Chapter 11

Chapter 11

AN: So sorry I haven't updated in so long but i have been caught up in some of my other stories. Omg I passed 100 solid reviews, come on people get me to I50, and you know you want to make this lovely Author happy lol. Come on...I have cookies.

Recap:

Will you ever forgive me for doubting you?" Lily asked softly tears threatening to fall.

"Already forgiven." He said wiping her tears, but once again she looked at him doubtfully. "How about this, Lily will you be my girlfriend, no strings attached no jokes just me and you, we will take this slowly." He asked.

"Yes James I will." She said throwing her arms around his neck.

She felt freed, like some huge weight on her shoulders had been lifted. She had never been so happy in her entire life, except when she got her Hogwarts letter. Snuggling into James Chest she felt him place a soft kiss on her forehead and she sighed.

Minutes later they were both snuggled up on the couch waiting for their friends to come back and let them out, James realized that lily was asleep when he felt her breathing become even. Shifting carefully he moved them into a more comfortable position with Lily tight in his embrace.

Sighing he looked out the window at the moon, 'Is this what its like to finally have Lily in my arms.' He thought. 'I feel freed, weightless, like some part of me has been unlocked and opened up for the world to see. I finally have the girl of my Dreams, my best friends are all in serious relationships, what more could a man ask for.' He though.

With one last look out the window, he settled down with Lily closing his eyes and drifting off to a peaceful slumber with the girl of his dreams in his arms. No longer was she fiction but reality, she would be happy and that was all that mattered to him.

Hours later found Hermione once again pinned against a wall in the charms corridor by her ever handsome boyfriend, Remus Lupin, both of them completely oblivious to the going's on around them, least of all the currents bonds forming on the other side of the castle. Hermione, Remus, Sirius and Ginny had split up after they had left James and Lily in the classroom, they had decided to meet up three hours later to let them out and see if everything was once again ok between the groups of friends. Unfortunately, or not, Remus and Hermione had completely lost track of time, the pull of the moon was becoming stronger as the hours and days passed and they were taking every chance they could to be together, the only problem was knowing when to stop.

Thankfully they had devoted friends that were willing to do that for them and to help keep the in line before the full moon.

Sirius and Ginny were taking there duty very seriously and had decided to go find Hermione and Remus once they finished snogging in the empty DADA classroom. They had set out an hour earlier to find their missing friends so they could release their other friends before their classmates returned from class, but had become distracted when Sirius pointed out the obviously short time they had and the unquestionably empty classroom. Pushing Ginny's back over the desk and leaning over her, Sirius pressed his lips to hers, tongue flicking out asking for permission to enter, without having to wait Ginny's mouth shot open accepting his tongue with amusing eagerness. Finally coming to her senses as Sirius tongue exited her mouth Ginny remembered what they had been searching for in the beginning. Pushing Sirius away from her slightly so as to avert his wandering hands, she stood up straighter; back no longer bent over the table.

"What's wrong?" Sirius asked confusedly, reaching out to pull her closer to him again.

"We came here for a reason Sirius and if I recall it wasn't to snog. Now let's go find our wayward werewolves and release our little prisoners, Shall we?" She questioned taking a step away from her boyfriend and fixing her ruffled shirt where his hands had wandered as she went.

"Awe come on Gin, Remy and Mione can take care of the prisoners themselves." Sirius whined, pulling out his puppy dog eyes for back up.

Rolling her eyes she brushed past her boyfriend and out the doors of the DADA classroom without a single backward glance, she knew perfectly well Sirius would be trailing after her like a lost puppy. Moving through the corridors, Ginny and Sirius continued to search the castle for their friends, careful to avoid any teachers on their way.

Moving onto the transfiguration corridor Sirius deciding to mimic a spy film he had seen at James house once jumped around the corner ands in the shape of a gun. Not noticing where he was going he jumped straight into something hard and knocked himself to the ground from the momentum. Looking around curiously, to see what he had run into, he could vaguely hear Ginny's embarrassed voice cursing him from behind. His eyes landed on a pair of bright colored slippers, they were purple with bright orange and purple stars on them, looking upwards to see who they belonged to, his eyes landed on the amused face of his Headmaster.

Jumping to his feet he noticed Ginny move to his side shaking her head in exasperation before smiling up at the man before her and giving him a warm embrace. Cursing he remembered, not only was this man the headmaster but also his girlfriends last living relative. Shit.

Smiling in that oh-so-innocent way Sirius dusted him off, shifting his weight from one foot to the other he waited for his Ginny to finish hugging her grandfather. Seconds later he was back under the scrutinizing look of the century old headmaster, eyes twinkling merrily.

"Hello sir." Sirius greeted feebly. "Fancy seeing you here? Sorry about bumping into you by the way."

"Ah Mr. Black, Not to worry, accidents happen, but are you not supposed to be in class now?" Dumbledore asked with a bright smile, bouncing on the ball's of his feet.

