Hey, this is my second James/Lily fanfic. A big thanks to Dead man walking for being a great beta.

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Chapter 1: Unexpected Surprises

“James, James, time to wake up.” a soft voice said in ten-year-old James Potter’s ear. James opened his hazel eyes and looked right into someone’s emerald ones. Ten-year-old Lily Evans was standing next to James. James sat up and ruffled his messed jet black hair, while looking at Lily’s auburn hair. Lily left the room as James stood up and looked around. His twin bed was tucked tightly in the corner, a wardrobe stood in the opposite corner while his desk was next to the head of his bed. James walked to his wardrobe and threw on some clothes. Since it was summer time, James and Lily both didn’t have school, and they happened to be best friends. Lily’s parent took a trip to France, so she stayed over at the Potter house.

“Good morning James.” called James’ mother, Scarlet Potter, from the kitchen when James sat across from Lily at the table. Mrs. Potter came in seconds later with two plates of breakfast, putting one in front of James and Lily.

While James was eating he was thinking about the fact that Lily and he wouldn’t see each other again. Since the Potter’s were wizards and Lily’s family wasn’t, James was going to the wizard school, Hogwarts, next school year. James had finished eating and stood up with Lily to go outside and walk around. James had considered telling Lily that he was a wizard, but he didn’t. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to but it was against the wizard law. Muggles weren’t allowed to know of the existence of wizards. Lily had noticed that James was barely talking and said something about it.

“I’m sorry Lils, I was thinking about other things.” said James.

“Like what?” asked Lily, curiously.

“Um,” James started. “Just the next school year.”

“Won’t it be great?!” asked Lily, she always loved school and did especially well. James nodded his agreement. “Oh, I almost forgot. What do you want for your birthday?” Lily asked. James had completely forgotten his birthday, which was in a week.

“I’m not sure, still having you as my best friend?” James replied without thinking.

“Why wouldn’t I still be your best friend?” Lily asked curiously as they turned to the next street.

“Because I won’t be going to the same school as you.” James said looking down at the pavement. James and Lily had been best friends since they could walk. And they had gone to the same school their whole lives. It also helped that James and Lily lived right next to each other.

“Your not?” Lily said, half shocked and half sad. James was afraid of this.

“I’m not, sorry.” James said as they approached the park. James walked up to a swing and sat down. Lily just leaned against the pole holding up the swing set, and stared off into space. “Are you okay?” asked James after a while. Lily sighed.

“I’m fine, I just can’t believe your going to a different school, how far away is it?” she said.

“Up north.” answered James, since Hogwarts was unplottable, no one knew for sure where it was.

“I could still see you after school right?” Lily asked hopefully.

“No, you won’t. It’s a boarding school, I will be back for the holidays though.” James added quickly when Lily looked, if possible, even sadder at losing her best friend. James stood up and walked up next to her. For only being ten, James was quite tall. Lily closed the gap and hugged him tightly. James hugged her back, thinking that he should just tell her so that he didn’t have to be sneaky about it.

“Lils, I should tell you something.” started James when Lily let him go. “You probably wouldn’t be able to go to my school.” Lily looked confused. “Because... because my family are wizards.” James said, closing his eyes, waiting for Lily to laugh at him. He opened one eye slowly than the other one. Lily looked at him shocked.

“Are-are you really?” she said serious. James looked at her wide-eyed, not daring to believe what she had asked. After a while he answered.

“Yes. Every young witch or wizard get’s a Hogwarts letter at the age of eleven. That is when you normally start performing magic accidentally.” Lily’s eyes had gotten wider and wider as James went on. “Are you okay Lils?” asked James, thinking that he had scared her. She closed her eyes and shook her head. Only when she looked back up at James, and stopped shaking her head, did she answer.

“I’m okay. It’s just that... well, odd stuff has been happening. Just before my parents left for France, my sister Petunia was climbing the tree in our yard, and she feel. I was so scared because I couldn’t do anything and because I thought that she would get really hurt. But somehow she slowed down, and she landed on the ground like nothing happened.” It was James’ turn for his eyes to grow wide. Lily was performing unrestrained, under age, magic.

“Lils, this means that you could be a witch!” said James happily. Lily just stared at him. “We should head back.” James concluded. They both started walking toward the street and back to James’ house. When he opened the door, James stepped in to see his mother, wand out, cooking in the kitchen. Lily was right behind him and Mrs. Potter had heard the door, so she quickly put her wand in her pocket.

