Remus didn't know whether to hate Lily for this or to thank her. Her schemes were very well thought out, perhaps it was best to thank her for the trouble she currently had to go through for Remus.
James' looked over to Lily, grinning like a puppy. Lily just huffed and looked to Slughorn again. Though, some on the other side of her could tell she was attempting to hide a smile.
"Yes, Lily. I've had something here as a prize for the student that makes the best potion, but unfortunately, not even a summoning charm could help me at the moment." Slughorn told the class, with a most disappointed look on his face. "Well, I'd have time to find it during another class. And remember, this is an advanced potion we're making. You may start immediately." Slughorn clasped his hands together and the students rushed to get the proper ingredients. Lily looked over to Remus as Sirius and James ran and shoved their way to the ingredients. Lily mouthed, 'you're welcome', gave Remus her best smile and turned to sigh into the empty cauldron.
"I'm back, moony." Sirius plopped all the Ingredients on the top of the desk and they got to work. The class was loud with orders and it felt calming and disruptive at once.
"I think it's done, moony." The grey-eyed boy said, as the potion turned a shade of pink.
Some peoples cauldron's bubbled, burned, bursted or exploded. The few people's potions that did not explode, were most likely not the colour it was supposed to be. Lily and James' potion was blue and foaming, and looked incomplete. James and Lily's bickering had caused them to forget about the potion that was being made. Lily looked angry and sad, and tried to fix the potion in time. Severus and Peter worked quite nicely, for natural enemies. Their potion was perfect in every way. Maybe Snivillus did the whole potion, Remus thought. Sirius and Remus' potion was ordinary, not too good or too bad.
A couple minutes later, Slughorn raised his voice and called, "Everyone, times up. Before you bottle it up, give it a whiff." He scanned the class, yet again looking dissatisfied, grabbed a bottle and took some of Severus' and Peter's potion. "Perhaps, it would be recommended if it's this one, please. We don't want anything going any more wrong, right?" and the class lined up, and went loud with the sound of sniffing. Remus smelt parchment, his mum's famous pumpkin pie and Sirius' hair. He was dying to take some of the potion to have for himself, but he decided against it, went back to his cauldron and bottled it and gave the potion to Slughorn.
"What did it smell like to you, Prongs?" Sirius asked as the group ate lunch.
"Evans. Everything Evans." James replied dreamily, grinning from ear to ear, looking down the table to find the beautiful redheaded girl. She looked over filled with rage and quickly turned her head back to her friends.
"Prongs, I think you destroyed her precious potions reputation." Sirius accused, watching the girl with James.
"It wasn't my idea to make amortentia and partner with Lily, although I had thought of it and it could've gone better." Prongs answered, huffing as Lily did beforehand and laying a hand on his cheek, losing his appetite.
"I'm up for something fun. Anything we could do after classes are done," James asked, sighing, "because I'm bored. And I'm not going to stop being bored unless we do something fun.". James pretended to fall asleep, and Padfoot leapt and said, "Prongs, if you want to do something fun, I've got a great idea!" James and Sirius ran from the gryffindor table and out the great hall. Lily had looked over from her group and saw Remus and wormtail, without James or Sirius, and came over to join.
Wormtail smiled shyly and Remus grinned.
"What are you two boys doing?" Lily asked, beaming at the two remaining marauders.
"I dunno. But I don't want Sirius and James in any more trouble, so I'm going to see what they're up to." Wormtail said, grabbing a cookie and speeding out of the great hall.
"Lily," The green-eyed boy started, looking over to his friend, "How in the world did you convince Slughorn to make the class make amortentia?"
"It took little effort, after all, I am one of his best students-" Lily paused, frowning, "at least I was before James ruined our potion." Lily huffed, placing both of her hands under her chin. "Anyway my plans had just begun." The gryffindor girl smirked. "Well, I've got to head to class now. Better earlier, I think." Lily looked over to Remus again and walked out the common room with three other people; Marlene McKinnon, Alice Longbottom and Mary MacDonald.
