NOTE: Where it's O. it means O.W.L.s.

I don't know why but when transferring files, it automatically is changing O.W.L.s. to O.

Also, I am very very sorry for the poor grammar in the fifth-year part, I had written it three years back, and I wasn't so good at typing at that time. I will update and improve the chapters once I have finished this book. Sorry for that.

The chapters will become longer and will be better written from where the sixth year begins. The fifth year is mostly just background building of the story.


Potter has always loved his parents' home but not as much as Hogwarts, so coming back to Hogwarts feels like coming back home.
This year ahead was going to be a challenging one because of three factors:
1. He, Sirius, and Peter were in the final stages of becoming an animagi, the final month and the most crucial one. They have to perform the Patronus charm and only after that will they become animagi (the first transformation is complex and can go severely wrong ).
2. Lily Evans has yet not said 'yes' to 'going out with him, which seems the most difficult task now as it seems she hates him, but James knows better that she likes him and he loves her ( those green eyes, the red hairs, that infectious laugh, that anger face, the freckles... ).
3. It's O. this year (James' least problem).

Anyways, the start of the year feast has begun and the sorting is over.

And the Marauders are ready with their pranks. James sees to his left and nods to the other three boys, they all take out their wands and hide them under the table all four of them mutter the spell, and with a bang four animals (a lion, a badger, an eagle, and a snake) shaped firecrackers rise high in the air and began fighting till only the lion remains and it also slowly starts fading away with a roar and sparkles start falling. Everyone including teachers and even Dumbledore starts laughing and clapping ( except Filch who has an angry face ).

James turns toward Lily who was also laughing and talking to her friends when she turns towards James and their eyes meet, James smiles at her and for a few seconds, she returned the smile and turned to face her friends again. James' heart rate began to increase and he turn to his friends to tell them about the incident but they discarded this by saying he was imagining things and continued eating their food, but James got lost in his dreams of the green eyes and didn't notice that the feast was over.
When they started to go to their dorms Remus didn't join them as he was prefect this year along with Lily this meant that James will not be able to see the green eyes until tomorrow.
When they reached their dorms they decided to plan further pranks but fell asleep the instant they reached their bed.
The next day when the Marauders reach the great hall for breakfast, James' eyes instantly found the red hair girl who was talking to Minnie ( nickname of Prof. McGonagall ) who was handing out schedules to the Gryffindors. The Marauders sat down at the other end and started their breakfast.
When Marauders reached the potion classes they occupied the last table and James' eyes started scanning the class and settled on red hair girl who was sharing her table with a greasy-haired boy whom James hated very much ( and a little bit jealous ... ok a lot jealous but he will never admit it).
Slughorn began the class and started lecturing about O. and their importance after listening to Slughorn for 1 minute James started looking at red hair and got lost in dreams until after half an hour Sirius forced him in playing hangman.
The rest of the day went the same way all teachers talked about the O. again and again so that all the 5th years were tired of the word 'O. ' by the end of the day.
When the Marauders reached their dorms they all wanted to rest but couldn't as they had to start practicing the Patronus charm and master it within 20 days.
"When was the last full moon ?" asked Sirius.
"3 days ago" shrugged Remus.
"Perfect, because by the next one, the Potion will be ready and we can transform into animagi," said James.
"But we haven't conjured our Patronuses yet ! " cried Peter.
" Don't worry Pete we will," said Sirius.
" yeah we will, " said James patting Pete.
Remus who was looking sad said " You all need not..." but was cut off by James " We are not having this debate again Remus, we have already decided and are in the final stage and we are not stopping now. "
Remus wanted to argue but thought better of it and got to his trunk and withdrew a book and started reciting instructions to the others about the Patronus before joining them in practice to accompany them and to keep up their morale.
But after an hour of shouting the spell and waving their wand, they were all exhausted and disappointed with no progress and decided to call it a day.
James was lying on his bed and his mind was split into two thoughts one was the stress of producing a Patronus.
He was the leader of the group and it was his idea to become an animagus. So, if they make a mistake in the process of becoming animagus it will have life-threatening effects, and let alone all the process was illegal and could send them in Azkaban it would be his fault.
The other was about Lily with whom he was not able to speak all day and was still confused about the smile the previous day, he thought of risking a chance again and asking her out maybe she has changed her decision about him and might say 'yes'.
Torn between these two thoughts he slowly fell asleep.


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