“Lily knows mom.” James said as they closed the door behind them. Mrs. Potter looked alarmed.

“That still means that I can’t perform magic in front of her, she’s a muggle.” replied Mrs. Potter.

“But I think that Lils might be a witch.” James continued. Mrs. Potter really looked alarmed at that.

“How do you know?” she asked.

“Lily saved her sister when she fell out of a tree.” James said excitedly.

“Well, Lily, when is your birthday?” Mrs. Potter said.

“July 2.” Lily answered a little nervous.

“Well then, if you are a witch, you should get your Hogwarts letter on your birthday.” replied Mrs. Potter. James nodded to Lily and went upstairs. Lily followed seconds later. James sat down and beamed at Lily.

“What are you happy about?” Lily asked sitting next to him.

“That you might go to school with me.” answered James, smiling into space. Lily smiled also, but she had to wait two more weeks to know for sure.



James’ birthday came on June 27th ; which was a big deal. Lily had been staying at the Potters’ for two weeks now. James woke up and got dressed. He quietly made his way down to the kitchen, thinking that he was the only one up. He put one foot on the landing and jumped back as a big chorus of “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” greeted him. He smiled at his mother, father and Lily. There was a small stack of presents on the kitchen table. James walked over to it and pulled out the one on top, which was from his parents. He opened it and out fell new quidditch gloves. His father, Andrew Potter, had been a seeker when he had gone to Hogwarts. He unwrapped the second one, which was from Lily. She had gotten him a little figurine of a person on a broom. It was a muggle object since it didn’t zoom around the room like a wizard figurine would. James looked up at them.

“Thank you so much.” he said, hugging his parents and then Lily. Mrs. Potter got up and walked to the kitchen, bring back plates of pancakes for everyone. Once they were finished, a barn owl flew in through the open window and landed on the back of James’ chair, holding its leg out for James to take the letter. He untied it and the owl flew off.

Dear Mr. Potter,

We are please to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We await your reply by owl no later than July 31st. Enclosed is all your school supplied that you will need, and your ticket. Term starts on the 1st of September.

Sincerely yours,
Deputy Headmistress
Minerva McGonagall

James looked up at his parents and gave the letter to them. They read it through and smiled at James.

“James, this is great news.” said Mr. Potter. James beamed and got up, putting his dishes in the sink. Lily did the same and soon they were out of the house and walking down the street.

“Was that your Hogwarts letter?” she asked, interested.

“Yeah it was, I got accepted.” James replied. They had reached the park again and saw a boy around their age with oily black hair and equally black eyes. He scampered off as they approached him. They both just looked at each other and continued to the swings.



The week flashed by and soon it was Lily’s birthday. Which was much awaited by Lily, since she would find out if all the weird stuff she had been doing was magic. Lily unwrapped all of her presents, which consisted of a photo album from James, with pictures from when they were little to a week ago. A story book she really wanted from Mrs. and Mr. Potter. Her parents were going to give her their own party when they got back. A snowy owl flew through the window and dropped a letter at Lily’s feet. She bent down and opened it. It said the same thing as James’. She smiled from ear to ear at the Potters’.

“Lils! You got in?” asked James happily as she nodded frantically. She threw her arms over his shoulders and hugged him in joy.

“Well, this means that you have to tell your parents, if they don’t want you to go, then you can’t.” said Mrs. Potter sadly. Lily wasn’t too worried since her parents would want her to pursue her dreams. James and Lily spent the rest of the day in James’ room, talking about what James’ parents had told them about Hogwarts.


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Chapter 2: Diagon Alley

Lily woke up really early the next morning. She was excited since today was her first day to the wizard shops in Diagon Alley. Lily ran into James’ room and hurriedly woke him up. He grumbled for a while, then eventually got up. Lily was down stairs and talking to Scarlet when James sat down, ruffling his messy hair. Lily was excitedly talking, her parents were to come back that day, but not until the late afternoon, so the Potter’s were going to take Lily to Diagon Alley.

“...the shops really owned by wizards?” Lily was asking.

“Yes, and each one has something different. Like Quidditch Supplies, Potions ingredients, Pet shops, Joke shops, Wands-” Mrs. Potter answered, putting food in front of Lily and James.

“What? Wands?” Lily said excitedly. Mrs. Potter laughed lightly at Lily’s excitement.