"Uh about that, we were uh, just…" he stuttered trying to come up with a plausible answer.

"We were looking for Remus and Hermione Grandfather; they seem to have gone missing." Ginny said eyes sparkling with mischief, much like her grandfathers.

"Ah I see, well you might want to check the charms corridor, I saw them wander down there not too long ago. They were in quite a hurry as far as I could tell." He said merrily.

Snorting Ginny muttered something about 'Horny Werewolves' before thanking her grandfather and bidding him a good day. She proceeded to march towards charms corridor intent to break up whatever was currently going on between her two friends. A few minutes later Ginny and Sirius were standing at the entrance to the charms corridor staring at their two friends who currently looked as if they were stuck together by the lips. Covering his mouth Sirius tried his hardest to contain his laughter as Ginny marched forward tapping Remus on the shoulder to try and get his attention. Seeing no result Ginny stepped back away from the couple drawing her wand on their backs.

Back with Hermione and Remus, they were both still pressed against the wall, Remus becoming more and more uncontrolled as the seconds passed. Remus grinding his hips into Hermione as she wrapped her legs tightly around his waist pulling him closer than he already was. Hermione could hear something in the distance approaching them and was about to warn Remus before

He bit down on her neck eliciting a moan from Hermione distracting her completely from the people approaching. Too wrapped up in each other Remus and Hermione never noticed Sirius and Ginny standing in the Entrance of the charms corridor staring down at them, one trying to contain their laughter while the other was glaring furiously at them. Neither werewolf noticed the enraged Ginny stomping her way towards them.

Giving them a chance to redeem themselves Ginny tapped Remus on the shoulder waiting for at least a small reaction, but none came. Sighing Ginny pulled out her wand pointing it at her two friends and prepared to hex them. Counting to three, Ginny shot a stinging hex at the preoccupied couple, making them spring apart falling roughly to the ground. Laughing in the background Sirius fought to keep the tears of mirth from falling, he was just about ready to collapse with laughter at his friend's now sprawled position on the floor.

Glaring at their friends Hermione and Remus heaved themselves up from the floor while carefully un tangling there legs from each other. Standing facing their friends Remus and Hermione watched as they gained some of their composure and started walking away. Sighing in defeat they followed until they were back standing in the entrance to the charms corridor with Sirius.

"Nice of you to finally join us, guy's." Sirius said smothering his laughter.

"Stuff it Sirius." Hermione said pushing past the dog animagus and looking at Ginny.

Now what was so important that we need be interrupted, dear sister." Hermione asked.

"Oh, you know. Just the little fact that we left our friend locked in a classroom." Ginny replied conversationally.

"Oh fuck."

"Exactly!"

Taking off at a run the four friends ran back to the Gryffindor common room to release their friends before any of the other years decided to alert a teacher or try and break open the portrait hole themselves. Careful to dodge the moving staircases and trick steps they reached the portrait hole in ten minutes flat. The sight before them was not something they were expecting to see, there were at least thirty students crowded around the entrance demanding to be let it. Even peeves was hovering over the scene with water balloons ready in hand awaiting their targets.

Moving quickly they pushed through the crowd until they were facing the fat lady's portrait.

"See there they are." The portrait said pointing furiously at the group now standing in front of her.

"Oh pipe down." Ginny shouted as the volume of voices rose around her making it increasingly difficult to concentrate on the warded door.

With a small click the portrait door flew open revealing to most of the Gryffindor house James Potter and Lily Evans in a very intimate position. Cursing the pair jumped apart blushing madly, while failing horribly at throwing glares at their best friends currently smiling smugly at the door.

Within seconds there where whispers flying between students already spreading ludicrous rumors about what really happened in the common room between the two.

Lily finally having enough of the gawking shouted at them all to go along with their business, she was the head girl after all and that did have some benefits. When the common room was once again clear, save for a few students scattered in the corners doing homework and sorts, James and Lily approached their now worried friends with a menacing glint in their eyes that only meant trouble for the others.

It was two days since the incident with Lily and James being locked in the common room, and Lily was still a little sore about the whole subject, and refused to talk to all those involved unless necessary. The room of requirement was completely silent as three people sat around a large table surrounded by cauldron and ingredients. Ginny had managed to acquire most of the ingredients from the potions stores in the dungeon but was still lacking a few main ingredients. Placing the last ingredient on the table Hermione looked at Lily and groaned breaking the silence.

"Lily." Hermione whined. "You have to speak to us sometime if you want this potion completed on time for you." She finished pleadingly.

"Yeah Lily, it's not as if we done anything wrong. You and James are together now aren't you?" Ginny asked feeling smug.

"Yes we are, but that doesn't excuse the use of an obviously illegal potion on James and I." Lily argued turning her head to the side to avoid looking at them.

