fourteen

Goodbye For Now

History—

I'm going to get Remus to sing a Desiree song tonight for the summer ball dance, wont that be nice for you two love birds?

Antonette wrote a note to Desiree as they sat in the front of their History class while the Marauders were in the back goofing off while Mr. Binns drowned on about the difference between warlocks and wizards.

I told you to stop teasing me! Payback's a bitch- here it goes. I heard from Lily that you have had a crush on Severus since you were eleven.

-Desiree

STOP CHANGING THE SUBJECT!! We were talking about you and Remus. You guys keep 'hedging' when I mention the other one. Out with it. You're crazy about him.

-Antonette

P.S. Don't listen to anything Lily says! She lies like a rug- lie lie

lie lie lie lie LIE!!

Mum told me also that when you were about four, you liked to sing along with Sesame Street, but you would never sing it around me.

- Desiree

I DID NOT! Well, you know what Remus said about you? "XXXXOOXXOXOXX" THAT'S

What!

-Antonette

When are you going to shut up?

-Desiree

When you and Remus shack up.

-Antonette

Shack up?

-Desiree

Yea, make babies! Little Remus junior and Desiree junior.

-Antonette

I really, really, really, feel like stabbing you right now! If only I had a very sharp knife!

-Desiree

"...During this time in the American Revolution, American wizards were used to destroy British supply units..."

Who gives a damn? Harry thought as Professor Binns rambled on. Harry seemed to be the only one that hadn't fallen asleep yet in the lesson. No--wait a minute-- James seemed to be bored out of his mind too. As Harry struggled to keep his head up, he saw Lily make an exasperated gesture at him.

"Pay attention!" Lily mouthed.

'Yea right! School is out in a week and Binns is lecturing us! I might as well jump out the window to end my day, at least then I'll have some enjoyment…' Harry had wanted to say to Lily, but he knew he would never say something like that to his future mother.

"Hey Blacknight guess what?" Sirius said to him.

"What Padfoot?" Harry yawned.

"I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo BORED!" Sirius said the last sentence out loud waking the class up.

"What else is new?" James exclaimed.

"Mr. Black! If you can not control yourself you will be getting a detention!" Proffessor Binns said to him before going back to the board as the class went back to their sleep.

"We've been stuck in this class forever!" Peter groaned.

"It's only been twenty minutes, Pete," Remus said.

"And in these twenty minutes I learned I bore easily," Sirius said.

"We could told you that a looooooong time ago," James mumbled.

"Let's play a game," Sirius suggested.

"Like what?" Pete asked.

Silence.

"I've got one!" James exclaimed. "It's called Kill-the-Idiot!"

"Ooh, how do you play?" Sirius asked sarcastically.

"Will you guys pay attention!" Lily snapped at them while Harry was trying to hold in his laughter.

"I'm hungry," Sirius said suddenly.

"Me too," Peter said.

"Me three," said James sullenly.

"So am I, but I'm not trying to annoy the heck out of everyone in this room," Lily said sourly.

"Then what are you doing?" Sirius asked curiously.

"Trying to decide whether I should strangle you or push you off a cliff into a valley of very sharp rocks."

"Oh."

More silence.

"I'm still bored."

The whole gang groaned while Harry grinned at his family.

"Not again," Remus muttered.

"You have no idea how tempting the idea of putting Silencing Charms on all of you is right now," Lily exclaimed glaring at Harry as he was laughing.

"Poor lad has lost it." Sirius exclaimed.

During Lunch Break…

"Hufflepuffs are the kind of people that I can imagine tripping down the stairs every day. I can imagine them getting up, fixing their wounds with magic, and turning around to walk promptly into a tree or a column or another Hufflepuff. I think their Common Room must have the general order of a pinball game." Severus exclaimed taking hold of Antonette's hand when he noticed nobody was around them to see.

"Sev, that was so mean! You don't really think that do you?" Antonette asked him.

"Mmm." Antonette noticed he hadn't let go of her fingers. She slid her thumb experimentally across his. He kept talking, but colored faintly, especially when they came outside in the sunny weather.