“Yes dear, wands.” she replied, pulling out her wand to show Lily. She looked at it in utter amazement. James laughed a little. Finding out that Lily was a witch was great; it meant that they could still go to school together. James finished his breakfast and looked up at Lily, who was impatiently tapping her foot on the floor. James stood up and followed Lily into his living room; a fireplace in the center with a sofa facing it. Mrs. and Mr. Potter were waiting for them with a small flower pot in their hands. Mr. Potter held the flower pot out to Lily.

“Ah, dad, Lily never traveled by floo powder before.” James said.

“Then James, show her how it’s done.” Mr. Potter said. James stepped forward and took a pinch of the grey powder in the pot. He stepped up to the fireplace and threw the powder in it, the flames turned green instantly. James stepped into the green flames, which was warm but didn’t burn him at all.

“Diagon Alley.” James said clearly. Before leaving, he glanced at Lily who had a look of pure shock written all over her face, while his parents gave her tips. He spun around in the fireplace. He toppled out of the grate in a small room with nothing in it except the fireplace. He stepped aside as the flames behind him turned green and Lily stumbled out. James caught her before she hit the floor, bringing her back to her feet. The flames in the grate turned green two more times and James’ parents stepped out, leading James and Lily to the wizard shops that awaited them.

“Oh wow!” Lily exclaimed as she and the Potters’ made there way down the cobbled street. “Mrs. Potter.” Lily started suddenly. “I don’t have any money to buy my books and wand.”

“Don’t worry Lily dear, we will pay for them now and then your parents can come and get some muggle money transferred into wizard money.” Mrs. Potter answered, leading them, with Mr. Potter, into Flourish and Blotts to buy their books. Lily couldn’t take her eyes of some of the books; she was so fascinated by them. They eventually had to pull Lily away from all the books, and they made their way to Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions. Mr. and Mrs. Potter had to wait outside, since the shop was small enough as it is. James and Lily stepped inside and the woman named Madam Malkin came up to them.

“First years at Hogwarts, dears?” she asked kindly, leading them both over to stools. They murmured their reply as she bewitched the tape measure to take their sizes. She disappeared for a while and came back with black material. James and Lily both had the long dark robes pulled over their heads and fitted to the right length. After twenty minutes, they were done and back on the street to go to Ollivander’s. Lily and James were so excited about getting their wands, it was all they could do to not run into the shop. Lily was measured first, the tape measure moving on its own accord again.

“Hmm, try this one.” Mr. Ollivander said, handing Lily her 5th wand. Mr. Ollivander grabbed the wand almost as soon as he gave it to Lily. “Ah, willow and unicorn hair, ten and a quarter inches.” Mr. Ollivander said this time. Lily held it and swished it through the air, sending gold sparks dancing around the room. Mr. Ollivander clapped along with James, Mr. and Mrs. Potter. It was James’ turn now. The tape measure measured his arm just as it had Lily’s. Mr. Ollivander started pulling down wands from the shelves. He handed James one.

“Yew and unicorn hair, ten inches, try it out, give it a wave.” Mr. Ollivander said excitedly. James started to swing his arm but Mr. Ollivander snatched the wand away. Mr. Ollivander handed James more and more wands, the pile on the chair getting higher and higher with discarded wands. “Mahogany and dragon heartstring, eleven inches.” Mr. Ollivander said. James waved the wand and sent a shower of red sparks over everyone. They all clapped again, bought the wands, and left the tiny shop. Then the four flooed home.


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Chapter 3: Hogwarts

Lily started reading her spell books almost as soon as she got them. James had to drag her away from them at times. Lily’s parents came later that day and the Potter’s said good bye to Lily, for now.

“Lils, will you at least come out of your house sometime during the summer?” James joked. Lily sighed but smiled all the same.

“Of course.” she replied.

“Meet me at the park tomorrow at six.” James whispered as their parents talked. Lily nodded and said good bye to the Potters’ again. Lily’s mom and dad got into the car, followed by Lily. James watched as their car rounded the turn, and disappeared from view. He climbed the stairs to his bedroom and sat on his bed, looking at the pile of new school books on his floor. He picked up his transfiguration book and opened it about half way through. There was a big diagram covering half the page with symbols and numbers James didn’t have a prayer at understanding. He shut the book again and looked over his room. His bed, untidy, his wardrobe, full of new robes, mixed with muggle clothes and his desk, littered with paper. It was about seven o’clock when James heard his mother calling up to him that dinner was ready.

