JAMES' POV***
James sat in the kitchen with Dot his house elf, eating a large plate of pancakes smothered in butter and chocolate sauce because he hated maple syrup, gross. Dot bought over some strawberries and bananas that James happily plopped onto his stack.
"Quite an appetite you have today master James," she said brightly.
"Well, I'm off to Hogwarts today and for some reason, Dumbledore made me Head Boy this year? Strange right? With my track record, I'd have thought I'd be last on the list?" James shrugged.
"Surely not Master James, you are quite the leader are you not?" Dot smiled.
"According to Dumbledore, he thinks it'll give me more responsibility and a newer level of maturity. Almost hurt my feelings actually," James said jokingly.
"It's the end of an era I tell you!" a voice yelled from upstairs.
"Oh shut up would you?" James laughed.
Sirius came down the stairs in a dark black dressing gown, hair a mess and eye's harldy open.
"You're not going to be pulling pranks with the rest of us now? Not when you're supposed to be implementing the ruuuuules," Sirius mocked.
"Of course I will! You've got a man on the inside now,"
"Double agent. I like it," Sirius said sitting down at the table as Dot placed a plate of pancakes in front of him.
"Thanks Dot! I'm gonna miss these pancakes," Sirius said sticking his bottom lip out.
"They'll be right here when you get back master Sirius," Dot said bringing Sirius some strawberries and banana too.
"Have you packed yet Padfoot?" James said raising his eyebrows.
"Nope," Sirius said looking unfazed.
"I'm not going to risk being late today you know. I leaving with or without you in an hour. I want to get a good compartment before they're all taken. Plus there's some stupid meeting with all the prefects and the Head Girl," James explained.
"Ooooh, Lily Evans that's right! Leaders of the school," Sirius teased.
"We don't know it's Lily yet? Not that I doubt she's got it but… We'll see if she keeps the position once she realises I'm Head Boy," James laughed.
"This is your chance Jamsey boy. You'll have her chasing you by the end of this year, surely!" Sirius said still stuffing his face with pancakes.
"We'll see Padfoot, we'll see," James smiled.
Lily and him hadn't had the best of friendships. Snape didn't make it easy. They were friends for about a week before James and Sirius had tied Snape's shoelaces together in potions, causing him to fall and bring their cauldron and its contents down with him. Lily was not impressed and every since then her and James had not gotten along. Especially because they were such good friends and all James and the rest of the Marauders, besides Remus usually, would play pranks on him.
It wasn't until last year when Snape snapped at Lily and ruined their whole relationship. James may have been the root of why their friendship ended but, when it came down to it… Snape had made his own bed, and now he was sleeping in it.
"Come on then mister 'I'm leaving with or without you' get a move on," Sirius said, putting his plate in the sink.
"Oh shut up," James said placing his own plate in the sink and following him upstairs.
"This is embarrassing, I'm so early," James thought to himself.
James sat in the front train car where the prefects and heads met at the beginning of every year before they arrive at Hogwarts. James sat rather nervously in the carriage fiddling with his fingers and occasionally his tie. Once he realised how silly he was being he took a deep breath and relaxed a little. Slouching slightly and leaning on the window.
Not long later, the carriage door opened. In walked in of course Miss Lily Evans, the beauty herself. She obviously assumed she'd be the first here and was startled by James.
"My Merlin Potter, what're you doing in here! You're not allowed," she said frowning at him.
"Well actually-," James was about to explain that actually he was Head Boy but thought he'd have bit of fun with Lily.
"Well what, spit it out," Lily encouraged.
"I- I'm just here to see Remus, I need to talk to him and I knew he'd be here first," James recovered.
"Can you not wait until after the meeting," Lily said sitting on the seats opposite of James.
"Unfortunately no, it's quite important," James said smirking.
"What on earth could be so important that you can't wait another 20 minutes," Lily shook her head in annoyance.
"Wouldn't you like to know," James teased.
"I really couldn't care less," Lily snapped.
"I'm sure you couldn't," James added. Once Lily didn't reply he tried to spark another conversation.
"So, you're Head Girl this year huh?" James asked.
"What makes you think that?" Lily asked raising an eyebrow, obviously trying to bait James into saying she was the obvious choice. But James just laughed.
"Your badge, Evans…" he said with a smug grin on his face.
"Funny Potter, so observant," she said dismissively, while taking out a book.
"Something you don't seem to be Evans," James said avoiding eye contact playfully.
"Excuse me-" Lily was cut off as Remus walked into the compartment.
"Remus!" James said embracing his friend.
"Hey James, nice to see you too," Remus said smiling at his friend.
"Hello Remus," Lily smiled. Her eyes lingered to his robes and she frowned when she didn't see the Head Boy badge.
"Wait a second. You're taking the news very well Lily? I thought you'd be searching for Dumbledore and complaining by now," Remus laughed.
"Complaining? About what?" Lily looked confused.
"Um.. You know, that James is-" James cut him off.
"THAT, that I'm hanging around that's all," James tried to cover up gingerly. Remus looked at him quizzically.
Lily frowned and her eyes wandered to James' robes and her eyes widened in shock. It took all of James' strength not to burst out laughing.
"Very funny Potter," she spat.
"What's so funny Evans?" he asked intrigued.
"That is not real. Or it's Remus' or anyone else's but yours," Lily said frowning and studying James' expression for any sign that he was pulling a prank.