"Hufflepuffs remind me of bananas. They are yellow when dressed in their house robes and, though they are good people, you just can't say they're more than bland. Bananas are also good but even if you do like them, you can't really say they have more flavor than just plain bland. Bananas should be the Hufflepuff house animal, though a badger seems about as bland. I don't think anyone in that house would be able to tell the difference between a banana and a real animal. If they can, the banana should just be considered their house fruit." (-Winged Dragon)

"Whatever… so what, you think my sister is like that?" Antonette asked him.

"Your sister should have been in Ravenclaw, she's too smart for my liking." Severus exclaimed as the sat on a stoned bench by the Hogwarts stoned water fountain.

"What do you mean?" Antonette asked smirking.

"It must be a twin thing really. It's like she knows when something is going to happen before it does…" Severus exclaimed.

"That's not being smart, that's physic." Antonette exclaimed.

"You didn't let me finish… her whole mind is like a dictionary, she knows everything, and I mean everything." Severus finished.

"She doesn't know everything, she's just a sarcastic prat that wishes she knew everything. How she got in Hufflepuff I'll never know, it should be the other way around, I mean she's definitely smarter than me." Antonette exclaimed yawning and stretching.

"Ravenclaws are all incredibly gorgeous, or handsome, I guess, and crafty in a way. They're the people who always use their common sense. They're the kinds of people I can imagine growing up to be artists with their beatnik hats sitting in coffee houses drinking tall mocca lates.

Either that or they would be camp counselors who just can't get other jobs though they are aspiring artists and are trying to go to Oxford on some sort of scholarship that'll never come through. Or else they'll become math professors at some community college where they'll spend their time complaining about how they hate their job, but they'll never quit.

Ravenclaws are the people who die surrounded by friends and family in a very happy mode." Severus finished making Antonette laugh while he smirked.

"So what are you a seer now?" Antonette asked wiping her eyes.

"Nah." Severus replied looking at the fountain.

"What you Slytherins aren't around that range of talent?" Antonette asked with a sly smirk.

"Slytherins are the kind of people that I don't think say more than 'go to Hell' before they've had at least forty-seven cups of coffee and twelve packs of sugar in the morning. Slytherins would be best as gym teachers. There, they would get to abuse poor, defenseless kids with physical labor and get paid for it."

"You are something special Sev." Antonette replied grinning.

"So you say."

"I mean it, I just wish things had worked out with you and Aldrick before he as to leave tonight you know?" Antonette replied looking down at her shoes.

"What do you mean tonight?" Severus asked trying sound like he could care less.

"Aldrick is leaving tonight. Plain and simple." Antonette replied staring at Severus to see what his reaction would be.

"I didn't know that." Severus replied grabbing out a book to read.

"Severus Snape, you really need to stop this charade. Aldrick was the only reason that I had the courage to come and talk to you." Antonette huffed in irritation.

"How is that?" Severus asked eyebrows roused.

"I would always see you and Aldrick talking and making jokes… I never had seen you act that way around any other students, not even your fellow Slytherin's. Then I thought maybe it was the fact that Aldrick just simply didn't know you and you wanted to take advantage of that fact and became a totally different person that you never let anybody see. That's what I always saw in you since our first year in Hogwarts, but I never had the gust to talk to you because I thought you wouldn't be interested in somebody whom wasn't in you're ranks." Antonette finished, as Severus looked puzzled.

"And by all means whom do you think I consider to be in my 'ranks' as you call it?" Severus asked her.

"You, well… you're… you're always hanging around that Malfoy and everybody knows his whole family is dark. Practically everybody in your house is dark and wouldn't consider to be around anybody else that wasn't consider to be one." Antonette exclaimed.

Silence.

"Severus?"

"Shouldn't we be getting ready for the summer ball?" Severus replied changing the subject.

"I guess so."

Summer Ball…

The Marauders had just gotten dressed in their tuxs and were now waiting for Frank, Lily and Alice to come down to the common room.