As he climbed down the stairs to eat dinner, an owl swooped in through the window his parents always leave open for the owls. The owl flew straight toward him. He took off the letter and the owl took off.

James,
After I left your house my parents wanted to visit Diagon Alley, and while we were there they got me an owl! Can you believe it? Now we can send messages to each other faster. See you tomorrow,
Lily

James was beaming as he walked into the kitchen. He sat down and hurriedly ate his dinner, then went back to his room and fell asleep, anxious about tomorrow.

Beep! Beep! James drowsily leaned over to hit the snooze button but remembered why he set the alarm in the first place, so he could meet Lily. James turn off the alarm, wide awake now, and got dressed. He had told his parents at dinner that he would leave at six that morning, but he left a note just in case. He pulled on his jacket as he stepped out of the house and down the street, taking as many alleyways and shortcuts he could find to get there faster. He looked down at his watch as he neared the park, 5:59 a.m. Once he had sat down on the swing his watched beeped out that it was six. Lily arrived a few minutes later.

“Why did you want to meet so early?” was the first thing she said.

“So we have the whole day.” James answered easily. Lily started to groan but bit it back. She quickly started talking about what Hogwarts would be like and their classes. It was almost noon, and James and Lily’s stomachs started growling. Just as they were about to go their separate ways home, a paper ball hit James’ head. He bent down and picked it up and read that it was from his parents, telling him to get home. He laughed and bide Lily goodbye.



The weeks flew by with James and Lily meeting up everyday until the eve of their departure to Hogwarts. They were excitedly talking about it all day and went to bed early so that they could pack and get ready to leave. James had gotten up at eight on the morning of September the first on accident. He quickly scrambled around to pack all of his stuff. He then heaved his trunk down the stairs into the living where his parents were waiting. He shoveled down some breakfast then James and his father lifted James’ trunk into the car. It was 10:45 by the time James and his parents got to Kings Cross Station. They quickly ran at the wall (which James instinctively closed his eyes) and saw the bright red steam engine, The Hogwarts Express.

“Now James, be sure to stay out of trouble!” Mrs. Potter said sternly. James grinned at her.

“I will,” he said.

“Have a good term!” his parents called after him as he got on the train. The train started to move and James waved out the window at his parents. After the train rounded the corner, James heaved his trunk down the isle, looking for an empty compartment.

“Excuse me,” James said to a small boy with blonde hair and watery blue eyes. “but is this seat taken?”

“No, it’s not. Have a seat.” the boy said. “I’m Peter Pettigrew.”

“I’m James Potter.” he answered, shaking Peter’s hand. James stowed his trunk in the luggage rack then took a seat below it. He opened his mouth to say something to Peter, but the compartment door opened and a boy around their age tripped in, his light brown hair covering his face. He lifted his hand and swiped it off his face to reveal the light brown eyes.

“Hi, mine if I join you?” the new comer asked.

“Sure, I’m James Potter, and this is Peter Pettigrew.” James said as he helped the boy put his trunk onto the rack.

“I’m Remus Lupin.” he said as he sat down. “What year are you guys in?”

“First.”

“First.”

“GET OFF ME!” someone suddenly screamed from the corridor. James stood up and opened the door to see a boy and a girl, each with black hair, fighting. Remus and James ran out of the door and broke up the boy and girl from killing each other. Remus held back the boy while James threw the girl off of him.

“Sorry.” the boy mumbled. “My cousin.” he continued as if that explained it all. “Can I join you?”

“Sure.” James said, following the boy and Remus into the compartment.

“I’m Sirius, by the way, Sirius Black.” James’ eyes widened slightly, which didn’t go unnoticed by Sirius. “I’m not into the pureblood mania like the rest of my family.” he added quickly. “That’s in fact what my cousin and I were fighting about.”

“Sorry about your parents and cousin.” said James. “I’m James Potter, this is Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.” he said, indicating each one as he said their name. The boys talked the whole rest of the way to Hogwarts. James had stood up about halfway through the ride to look for Lily and found her in a compartment with some other girls. He had decided not to bother her and headed back to his own compartment. Now the Hogwarts Express was at Hogsmeade Station and everyone was getting off the train onto the small platform.

