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With barely any time left, a flustered Lily pushed open the door to the carriage that would hold the Prefect meeting. The six Ravenclaw prefects were the only ones in the carriage. One of the Ravenclaw prefects glanced upwards and seeing James, a look of confusion fluttered across her face.

"Why is he here?" She asked raising an eyebrow. James squared his shoulders and looked her directly in the face,

"I'm head boy." James replied. The Ravenclaw prefect seemed to ponder this thought in her head for a while before replying.

"I'm Kayla Jaggson, Sixth Year Ravenclaw prefect," James' expression suggested that he didn't really care. Lily gave him a look that clearly said, 'do something'. James reached for her hand and jokingly kissed it. Kayla giggled, whilst Remus looked embarrassed and Lily turned away towards the other Fifth, Sixth and Seventh year prefects from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Slytherin that were slowly filing in.

"Hasn't James declared his love for you yet?" sniggered an extremely rude Slytherin fifth grader, who had wittnessed the highly embarrassing "James walking along the Gryffindor table" incident.

"Shut up, you little wart," said James bluntly.

"OK, for all those who are new to the delightful world of prefect-ism, the main thing is," interrupted Lily, hoping to break up any fights before they started, "that you keep troublemakers in control, and that you suck up to the teacher."

Everybody looked at Lily with their jaws hanging down from their faces. Never had they heard the goody-goody Lily Evans say anything rude or offensive to teachers.

"Er, I'm kidding," she explained, for those too flabbergasted to say anything.

"Anyway," said James trying to break the ice, "mission one is to patrol the corridors for a bit, and just mind that the train ride goes smoothly. That's all that really matters for today. And make sure that nobody's picking on the first years, unless they deserve it," he added as an after thought.

"That's right, we want to make their first day as nice as possible," agreed Lily.

Everybody was still in shock, from the combination of James being head boy and the fact that Lily had just agreed with James, without her voice dripping with both venom and sarcasm.

"So, yeah. That's all we really needed to say, so, those of you who have been prefects before, please give our newbies a couple of tips, and then you can start peacekeeping and corridor patrolling. It's really fun. Trust me," said Lily with a wink.

Their lack of response, and the fact that everyone's jaw was hanging a meter off their faces, made it obvious to Lily how much she had changed over the summer holidays She hadn't been that uptight, had she? But then she remembered the feeling of having to please everybody, as if the weight of the world were on your shoulders.

The prefects were also impressed with James. Not once during the entire meeting had he tried to, a) propose to lily, or b) prank someone in anyway or form. What had happened over the summer? That thought was running through everybody's mind. It looked like they had balanced each other out. But surely that couldn't be the answer, they'd have to have seen each other over the holidays to have been able to balance each other out. And they can't possibly have seen each other over the summer. That's just ridiculous! Why Lily hates James' guts! That was just a well known fact.

"OK, if you have any questions, we're here for you," said James, wiping a mock tear of emotion from his eye.

James and Lily sat down on one of the couches casually, and started having a conversation. This did nothing to ease the intense stares of burning curiosity.

"What are we going to do about the stares?" whispered Lily, "How are we going to gently break it to everyone that we're seeing each other?"

"Um... how about bluntly and truthfully? YES I, JAMES POTTER, AM DATING LILY EVANS!" he roared in a fifth grade Hufflepuff's ear.

"James!" she scolded, trying not to laugh as she saw the look of fear, shock amnd comprehension on the fifth grader's face.

"Jeez everyone, just piss off would you!" exclaimed James to the staring audience. A sea of stunned faces stared back at him and slowly everyone trickled out except for Remus. Remus looked up from a book that he was reading and said,

"You'd think people would have taken that article in the Prophet seriously, wouldn't you?"

The train ride had passed all to quickly. Apart from the occasional random snog fest, courtesy of Mary and Sirius, the occasional quick kisses between Lily and James, and Peter's "ewwwwwwww"'s the train trip was uneventful. Lily had in fact fallen asleep with her head in James' lap after the Rounds. James had been absentmindedly playing with her hair until Sirius started laughing and told him he was being a girl. In response James had merely rolled his eyes and Sirius, realising he would get no fun out of provoking him, excused himself from his 'activities' with Mary and started whispering excitedly to the other Marauders. By the time the train stopped three rolls of parchment had been used. As their voices grew louder and more excited Lily started to stir.

"What are you guys doing?" she asked sitting up and yawning loudly.

"Nothing!" Sirius reply was suspicious. Lily had a feeling that they were planning a prank. Deciding not to warn them against it, she shifted from her position next to James to the seat next to Mary.