Sirius twirled around the Gryffindor Common room, in his white tux as his arms flailing around wildly. His best friends, Remus, James, and Harry were watching him in amusement. The other component of their group, Peter Pettigrew, was off somewhere since he didn't want to come to the dance because he had no date.

"I knew we shouldn't have let him eat that chocolate bar," Remus said from the cushioned chair, returning his attention to his book.

James laughed joyfully, and asked Sirius, "What exactly are you doing?"

"Dancing, of course!" he said, still spinning with a certain grace that never left him.

"Yes, of course. Without music. Could you maybe take a break? You're making me dizzy." Harry exclaimed rolling his eyes as he played exploding Snap with James.

Remus quirked a smile at them, although he kept his gaze focused on his book. James could see, however, that he wasn't reading it. Sirius couldn't have noticed because he was increasing the speed of his 'dancing' gradually with each turn.

"Nonsense! I just need a dance partner!" He whirled around a few more times, heading toward the couch. He proffered a hand down to Harry, who looked up at him and raised his eyebrows.

"Dance with me?" he said before Harry could reject as he grabbed his arm.

"Remus! James!" Harry called for Remus and his dad's help as Sirius began to twirl him.

"Aww… wait let me get a camera!" James replied as he ran up the stairs to the boys' dormitory just as Sirius dipped Harry.

"I don't want to dance, Remus!" Harry whined.

"Come on Padfoot, let Blacknight go." Remus replied throwing a pillow at Sirius just as James came running back down the stairs.

"Aww man, I missed it!" James exclaimed as he watched Harry scramble away from Sirius.

"Are you guys really sure you like my hair like this?" Sirius asked fidgeting with his tie.

"Sirius, you don't need to be nervous… you've never been to a dance before?" James asked him.

"Yes… I've been to you're families dances a lot, so I would know thank you very much."

"Padfoot. Listen," comes the insistence. "Anybody you ask will say yes, whether you think so or not, you're like some kind of woman magnet and beside, you have Rose don't you?" Harry exclaimed sitting on the arm of the cushioned chair that Remus was sitting on.

"What about you Har, why didn't you ask anybody for the summer ball?" Sirius asked.

Harry just made a face.

"Fine, but what are you going to be doing, you bought a tux and everything." Sirius replied.

"I'll just watch you guys." Harry replied.

"Gee that doesn't sound boring." James replied sarcastically.

"Don't worry about it, I know what I'm doing. I'll be fine." Harry replied shrugging his shoulders.

Alice adjusted her dress as she and Lily walked down the stairs towards the common room where they could hear Frank talking with the Marauders.

Lily turned to see James staring straight at her. She flashed him a smile as he practically ran to come greet her.

"You look amazing." James replied like at her in enchanting red gown with golden hue that richly accented by a lovely butterfly print with a red silky matching scarf.

Lily blushed.

"Aww… thanks hun. You look incredible as well." James flashed her another smile as he took her hand.

"Since when do you call me hun?" Lily asked as she laughed.

James grinned as he led her to Sirius, Remus, Harry, Frank, and Alice.

Frank was twirling Alice around in her yellow sparkling strapless beaded organza dress.

"Is that a new dress?" Sirius asked Lily.

"No, it's the same one I had on a while ago." Lily replied sarcastically rolling her eyes.

Remus walked into the entrance hall along with the gang. Remus looked around for Desiree. She was nowhere to be seen. Again Remus tried again to scan the crowd for her just as someone tapped him on the shoulder.

Remus looked to see who it was.

"Hi Remus." Desiree said smiling at him wearing a sky blue Grecian style flounce evening dress in rich chiffon color with a diamond jeweled center brooch and beading throughout it.

"Hey." Remus looked at her. Her dark brown hair was drawn back into a curly messy bun; she was beautiful.

"Shall we go in?" Desiree asked as the others had already walked through the door.

"Oh, of course." Remus replied as they walked into the hall together.

All of the tables had been pushed around to the edge of the hall and there were plates and bowls of food and drinks. Seats were put all around the hall for all those who were tired of standing. The rest of the hall was a giant dance floor.

