Slowly but surely the students made their way down to the great hall for breakfast. The smell of a delicious breakfast seemed to wake everyone up. Professor McGonagall was already handing out class schedules to the Grryfindors. The Marauders, Lily, Marlene, Grace, Alice, and Frank were the last to receive their schedules. As they glanced at them they realized that they were quite similar. Except for classes that were optional such as Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, and Muggle Studies.

Monday's classes had gone by quickly. All of their teachers had given a lecture about how important seventh year would be because the information they learned would be included in their NEWTS. By lunchtime, Sirius had decided that he would hold quidditch tryouts on Wednesday night. He thought that the team should start training right away in order to win the House Cup. Even though Sirius was supposed to open up all positions other than his own at tryouts, all of Grryfindor knew that he already had a chaser and keeper. James and Remus , unofficially, had the spots. After lunch the Grryfindor seventh years headed to Defense Against the Dark Arts. This was Sirius' favorite subject. No one knew if this was because he hated his family, or just because he thought their teacher was hot. Professor April Johnson was someone Sirius always had his eye on. It was her second year teaching at Hogwarts. April was twenty-six, with long black hair, brown eyes, and chocolate brown skin. To Sirius' dismay she was already married, and she had just given birth to her daughter Angelina. For their first class, Professor Johnson gave a quick NEWT speech, and told the class to work on their patronuses

The marauders' patronuses were, of course, a stag, a dog, a wolf, and a rat. Alice and Frank had matching owls for their patronuses. Marlene's had been a golden retriever, and Grace many people couldn't specify. Grace, however, knew exactly what it was. Lily had always had a lioness as her patronus, but today it seemed to be different.

"Wow, Miss Evans. Your patronus is changing form," Professor Johnson stated.

"What exactly causes that?" Lily asked confused.

"Sometimes loss or sorrow, but usually love," Professor Johnson said causing Lily to blush, and Marlene, Grace, and Alice to stare at her wide-eyed. Soon class was over, and Lily ran to Arithmancy not wanting to talk to her friends about what had just happened. She conversed with Remus until the lesson began, and dozed off a bit while another NEWT speech was given.

The rest of Monday passed quickly. Lily successfully avoided her friends until Potions on Wednesday morning. Professor Slughorn wanted them to make Amortentia, which was the most powerful love potion in the world. When an individual smelled Amortentia, they smelled things that would attract them Lily had the potion done before most of the other people in her class. Over muddled fumes she could smell a quidditch pitch; it seemed to be coming from her cauldron. She then poured a small sample of the potion into a vial and placed it on Slughorn's desk. Slughorn smiled at her, and told her once she cleaned up her workspace, she was dismissed. Marlene had finished her potion too. She walked over while Lily was putting away her textbook.

"Wow," Marlene began, "great job on your potion." Lily smiled nervously. Marlene moved closer to her and began talking in a harsh, hushed tone.

"You liar," she exclaimed, "you don't have crush on James Potter. You-," Marlene was interrupted by clattering from the other side of the classroom. Peter had knocked over his cauldron, and it had soaked the four Marauders. The were all laughing, despite the fact that they were covered in a white shiny fluid. Professor Slughorn cleaned up the mess and dismissed them to go clean themselves up before lunch. Lily thought that the Marauders' distraction would be her only chance to escape Marlene's confrontation, so she grabbed her bag, and ran to the Heads dormitory. Unfortunately, someone was walking out of dorm at the same time. It happened to be another person she didn't want to see, James Potter. She ran into him; and literally bounced off of him. He helped her up, smiled, and walked off. She muttered thank you and ran upstairs to her bedroom and lay down on her bed.

Things between her and James had been extremely awkward since their run-in on Monday, but still even before that he seemed different. Perhaps it was the fact that he hadn't asked her out. He seemed more mature. Maybe being in love with James Potter wasn't the worst thing in the world.

James, Sirius, and Remus were walking down to the quidditch pitch for tryouts on Wednesday night. They were the last ones to arrive. When they arrived Sirius began to address the large group of people that were assembled by the bleachers.

"First of all," Sirius began, "I'd like to ask anyone who is not a member of the Grryfindor House, to please leave." Several Hufflepuff sixth ears scurried off of the pitch while gigging. "Damn Hufflepuffs," Sirius muttered so only James and Remus could hear. He then continued while James and Remus chuckled, "First I will have the Chasers try out, followed by beaters, keepers, and seekers. Beaters, keepers, and seekers, please take a seat." He turned to James and Remus and said, "That means you two also, you jackasses." James mounted his broom, saluted Sirius, and flew off towards the other chasers. Remus patted Sirius on the shoulder, grinned, and sauntered off towards the stands.