"It wasn't Illegal just not created yet." Hermione said matter-a-factly.

"Exactly what I meant it could have been dangerous."

"No it couldn't. We tested that potion multiple of times before we even came to this time." Ginny said ruining any type of argument Lily might have had.

"Fine, fine but I'm not happy about it." Lily said stubbornly.

"You don't have to be, just forget it." Hermione said smiling at Lily before looking down at the list in her hand and frowning. "There's three main ingredients missing from this." She finished looking directly at Ginny.

"Yes about that, the potion stores were all out off Dragon blood and lacewing flies." Ginny said slowly.

"And the toad stool spawns?" Hermione questioned.

"Ikindofdroppedit." Ginny mumbled ears turning red with embarrassment.

Groaning Hermione slapped her hand against her forehead in annoyance. "It could be weeks before we can get the last of these ingredients, and the potion takes two weeks to brew."

Lily who had been reading through her charms book looked up interested, when she heard Hermione groan. Closing her book and making sure to dog ear the page for later she picked up the list Hermione had left on the table examining it. It was the list of ingredients; though they were all crossed off save for three. Lily looked over at Ginny and Hermione a small smile on her face as she laced the list back down.

"I have lacewing flies in my private stores as well as a small amount of toad stool spawns" Lily said waiting for their reactions.

"Really?" Hermione asked brightening up. At Lily's nod Ginny tackled her to the ground nearly knocking the rest of the ingredients at the same time.

"Yes, I usually keep a small stock of everyday ingredients for safe measure or emergency."

"And the dragons Blood?" Ginny asked quietly after pulling herself from on top of Lily and moving into a sitting position.

"No sorry."

"It's ok I think we can convince grandfather to allow us to buy some, But for now the dragons blood is the last step so we could start the potion now and have the dragons blood for the last step in a week." Hermione said a distant look on her face.

"That sounds good."

While Hermione started the long process of making the animagus potion Ginny asked the room of requirement for a couple of pillows for them to sit on while she directed on what she had to do to find her animagus form. Sitting her down on the pillows Ginny told Lily to clear her mind of everything and search for her magical core. When she had found her core she needed to grasp it searching the light that was her core until she found a figure or animal. This animal would be a representation to her soul and would define everything about her in animal form.

Sitting on the pillow Lily did as told and closed her eyes, trying to recall what Ginny had said moments ago she cleared her mind of everything, and began searching. An hour later Lily let out a frustrated scream as she still had not come anywhere close to reaching her core. Every time she cleared her mind all she saw was darkness and it was becoming increasingly annoying. She had never had this much trouble with anything new before, so why now.

"Lily you have to calm down." Ginny said sighing. "Now what's wrong?"

"I can't reach my core." She whined.

Sighing Ginny pulled up a cushion next to her. Ginny knew that Lily had probably already found her core and that she was mistaking it for something else, since she had done the exact same thing when she had first tried to find her core.

"Ok, now I'm going to go through this with you step by step." Ginny said settling herself into a comfortable position.

"Ok, I'm ready."

"Now listen to nothing but the sound of my voice, I want you to forget everything going on around you clear your mind completely and Focus on me. Now don't panic, your sole in theory is a representation of you, or so they say. So a light wizard would have a light soul and a dark wizard would see nothing but darkness." Ginny said but paused to reprimand Lily as she gasped.

"I'm not saying you are a dark wizard Lily, but that your soul takes the form of whatever you perceive it to be. Now imagine your magical core as a small ball in your hand and visualize that ball in your hand. Can you see it? Good, now imagine your core was a vast plain surrounded by the mountains, a small spring and river. Can you see it? Good, now I want you to search the area carefully, remember this is your magical core, if you have an animagus form it will reveal itself to you here."

Lily listened carefully to everything she had been told and blocked everything but Ginny's voice from her mind. She had envisioned the ball in her hand and was surprised by how solid it felt, she really thought she had conjures a ball into her hand it was so realistic. Listening to Ginny she made the ball vanish and imagined her core would be a large mountain range complete with rivers, springs forests and everything she could think of. Looking around the clearing she heard Ginny's voice drown out as she stopped talking, and Lily took that as her cue to start looking around. Walking through the plain lily caught a flash of light from the side of her eye and turned towards the forest. Moving forward to investigate, this was finally the moment of truth and she couldn't wait. After this she would be able to begin practicing her transformation and would be on the steady road to becoming an animagus.

Walking silently towards the forest, she heard a small rustling in the bushes and moved closer to get a better look. As she came close enough she pushed some of the branches out of the way to get a clear view of the animal that was hiding. With a flash of sharp white teeth and claws Lily jumped back with a small scream landing on her bottom. She was staring at the beautiful animal in front of her in fear and awe. She just knew this was her animagus form, there was an undeniable pull towards it, and she just couldn't believe that the animal that best represented her was a …

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