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Lily climbed into bed and thought about the night's events. 'It's been a weird night. Very weird.'

'That's nice dear.' Replied her sleepy mirror.

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James climbed into bed and thought about the night's events. 'It's been a weird night. Very weird.'

'That's nice dear.' Replied his sleepy mirror.

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The next morning, James stumbled out into the common room half asleep, smiling to himself about a dream he had last night.

'Hi Potter.'

'Err… hi Lily! Whatcha doing here instead of going down to breakfast? Ahh… I see, you've finally come to your senses and realized that I am the man for you,' James Smiled.

'Ugh! In your dreams!' Lily thought, 'actually I want you to do a favour for me.'

'Anything.'

'Promise?'

'Promise.'

'I want you to promise that you won't tell anyone of what Sni…Snape and Malfoy were doing last night.'

'So the dream wasn't a dream at all…it was real…'

'You promised that you'll do that favour for me Potter, so now you must keep it.' Lily got up and crossed the room to the portrait hole.

'She's actually covering up for him!'

'And if you're getting any ideas, no, I'm not covering up for Snape or Malfoy. I'm making you promise because I really wonder how you would feel if the whole school knew what you did if you were in one of their positions.'

James raised an eyebrow.

'See you in class!'

The rest of the week passed in a bliss for Lily.

James's lips, on the other hand, were twitching to yell out what he saw during his first patrol duty.

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On Friday night's patrol duty, James was trying to come up with a prank to play on someone.

'I haven't played a prank all week and I really need to or I'm going to have a major mental breakdown out of lack of pranks! People are gonna think that I'm actually sophisticated and everything. I suppose I'll just have to play it on Padfoot, just to get in the mood.'

James came up with a plan and immediately set to work by sneaking into the Slughorn's, the potions master, private stores. James grabbed a murky brown liquid from a shelf and scurried away.

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On Saturday morning, Lily made her way to the Gryffindor common room to hang out with a few of her friends. She did homework, played wizard chess and chatted.

'I mean come on! I know that Dumbledore's a real genius and everything, but he appointed Potter as Head Boy!' Lily cried.

'Yeah, just think Lil, you may finally get along with James.' Malana Gorlena.

'Snap out of it Mal!' Ruth cried, 'He is a super big git who cares nothing but himself, the Marauders, and pranks!'

'Exactly!'

'Actually I think Black is a super big git who cares about nothing but himself, the Marauders and pranks. He is so damn annoying! Popping up the "will-you-go-out-with-me-Malana" question every Saturday!'

Just then, a fifth year boy came in and gave a message to Malana. 'Umm, Malana Golena?'

'That's me!'

'You've been told to go to McGonagall's office.'

'What did she do?'

'I dunno, I was just given the message.'

'Well…ok…I'll see you guys later.'

'Yup.'

'See ya.'

A few minutes later, Malana came back in.

'So, what did McGonagall want?'

'Oh I nothing much. Just stuff about… my grades...'

'Oh, ok.'

They continued talking about how much they hated James when the conversation turned to Sirius.

'Potter and Black a like, TWINS for goodness sake! They're like, I dunno, mega trouble-makers!'

'Hey! That's really not nice you know Lil.'

The girls turned and stared at her.

'What?'

'Did you just tell me that calling Potter and Black trouble-makers wasn't nice?'

'Well yeah, duh!'

'Errr… just a moment ago you said that you hated Black,' said Lily.

'Ya, well I changed my mind.'

'Which you do quite often and abruptly at times, but never this quick,' Ruth said.

'Oh, well.'

'Did something happen when you went out to meet McGonagall?' Ami inquired.

'No.'

'Did you meet anyone on the way there then?' Piped Ai.

'No! Now stop bothering me. Let's go up and wake Sirius up.'

'Err…ok… coming Ai?'

'Nah, I've got to hand this essay in and I haven't finished.'

Lily, Ruth, Ami and Malana trooped up the boys' dormitory, Malana leading the way.

'Have you ever been up to visit Black before Mal?' Lily asked.

'No, why?'

Ami answered, 'Because you like know you why up here.'

Malana shrugged, 'Instincts.'

Malana pushed open a door and the girls looked around the very messy room. There were shirts everywhere, undies lying around on the ground, and somehow on the hangings around the beds.

Malana made her way to the bed at the far end.

She got out her wand.

Pulled the curtain hangings away a little bit.

Flicked her wand at the huge lump in the middle of the bed.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light and Sirius was hoisted up, dangling in mid air by his ankle in his pink and white Barbie boxer-shorts.