"How long have they been planning?" She asked. Mary looked at her watch,

"About 45 minutes." Lily glanced worriedly at the guys.

"Any idea what they're up to?" Lily asked.

"Nope." Mary replied and they both exchanged frightnened looks.

"OK, everybody off the train," said Lily, walkign down the length of the train and knocking on each of the carriage doors. The train had stopped and she and James were not allowed off until they were sure that every other students had departed. "Hurry up!" she knocked again on one carraige and after a quick mental debate, pushed the door open. A group of Slytherins accompanied the carriage, not making any effort to get up.

"Ohh it's the mudblood." One sneered and the others started laughing. Lily ignored their comments,

"You have 1 minute to get off this train before I start using force." One of the Slytherins pretended to be afraid.

"Ohhh! What you gonna do? Huh? Punk!" In less than a second he was upside down and was turning blue. The other boys, realising that Lily was being serious started to pack away their belongings under Lily's watchful eye.

In 10 minutes, the train was empty and James, Lily, Mary, Sirius, Remus and Peter were riding in the last carraige towards the castle. Upon walking in to the Great Hall they were met with a great hush that had originated from their arrival. It was obviously quite a shock to every single student that Lily, Mary and the Marauders were getting along. Lily glanced towards the staff table and met Dumbledore's gaze. He winked and Lily blinked in response. Had he known? She thought before shaking her head and dismissing it as impossible.

As the six settled into their seats, Professer Mcgonagall led the very nervous first years into the hall. A few 1st years were glancing around for older siblings, others were staring ope mouthed at the ceiling and others were simply staring at the floor and obviously hoping that they could just get this over and done with. 20 minutes later there were 4 new Gryffindor girls, Maddelyn, Sarah, Gretel and Adelaide and 5 new boys Kyle, Sam, Thomas, Jonathon and Trent. Lily had welcomed them all whilst James nad Sirius had said "Boo!" to at least three of them in greeting. After Dumbledore's long speech about sticking together against Voldemort, he had glanced at some of the Slytherins, and his few words about new teachers, he moved onto introducing the new Head Boy and Girl. The students that hadn't heard the news, were all equally shocked and James, who lapped up all the attention and Lily, who had smiled slightly before sitting back down

No one noticed James, Sirius, Remus and Peter extract their wands and inconspicuosly point them at the Slytherin table muttering a word in the process.

Shriaks and screams of horror eripted as the Slythgerins proccessed what was happening. Their empty goblets had started squirting pumpkin juice at them. None of the students in the other houses could control their laughter. A couple of Slytherins who has seen what was coming, had quickly ducked under the table, but most were now drenched in sticky juice.

Lily felt a wave of naseau about to hit her full blast when she saw Severus looking at her with a pained look in his eye. She yearned to reach out to him. To protect him. Was it to late? She didn't know. He had chosen his way and she had chosen hers. She wanted nothing less than to get mixed up with the crowd he had chosen, she knew for a fact that they were all planning to join Voldermort as soon as they left school, but was it so wrong to want to be with Severus? He had been the one to introduce her to the wizarding world, afterall. She knew James would never allow it, but he didn't own her.

"SILENCE!" roared Dumbledore. Everybody fell silent.

"James Potter and Sirius Black!" shrieked Professor Klopspock, the herbology teacher.

"Now now Jules, we have no proof it was them. And remember, innocent until proven guilty. Now I suggest that the Slytherins dry themselves off, and we begin the feast. And a warning to whoever caused this mayhem, this is no time for fooling around, not with Lord Voldemort more powerful then he's ever been," said Dumbledore solemly.

After a massive meal of all types of food imaginable, and a few disgusting displays of Sirius' ability to eat mope food than physically possible for the avarage human being, the feast had come to an end. Although James was quite satisfied with the results of tonight's prank, Lily had a bone to pick with James about the seriousness of his actions. She was determined that he should be taking this more seriously. Whilst Peter was absolutely chuffed with himself for, yet again, being included in James and Sirius'plans, Remus was feeling a little guilty. He knew that not all Slytherins are evil. And not all evil people are in Slytherin.

"Now, off to bed, all of you,"said Dumbledore. Not unkindly, but sternly enough so that people took him seriously. Lily had almost forgotten about the conversation that she had been planning in her head, but she remembered it as soon as she saw James and Sirius laughing and whispering. She couldn't believe that Dumbledore had let them get off so easily!

Lily followed James up the many corridors and stair cases that belonged to Hogwarts, not helping but remembering the feeling of home she had always felt at Hogwarts. She followed James into the common room and blocked his way just as he was going to bed.

"James!"

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