"What's not real? Oh, you mean my Head Boy badge. Well I'm afraid it is mine Lily darling," James smirked.
"Bullshit," Lily protested.
"Lily," Remus laughed shocked at her language. Lily hardly ever swore.
"You can't be Head Boy? I thought you had to be a prefect for at least a year?" Lily said frustrated.
"Apparently I was just too good to pass up," James said with a hand on his heart mockingly.
"More like Dumbledore's gone mad," Lily said through clenched teeth.
"So harsh Lily, I thought you'd be thrilled by this news," James said with an annoyingly smug look on his face.
"Whatever Potter, my skills in ignoring you are extraordinary. I'll be fine," she said dismissively and opening her book.
James and Remus just looked at each other, a little shocked of how well she took that news. James assumed she would run off and find someone to complain to, maybe start a petition to remove him from the role… But a 'whatever' with little protest is not what he expected? Was this a good or a bad thing?
As the rest of the prefects filed in and joined them, many congratulated both James and Lily on their position as Heads. All besides Severus, who sat as far away from both of them as possible. They were soon joined my McGonagall who went over the rules and how we should enforce them. James couldn't help but smile a little as he'd basically broken every single school rule and he was still Head Boy. Over Snivellus especially, he thought that was hilarious. As Mcgonagall was finishing up, she let Lily and James know that they were to do their rounds together and that they were to create a roster for all the other prefects before the end of the week. Lily wasn't too happy about the fact that the Heads were to do rounds together, but Mcgonagall insisted she deal with it and get on with business. Once dismissed, James, Remus and Lily headed to their compartments, Lily rushing into hers before James could say anything else to annoy her.
James opened the door of their compartment to find Sirius and Peter fast asleep, their bodies completely covering the seats on either side of the compartment.
"Should we let them sleep and find somewhere else?" Remus asked, half serious, half not.
"I say we join Lily's compartment," James said with a smile.
"I don't know if that's the best idea you've come up with," Remus raised an eyebrow.
"You just know Mary will be in there and you'll get all nervous and shy," James teased.
"Oh shoosh, would you? I'm not as pathetic as that, Merlin," Remus defended himself. He and Mary had always had this underlying thing for each other, but they were both so shy and polite to ever make a move. The last Hogsmeade trip of the year before would've been the prime opportunity for Remus, but unfortunately he bailed last minute and claimed he was sick. The rest of the boys obviously didn't believe him and were giving him a hard time because of it ever since. This year, Remus knew he had to do something or he'd probably never see Mary again.
"Come on then, mister confident," James said, closing the compartment door.
"Lily won't be happy," Remus said as they approached the door.
"Marlene will help me out, surely. She'll convince Lily to deal with it," James said with a wink.
"That's true, luckily enough for you, she somehow see's a good side in you," Remus laughed.
James rolled his eyes and opened the door to see Marlene, Mary, Hestia and Lily in deep conversation.
"It's absolutely ridiculous!"
"What's so ridiculous, Lily dear?" James asked taking a seat next to her.
"What're you doing in here, get out?" Lily said frowning.
"Sirius and Peter are fast asleep and covering our seats, rather than wake them I thought, you lovely ladies would much prefer our company," James said.
"Wow, it's our lucky day," Marlene said sarcastically.
"Lily's day just keeps getting better and better," Remus laughed, which gained him a scowl from Lily. Remus avoided eye contact and sat next to Marlene.
"You guys excited for our last year?" Hestia asked.
"I'm pretty excited, are you pretty excited Lily?" James continued to taunt her.
"Okay, James come on. I think that's enough of the teasing. We get it, you're Head Boy, Lily's annoyed, can we be done with it now?" Marlene stated.
"Maybe, depends on how long it stays satisfying to say," James grinned.
Marlene just gave James a look of, "Come on, I'm trying to help you".
"Okayyyyyy, I'll try to stop," James said folding his arms and acting like a disappointed child.
Conversation continued on in the train compartment, mostly between everyone but Lily, who obviously was not happy with how her year was starting. Luckily for her, after about half an hour, Sirius came looking for James and Remus and begged them to never leave him alone with a sleeping Peter ever again.
Hogwarts wasn't too far away now, and James was excited to see his second home again. As the train pulled into the station the marauders stayed a little while, just to let the majority of the students off and out of the way for them to get off the train with ease.
As James looked out the window, the girls had seemed to take the opposite approach of getting off the train first. As they got onto the station platform all of the girls headed towards Hogwarts in a hurry, while Lily stood dead still as other students poured out of the carriage, going around her like a river around a rock. James frowned in curiosity as he observed Lily's strange behaviour. She seemed to look down at her feet for a few seconds, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "What is she doing?" James thought. Her hand raised to her eye, and looked as though she had just swiped a tear away? Was she really that upset about James being Head Boy, surely it wasn't that. Maybe he'd pushed the jokes too hard.
"What could be wrong with her, I thought she had everything she ever wanted now?" James frowned.
She shook her body slightly and caught up to the rest of the girls who were looking for he beyond the crowd, and James' eyes wondered back into the train compartment.
"Well, ready for the best year of our lives boys?" Sirius said in a chesty voice.
"Let's make the most of it, shall we lads?" James said, as they walked out of the train on to the Hogwarts platform for their last year as students.
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