“Firs’ years! Over hea’ firs’ years!” boomed a large voice. Once the four boys got closer they saw it was a huge man, over seven feet tall. He lead them down a path to a fleet of boats. The four boys got a boat to themself and they set off without any visible support. Once they bumped against the shore, everyone got out and made their way up to the castle. They climbed through the front door where they were greeted by a teacher.

“Hello and welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am Professor McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress. Now, in a few moments you will walk through these doors and join your classmates, but before that, you have to be sorted into your house. There are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin.” Professor McGonagall said. She had emerald robes on, and her greying hair was pulled into a tight bun. She walked away and didn’t ask them to follow her, so all the first years stood, quietly talking.

“What house do you think you’ll be in?” James asked Sirius. He looked down at the floor then back at James.

“My whole family has been in Slytherin. I don’t want to be because I don’t care about pureblood and all that rubbish.” Sirius said defiantly. James looked a little shocked but then remembered what Sirius had said on the train, about his family’s pureblood mania.

“Remus, Peter, what house do you think you’ll be in?” James asked.

“I don’t know what each house represents.” Remus said quietly.

“I’ll probably be in Hufflepuff, I’m not good at anything.” Peter said. None of the other boys could say anything as Professor McGonagall came back and all the first years followed her. They stepped into the Great Hall and saw four long house tables, all laden with golden plates, cups and silverware. The Great Hall seemed to not have a ceiling at all, as it looked out into the starry sky. The hall was silently waiting as the first years made it up to the steps where Professor McGonagall came and put a three-legged stool down and an ancient hat on top of it. The hat burst into song immediately.

In times of old when I was new
And Hogwarts barely started
The founders of our noble school
Thought never to be parted:
United by a common goal,
They had the selfsame yearning,
To make the world’s best magic school
And pass along their learning.
“Together we will build and teach!”
The four good friends decided
And never did they dream that they
Might someday be divided,
For were there such good friends anywhere
As Slytherin and Gryffindor?
Unless it was the second pair
Of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw?
So how could it have gone so wrong?
How could such friendships fail?
Why, I was there and so can tell
The whole sad, sorry tale.
Said Slytherin, “We’ll teach just those
Whose ancestry is purest.”
Said Ravenclaw, “We’ll teach those whose
Intelligence is surest.”
Said Gryffindor, “We’ll teach all those
With brave deeds to their name.”
Said Hufflepuff, “I’ll teach the lot,
And treat them just the same.”
These differences caused little strife
When first they came to light,
For each of the four founders had
A House in which they might
Take only those they wanted, so,
For instance, Slytherin
Took only pure-blood wizards
Of great cunning, just like him,
And only those of the sharpest mind
Were taught by Ravenclaw
While the bravest and boldest
Went to daring Gryffindor.
Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest,
And taught them all she knew,
Thus the Houses and their founders
Retained friendships firm and true.
So Hogwarts worked in harmony
For several happy years,
But then discord crept among us
Feeding on our faults and fears.
The House that, like pillars fours,
Had once held up our school,
Now turned upon each other and,
Divided, sought to rule.
And for a while it seemed the school
Must meet an early end,
What with dueling and with fighting
And the clash of friend on friend
And at last there came a morning
When old Slytherin departed
And thought the fighting then died out
He left us quite downhearted.
And never since the founders four
Were whittled down to three
Have the Houses been united
As they once were meant to be.
And now you all know the score:
I sort you into Houses
Because that is what I’m for.
Now that I have told you all their story,
Let the sorting now begin.

The sorting hat fell silent and the room broke into applause. Once the clapping died down, Professor McGonagall took out a list and started to read from it. She had passed the A’s when James’ stomach began to growl with hunger.

“Black, Sirius.” she called. The room seemed to have recognized the name Black, and were watching Sirius closely. Sirius sat on the stool and, just like everyone else, the hat dropped over his eyes. Almost as soon as Professor McGonagall let go of the hat did it call out:

“GRYFFINDOR!” The table at the far end of the hall burst into applause and Sirius had a huge smile on his face. James barely paid attention to the sorting until one name brought James sharply back to earth.

“Evans, Lily.” Lily sat down on the stool and the sorting hat barely touched her head when it yelled out,

“GRYFFINDOR!” Lily beamed and stood up to join her fellow Gryffindors. The sorting continued and James watched as Remus was also sorted into Gryffindor. After that, he only paid attention when Professor McGonagall got to the P’s. James watched Peter walk tentatively up to the stool and sit down. Peter was sorted into Gryffindor.