James outshone the other chasers, but Sirius was sure that the two others he chose were competent enough to perform alongside James. Sirius was glad he was able to chose Marlene for the beater position. He planned to ask her out after the next day, and he thought that choosing Marlene would improve her chances of saying yes. That wasn't the only reason he picked her. She kicked ass at tryouts. While trying to stop James from scoring she almost hit him in a place that no man would like to be hit. Remus was the only keeper who was capable of catching a quaffle so that choice was easy. The most difficult choice that Sirius would have to make was for the seeker position. None of them were spectacular, but because he was beginning training so early, he would have time to condition them to his standards.

"Alright everyone, I will be posting who made the team tomorrow morning, you can go," Sirius said and walked over to Remus and James. "I'm going to go talk to Marlene."

"Okayyyy," James said while grinning.

"Good luck," Remus added. Sirius jogged over to Marlene who was heading up the castle.

"Hey Marlene," Sirius said enthusiastically.

"Hi Sirius, what's up?" Marlene asked.

"I know there aren't any Hogsmeade trips for awhile, so if you're not busy, would you like to go on a date with me Friday?" Sirius asked.

"Sure," Marlene reply excitedly. "But Sirius, where are we going to go?"

"Oh, you leave that to me," Sirius grinned.

"Alright," Marlene replied.

"Now my lady, may I walk you up to the castle,"Sirius asked in an odd accent.

"Of cour-AHH," Marlene began in the same accent, but was interrupted by Sirius picking her up bridal style.

"Sirius, put me down," Marlene protested weakly.

"Now, I don't think so," Sirius replied smiling while shifting her onto his back. Marlene laughed as he ran up to the Grryfindor common room with her on his back.

The next morning Marlene and Sirius filled their friends in on their upcoming date. They were worried that Sirius would hurt Marlene by treating her like his other people Sirius dated could barely be qualified as girlfriends. He would song them a bit, and then ignore the and move on to someone else. This would be Sirius' first actual date. The Marauders thought he must really like her especially when the two were spotted hand in hand as Sirius posted who had made the Grryfindor Quidditch Team on the bulletin board in the common room.

Grryfindor Quidditch Team

1978-1979

CAPTAIN:

Sirius Black

CHASERS:

James Potter (Year 7)

David Diggory (Year 5)

Bilius Weasley (Year 5)

BEATERS:

Sirius Black (Year 7)

Marlene McKinnon (Year 7)

KEEPER:

Remus Lupin (Year 7)

SEEKER:

Emmeline Vance (Year 6)

Friday evening was the perfect night for a date, especially for what Sirius had in mind. He met Marlene in the Great Hall after dinner. She kept asking where they were going, but Sirius refused to say.

"Accio Cleansweep 4!" Sirius bellowed.

"Wow, isn't that the latest model broom," Marlene said.

"Yes," Sirius replied with a grin as he caught the broom that was hurtling towards them, "it is." Sirius mounted the broom, and patted the spot behind him.

"Would you like to hop on," Sirius asked in the same dumb accent he had used two nights previous.

"Of course," Marlene replied blushing while mimicking his tone of voice. Marlene sat behind Sirius, wrapped her arms around his waist, and placed her head on his shoulder. Sirius kicked off the broom. He flew over Hogsmeade, which was extremely quiet from its lack of Hogwarts population. They skimmed over the trees of the Forbidden Forest, and then hovered over the lake. Sirius stared at the crescent moon thinking how happy he was. Marlene was by far his favorite girlfriend, and he was glad they were taking it slow. They had kissed before, but this was different than any of his other relationships. Sirius was so detracted that he didn't notice Marlene shaking him as she nervously watched the giant squid emerge before the depth of the lake. However, by the time Sirius had noticed what was going on, the squid had already raised one of its giant tentacles and swatted Sirius and Marlene out of the air. They were knocked into the water; Sirius grabbed onto Marlene who didn't seem like the best swimmer, and pulled her ashore. Sirius was frantically checking if she was okay. Marlene seemed fine, but wouldn't stop laughing. She sat down under the large tree beside the lake. Sirius didn't know how to stop her so he kissed her. She put her hands around his neck and played with his hair while he put his hands around her waist, and slowly pushed her down on the grass. By the time the had broken apart, they were laying side-by-side with her hands entertained. They were looking at the stars which were shining brightly that night. Marlene kissed him good night and fell asleep with her head on his chest.

AN: FYI: David Diggory is Cedric's uncle. All Marlene and Sirius did was make out.

Thanks you Ginnyweasley124 and SiriusBlack345 for your help with this chapter.

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