"Do you want to get something to eat? I'm starving." Desiree asked.

"Sure."

"Remus, why don't you try speaking more than one syllable to her?" Sirius whispered in his ear as he and Rose smirked at him.

Harry went and grabbed some food and sat down along with the rest of the gang. Everybody talked for what seemed like ages, or should he say the girls talked. Harry wasn't really listening that much. He was looking at someone else, someone with red hair and dark eyes, someone… wait a second. Ginny?

That couldn't be her, the girl was wearing a long black strapless dress with sliver roses sparkling everywhere and a long slit on the side of the dress. The girl had spotted him looking at him and smiled and was actually walking towards his way.

'That's probably somebody related to the Weasley's.' Harry thought to himself.

"Do you want to dance?" She asked Harry ignoring the others at the table.

"Oh, sure." Harry replied is she steered him in the middle of the dance floor.

A slow song came on and she and Harry started dancing.

"Are you ready to come home Harry." She whispered in Harry's ear.

"Ginny, I can't believe it's really you." Harry whispered back.

Ginny danced with such grace and beauty, Harry felt as if he were hypnotized, just watching her.

"Will you be alright?" Ginny asked waking Harry from his hypnotic state.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked her.

"Once you leave them tonight… will you be okay?" Ginny asked him concerned.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Harry whispered back to her.

"I think it's time for you to say your goodbyes then." Ginny said as they stopped dancing just as a fast song played.

"How-"

"Remus sent me. I have the stuff that's needed to get us back home." Ginny replied.

"Oh."

"Do you mind if I have this dance?" Severus asked Antonette.

Antonette was wearing a beautiful fuchsia color. Mixed with half black & pink with flowers decorated around it. Severus was wearing a black tux and had his hair gel back making it look smooth.

"Ok, I'll dance with you." Antonette replied in a sly smile.

They walked over to the dance floor and started to dance.

Severus smiled at her and Antonette smiled back.

Both Severus and Antonette started dancing for what seemed like forever. It was really nice, dancing with Antonette.

After the slow song, a fast one came on, but Severus insisted that they should still dance.

While they were dancing Severus spotted Harry talking to the Marauders and their friends while a girl that kind of remind him of Weasley stood next to him. Severus watched as Harry started hugging everybody at the table as they all looked quite upset. Severus felt kind of jealous of the Marauders. Severus looked at Harry and suddenly saw him stare back but then turned back to the girl who nodded her head as they both left out the great hall.

"I wonder where Aldrick is going in such a hurry?" Antonette asked as she noticed where Severus was staring.

"You guys, what's going on with Aldrick?" Antonette asked as she had dragged Severus along with her.

"Oh… he's leaving, going back to his home." Lily replied sadly.

"Why aren't you guys seeing him off?" Antonette asked perplexed, as Severus looked paler than usual.

"He didn't want us to… that girl he was just with is going to take him back home with a portkey and he didn't want a 'teary goodbye' as he said it." Frank replied.

"Then where are James, Sirius, and Remus going?" Antonette asked.

"What are you doing?" Harry asked the Marauders as they followed him and Ginny all the way into the forbidden forest.

"Here." James put his camera in Harry's hand.

"I haven't develop it yet, but I'm sure you'll like it once you see the pictures." James replied giving Harry another hug, only tighter.

"Well Blacknight… it was fun while it lasted, but we all know you couldn't stay here forever." Sirius gave Harry a hug also, "be brave okay?" Sirius whispered to him while Harry nodded on his shoulder.

"Moony." Harry replied smirking as Remus whipped his eyes.

"You're so emotional Remus." James replied whipping his eyes also.

"I'll keep in mind what you've told me Harry." Remus whispered to him. "Goodbye for now then." Remus replied giving him one last hug as Ginny brought out a glass ornament.

"Are you ready Harry?" Ginny asked him as Harry nodded a yes and held his hand out.

"Okay then one… two…th-"

"Hey Harry, is she your girlfriend?" Sirius asked just as Ginny said three.

"three!"

A/N Yea... I know it sucks, but what can I do.