“Potter, James.” Professor McGonagall called. James walked up to the stool and sat down. Immediately the hat dropped on his head, blocking his site of the Great Hall.

“Ah... yes, you have a lot of courage.” the hat whispered in his ear. “Yes, I know what to do with you. GRYFFINDOR!” The hat called to the hall. James felt very happy to be in Gryffindor as he walked up to Lily and sat down next to her. James watched the last few people be sorted into Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. As soon as the last person sorted sat down, the headmaster stood up.

“Welcome to our new students,” he began. “and welcome back to our older students. I am Professor Dumbledore. I know you are all hungry so I will leave the announcements until after the feast.” he said, and as he did, the four house tables were suddenly laden with food. Everyone started eating immediately. When the dinner disappeared it was instantly replaced with dessert. Once that too disappeared too, Dumbledore stood up again.

“Now, I have a few announcements. The fifth door on the fifth floor corridor will be off limits to all students. And our caretaker has asked me to remind all students that you cannot perform magic in the corridors. Also that the Forbidden Forest on the grounds is off limits to all students. Now, I know that you must all be tired, and your beds are waiting. Good Night.” Professor Dumbledore said and everyone got up and headed off to their dormitories.

“What do you think is behind that door?” James asked the other guys as they followed the Gryffindor prefect up to their common room.

“Could be anything.” said Sirius. “I wouldn’t put it pass Dumbledore to bring something dangerous into the school.”

“Let’s just not go in it.” Remus said. James shrugged and continued on the way to the common room.


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Chapter 4: Close to the Truth

“What?” asked James. It had been a week into the first term and the four boys had been anything but separable.

“I said that it would be a good idea if you didn’t run into Peeves the Poltergeist,” Remus said. The four boys were talking about teachers and ghost to avoid, which was just about every teacher in Hogwarts.

“Oh, I almost forgot. I won’t be here tomorrow night,” Remus continued, his eyes fixed on the floor

“Where are you going?” asked Sirius interested. Remus still didn’t look at them but walked faster to the Great Hall.

“My mom is sick. I have to go see her,” he said shortly, hoping his lie went undetected and the others would drop the subject.

“Sorry,” said James while Peter and Sirius nodded vigorously.

“It’s okay, don’t be sorry,” Remus said shortly.

“James!” a voice called behind them. James turned around, not expecting what he saw, Lily, walking down the stairs toward them.

“Hey, Lils! I haven’t seen you around in a while,” James said.

“Oh, I have been doing homework and studying,” said Lily easily. “Who are your friends?”

“This is Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew,” James said, indicating each of his friends. They nodded and smiled at Lily who was beaming back at them. “This is Lily Evans.”

“Hey guys! Well, where are you going?” Lily asked.

“To get lunch,” said Sirius.
“Mind if I join you guys?” Lily asked.

“Sure,” the four said in unison.

James had gathered a lot of information on his new friends in the past week; Sirius won’t say one good thing about his family, Remus was as into school as Lily was, and Peter would tend to be shy around people. They walked into the Great Hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table. Sirius immediately started to dig into the food around him. James also picked up that Sirius could not go without three meals a day; it seemed to be physically impossible.

“Lils, who are your new friends?” James asked, remembering who he saw in the train compartment with Lily.

“Oh, Suzanne Writ, Kayla Mitchell, Caitlyn Tracktenburg, and Kate Burgess,” Lily said, taking a bite from her sandwich.

“Well, that is all the girls in our year and my dorm,” she continued. James just nodded while Sirius stared at Lily with his mouth open, not a pretty site when it is jammed with food.

“How come I didn’t see them?!” Sirius asked once he had swallowed his food.

“Well, they are in our classes,” said Remus. Sirius just stared at him.

“And how come I have never seen them?” Sirius asked again. Everyone just stared at him then continued eating.

“So Lils, I have you in,” James paused, looking at his and Lily’s schedule side by side. “5 of my classes. Not bad.”

“Yeah,” Lily answered, taking her schedule back. “Too bad we don’t have all our classes together. That way we have more time together.” James was about to say something but closed his mouth as the four girls that Lily mentioned joined them.

“Hi Lily,” said a girl with curly blonde hair that fell around her shoulders and soft blue eyes.

