(A/N): Hey Guys! So, another time skip. I've been working on this chapter for most of the day, so don't think that I've been neglecting it, it's just that I write very slowly. I hope you enjoy this chapter, and I thank you for all the reviews you have given me. Also, I want to thank the people reading this who haven't reviewed, because you're just as important as those who did.

I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.

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Leo

It had been a few months now since the others had coerced Remus into bringing them to the Room of Requirement to see them, so we all agreed to take breaks to hang out with them every now and then. Of course, it wasn't as good as it could have been, but we were still trying our hardest to become animagi, and that wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world.

"I'm just saying, I think you two should give up trying to become Animagi. I mean, you're only first years!" Remus told us, for the fortieth time that night.

"Yes, but unlike others, we are actually competent." Elaine snapped, having gotten tired of Remus's constant attempts to deter us from becoming animagi.

"Seriously, could you imagine James and Sirius trying to become animagi? No!" I added, to which he shrugged.

"I think they'd blow something up." Elaine commented, and I nodded seriously in agreement.

"And even Lily, if she tried, she wouldn't get very far because she's too dependent. If someone asked her to stop, and she wasn't completely, one hundred percent fixed on this, she'd stop. Unlike us. I was only like, 60% serious when we started this, and when you asked us to stop, we didn't. Why?" Remus lifted his head from the book he was reading to glance between us.

"Because you're both stubborn as a mule?" I glanced at Elaine and she shrugged as a response.

"While true, that wasn't really the response we were hoping for. You know why?" He shook his head this time, stumped. "Because you're our friend Moony. We weren't going to leave you out in the cold." Elaine told him, and I nodded confirmation.

"And we don't do this for just any of our friends. I wouldn't do this for Severus, though I'm still not quite sure whether he's a friend or not." I considered it for a second before shaking my head. "But that's not the point. You want to try and stop us, that's fine, but just know right now, that you aren't going to succeed." He stared at us, trying to see if we were completely serious before sighing and leaning back in his chair.

"Fine." Elaine and I high-fived.

"Yes!" We cried in unison, to which he rolled his eyes.

"It's almost seven, we should get back to the Common room to spend some time with the others, you know how they get." Remus suggested, and Elaine and I glanced at our watches quickly as if to check if he was telling the truth.

"Damn. I guess we'll have to wait till tomorrow then." We stood up, placing our books on the table before walking out, making our way back to the Gryffindor Common room.

"Hey Lils." I said as I flopped onto the couch next to her, Elaine dropping on the other side. Remus sat on the couch across from us, and James, Sirius and Peter raced over, jumping over the back of the couch to sit next to him.

"Hey Leo, hi Elaine." She said somewhat coolly, and I knew she was pissed that we hadn't been spending much time with each other.

"Oh Lilsy-pie, don't be upset with me please?!" I cried dramatically before wrapping my arms around her waist and burrowing my head into the side of her neck.

"Leo!" She yelled, startled, and by now everyone in the common room had looked at us and shook their heads, amused, before turning back to whatever they had been doing before we had disturbed their silence.

"Lilly-loo, no being angry with us!" Elaine cried as well before joining the hug, us grinning at each other smugly from either side of Lily's neck.

"Elaine!" See, Elaine had only recently gotten used to Lily enough to hug her, and it was still very much a shock to Lily whenever she did.

"Group hug?" I heard James ask, and I could feel Lily shaking her head furiously. At the last possible second, as James launched himself at Lily for a hug, Elaine and I flung ourselves backwards, leaving only James hugging Lily while the rest of us watched on smugly as he apologised profusely afterwards.

"Arses." He muttered, glaring at Elaine, Sirius, Remus, Peter and I for not joining in and stopping Lily from yelling at him.

"Aw, poor baby." Elaine whispered to me, and I grinned back at her before yawning.

"Little Leo's tired, is he?" James asked bitterly, his arms crossed over his chest.

"I haven't slept properly for three days. Of course I'm tired!" I snapped quietly before shaking my head. "Sorry." He nodded understandingly.

"Maybe you guys should go to sleep. I mean, we wanted to spend time with you, but if you pass out because of it I think we'll feel much worse about it." We three considered his suggestion for a minute before shrugging tiredly and heading for our dorms.

"Thanks. Night guys!" I said with a wave as I reached the bottom of the stairs, and they waved back.

"Night you three, sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite!" Lily called after us to which we murmured agreement.

Lily

"You think they're gone?" Sirius asked, and I nodded slowly.

"Alright, let's go!" James announced, taking charge and heading for the portrait hole. See, after months of Leo, Remus and Elaine disappearing for most of their days, we had decided to sneak into the room of requirement in hopes of finding out what the hell they were up to. As much as I hated hanging out with the terror twins and Peter, I had to if I wanted to figure out why Leo and Elaine had suddenly gone AWOL all those months ago.

"So, Lily-" James started as we reached the tapestry of the trolls trying to dance ballet, before I cut him off.

"No." He looked puzzled and frustrated.

"You don't even know what-"

"No." I reiterated, to which he sighed somewhat angrily.

"Whatever." He said, speeding up, and I simply rolled my eyes.

"Big baby." I muttered, and we reached the spot where we knew the room of requirement was.

"What now?" Peter asked quietly, and Sirius reached out a hand to touch the blank wall ahead of us.

"Now we do what Remus did." He closed his eyes and paced in front of the door three times, and slowly, a door appeared. We approached it, cautiously almost, and pushed it open, to find ourselves in the exact same Library we had been in last time, except now the books were on the table.

"Now, to find out what they were up to." We walked over to the tables before grabbing a book each and turning them over. I glanced at the title before looking to the others, who held up their books to show the same thing.

"Animagi? Why would they be researching that?"

(A/N): Oooh, so now they know! How will they react, and how will the trio react when they find out they know?

I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.

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This chapter has had very minor edits made to it on 25/12/22