'Rise and shine Sirius!' Malana sang.

The whole dormitory had woken up in a fright and Remus and Yoshi fell out of bed laughing.

Sirius cursed.

'Put me down Malana.'

Malana did so. 'I'll be waiting for you downstairs ok sweetie?'

'Yeah, alright,' Sirius mumbled.

When they got down to the common room and chose a table in the corner of the room, Lily asked, 'Malana, where did learn that spell, charm or whatever?'

'In a book Lil, where else?'

Lily sat back and didn't reply. She knew that Malana was lying and she could tell that her friends thought so too, judging by the looks on their faces.'

A few moments later Sirius came down and stood at the foot of the stairs leading up to the boys' dormitories. He scanned around the Common room and spotted Malana.

'Hey, Malana. Something has definitely changed about you.'

Malana flung her arms around Sirius's neck and said, 'Uh huh.'

Malana's friends looked away in disgust.

Sirius sat down on a chair and Malana sat on his lap.

'See Lily? Even your friend Malana can't resist one of the Marauder's temptation.'

'Shut up Black. Even if Mal,' she glanced at Malana who was twirling Sirius's longish black hair between her fingers and giggling,' likes you, it doesn't mean that I'm gonna fall for you.'

'I wasn't talking about you and me. I was talking about you and James.'

Malana giggled. 'Yeah Lil, you and James should really get together now. He loves you so much.'

'Mal, what's got into you? You know that I hate him and you even agreed with me!'

Malana opened her mouth to speak.

'Oh, no. Don't tell me that you've also changed your mind about that.'

'Well, Lily, I have. And if even if you don't agree with me then you should at least accept what I think.'

'Ok Mal…'

Lily and her friends sat the watching Sirius and Malana flirt with each other.

After about forty-five minutes, Lily and her friends could tell that Sirius was trying to snog Malana.

'Well at least Mal is trying to stop Black from snogging her. WHAT HAS GOT INTO HER? She has changed so dramatically in about three minutes!'

'Come on Mal, just one kiss.'

'I can't Siwius,' said Malana placing her hand firmly over his mouth firmly.

They kept that up for about ten minutes until Malana gave in.

'Fine the, just one. If I like it then we can go up to the astronomy tower ok?'

Sirius smiled. 'Ok.'

Sirius's lips were just a centimetre from Malana's when her skin started to bubble.

Lily dropped her book.

'OMG GOD MALANA! WHAT'S HAPPENING?'

By now the whole common room was quiet and staring at Malana.

'MALANA!' Ai screamed, 'MALANA! OH MY GOD MALANA!'

Ruth down next to Malana's chair and grasped her hand. In a calm but shaky voice she said, 'Ok Mal, can you hear me?'

Malana nodded.

'Can you speak to me?'

Malana answered in an unusually low voice, 'Yes.'

'Ok, we're gonna get you to the hospital wing.'

'No, I'm fine.' Malana answered. She also smiled.

'Malana…your hair that you were proud of is now black not brown…'

'And your blue eyes are becoming hazel…'

'And you're growing taller too…'

Lily, who was thinking about all these features of change and the bubbling skin, yelled out 'POTTER IF YOU EVER USE THE POLYJUICE POTION AND PRETEND TO BE ANY OF MY FRIENDS I AM GONNA KILL YOU!'

Everyone yelped at what Lily screamed out and the bubbling Malana smiled. 'Well, you guessed Lily, I am James.'

'JAMES, YOU IDIOT! WHAT WERE YOU DOING! HELL! I WAS ABOUT TO SNOG YOU!'

The Gryffindor common room was now very loud, ringing with laughter from every person.

By now 'Malana' was now James and he was smiling at everyone, in the centre of attention. 'I know Padfoot, that's why I didn't want to snog you. Then I finally gave in just as my hour was up.'

Sirius gave a string of swear words, which was silenced by Lily's death glare. 'One question Potter, where is Malana?'

'Oh, she's asleep in a broom cupboard.'

'You bring her back right now and explain to us what happened.'

James left the common room and arrived back with a very confused Malana.

James confessed that he snuck into Slughorn's private stores on last night's patrol duty and used the polyjuice potion from in there. He sent a boy in to call Malana out, pretending she had to see McGonagall. He ambushed her on the way there, gave her a sleeping potion, dragged her into a broom cupboard and plucked a few hairs out to add to the potion.

'Right,' said Lily, 'You can go help the third years with their charms homework. They seem to have difficulty.'

I give credit to my friend Alice who helped me with this during a lesson in the school library.

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