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Chapter 69:

James never did find out who had pranked him. He had tons of suspects but none of them made sense. It clearly wasn't a girl – so that automatically took out fifty percent of the students. He'd considered Snape – after all it had caused Lily to hate him – but that was impossible because Snape would be too jealous. You could pretty much remove anyone with a girlfriend from the list of suspects. James highly suspected that it was one of the other marauders – it had marauders written all over it. He tried asking each of them about it but they all denied responsibility for the prank. James knew that he'd find out one day but in the meantime he just relished the fresh memories the experience had allowed him; Evans on his lap, kissing him on the library floor… It isn't a bad mental picture, he thought to himself.

The marauders continued to work on their transfiguration spells. Professor McGonagall had really noticed a difference in each of the four marauders, "James – I thought you were good before but you have proven that when you exert yourself you aren't just good – you could genuinely be superb at Transfiguration. You really ought to take it at least to O.W.L. and perhaps even N.E.W.T. level."

Remus, although not needing to learn the spells enjoyed trying a few with his friends. It really helped him with his incantation in class and the use of non-verbal spells had given him a chance to show off in charms – something he rarely did. Sirius had enjoyed the fact that he was now second from the top in Transfiguration class particularly when Lily Evans looked so depressed by the fact that he was better than her. He'd also used his new non-verbal spells on a few Slytherins in the corridors – and because it was non-verbal no one could prove it was him. James had of course told him that that wasn't in fact true as there was a spell that would tell them his wands last spell. Sirius wasn't sure if James was just messing with him for his prank – that had been so funny and some seriously good magic to boot. Peter was the one that had improved the most. He was so much more confident in classes now. His professors were offering him point after point because he had improved so much with the aid of his friends.

Peter had to work a lot harder than the other marauders to achieve the spells but his friends were willing to help him and never stopped encouraging him. "Come on Pete – you can do it!" James smiled as he watched the boy try harder than he'd ever tried before. Harry watched his father encourage Peter. He struggled to see Peter as his father's friend – to him he would always be the coward who broke his father's trust. "Humana ad aranea TRANSVERTO!" Soon there was a spider scurrying on the ground. James clapped, "Fantastic!" He pointed his wand at the spider, "aranea ad humana reverti." Peter was sat on the floor where the spider had been seconds before.

"I did it!" Peter jumped to his feet excitably, "I did it James!"

"Well done, Pete. Now try doing it non-verbally," James encouraged.

"I can't – I suck at non-verbal spells."

"No you don't! The simple fact that you have managed to do a single non-verbal spell is incredibly. We learn them in Sixth year you muppet."

Peter smiled, "I guess I could try." He pulled a face that sort of looked like he was constipated. James forced himself not to laugh. Ten minutes later there was a spider running around on the floor again.

"Aranea ad humana reverti," James clapped his hands. "That's great Pete. Make sure you learn your untransfiguration spells too. Obviously when you are a spider it's a bit challenging… but you need to know them."

"Thanks James," Peter smiled, "I can't believe this. You are a pretty swell teacher."

"MY TURN!" Sirius rushed over. "humana ad dinosaurum TRANSVERTO!" Sirius began to change shape. His skin changed colour and his eyes grew. Before James could stand up there was a dinosaur in his bed room.

"Shit!" James and Peter both said allowed.

"We need to transfigure him back before he eats us," Peter began panicking.

James merely picked up his wand and non-verbally incanted dinosaurum ad humana reverti. Sirius breathed, "Wow that was cool – I was a dinosaur!"

James laughed at his best friend's excitement, "you crazy fool."

With the end of May came the beginning of June. Lily quickly realised that exams were approaching and retired to the library for a month of revision. At first her friends had worried until they realised that Lily Evans was of an unusual calibre and that there was absolutely nothing they could do to stop from revising. They had thought briefly about joining her in the library but soon realised that the sunny grounds were far more fun that the old stuffy library. James and Sirius were working harder than ever in Quidditch practice as the weekend's match approached. Between their animagus training and Quidditch practice, James and Sirius were really struggling to fit time in for homework. They spent whatever time they had working late into the night in the common room on whatever essay their professors had given them. Holly and James were getting on well as usual. They hadn't gotten fed up of each other's company nor had a massive argument. She still didn't know about James' secret trips to the secret garden and James had no intentions of telling her. James had successfully managed all the spells in the books both verbally and non-verbally. The problem was that the books didn't tell him what the next stage was – instead of worrying about it, James decided to help the other marauders catch up.

Lily and James had argued several times – usually because James had annoyed Lily during her "revision" time. Each time it had been accidental but with each new situation the consequences became graver. Lily was no longer speaking to James at all. James sighed whenever he thought about it. It was as if they had magically gone back in time to last year when she had absolutely hated him. This past year they had both tried to get on for the sake of their friends. However, the truce seemed to have ended and with it all civility had vanished.

There was an anticipatory tension in the air. James knew that it was partly due to the upcoming Quidditch match but he also had a bad feeling that it also had a somewhat more sinister cause. James found himself watching out for the Slytherins misbehaving or anything unusual for that matter, more than he ever had before. He knew something was coming – he just didn't know what.

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Next Couple Of Chapters...

1. QUIDDITCH - the final quidditch match of the season...

2. Animagus Stuff... need more books...

3. Something BIG!

4. Revision...