“Hey Suzanne. Kayla, Caitlyn, Kate.” Lily paused and pointed to each girl as she said their name. Kayla with light brown hair and dark eyes, Caitlyn with straight black hair and bright green eyes, and Kate, with dark red hair and light brown eyes. “Meet James, Sirius, Remus and Peter,” Lily said, pointing to each guy she introduced them.

“Hey,” the four guys said.

“Aren’t you in my Transfiguration class?” asked Kayla, her dark eyes penetrating James’. James thought about who was all in his class.

“Yeah, you are,” he answered finally as the other girls started to chat with the guys. They continued to talk about school and teachers until the food disappeared. It was Saturday, which meant that they didn’t have any classes to go to. Finally night started to fall upon the castle and Remus disappeared, saying that he would see all of them in a week. They sat around the fire in the common room, trying and failing to finish their homework. It was around midnight when all the girls and guys headed up to bed. Sirius and James were climbing into bed when they heard it. Howling, distant howling and snarling. As if two giant dogs were fighting each other.

“What do you think that was?” asked James scared.

“Could be a werewolf,” Sirius answered, almost as scared as James was. The howling was close. James’ eyes widened visibly. “Just forget about it, if it is a werewolf, it can’t get into the castle,” Sirius continued, trying to calm James as much as himself. James laid on his stomach and looked out at the full moon, thinking about Remus’ sick mom and if she would be okay.

James woke up surprisingly early on Sunday. He looked around the circular room and at his fellow Gryffindors. Sirius, in the bed to the left of James’, Remus’ empty bed to James’ right, Peter, in the bed to the left of Sirius, and Thomas Genami, to the left of Peter. James quietly got out of bed, dressed and slipped out of the portrait hole. It was only six in the morning, and no one was up. James got to the marble staircase and saw something semi-slumped against the open doors. James walked warily toward it. As James got closer his eyes widen and he started to walk faster toward none other than Remus Lupin. He got to his friend who had long scratches down his arms and face, his robes almost like threads hanging off his body.

“Ah man, Remus? REMUS! Can you hear me?” James asked Remus who stirred a little, noticed it was James and tried to act like he wasn’t hurt at all.

“Hey James,” Remus said hoarsely. “What are you doing up?”

“What happened?” James asked, ignoring Remus’ question. Remus looked down himself as if he was fine.

“Oh that,” he muttered, indicating his cuts. “I ran into a... werewolf last night, yeah,” Remus lied. “Don’t worry!” Remus continued as James looked alarmed. “It didn’t bite me, but I fell down a lot as I ran from it,” he finished.

“Okay, whatever happened, you need to see Madam Pomfrey, quick!” said James, grabbing a scrap of Remus that wasn’t bleeding, and dragging him to the hospital wing. James and Remus made it to the hospital to see a harassed looking Madam Pomfrey.

“Mr. Lupin, what happened?” she asked. Remus shook his head violently.

James and Madam Pomfrey laid him down on the nearest bed. “Anyways, thank you Mr. Potter, you can go now,” Madam Pomfrey said. James looked at Remus once before he turned and headed down to breakfast.

“James, are you okay?” asked Lily as James sat down with Lily and Sirius an hour later. James shook his head.

“Remus was attacked by a werewolf, but he wasn’t bitten, luckily,” James answered. Lily’s eyes widened as did Sirius’.

“Are you serious?” asked Sirius. Every time anyone had asked that, Sirius would have answered ‘no, I am Sirius’, but he could tell that this wasn’t a time for jokes. James sadly nodded his head and continued pushing his food around his plate. Sirius and Lily continued eating in silence until James had pushed his food from one side of the plate to the other fifty time.

“I’m going to go see him.” James said, standing up, Sirius and Lily immediately followed suit. They made it up to the hospital wing and were allowed to see the werewolf victim. He didn’t look as bad as when James found him, but pretty close. “What are you guys doing here?” asked Remus quickly, trying to sit up. Sirius came over and pushed him lightly back onto the bed.

“How did you end up like this?” Sirius asked as Lily looked at Remus with a confused and concentrated look. Remus looked at them all nervously. “I told James what happened, I thought that he would have told you,” he answered, examining the bed covers.

“Well he did. But how did you end up near a werewolf?” Sirius continued. Remus was doing quick thinking.

“I was walking across the grounds last night to get to my mom,” Remus lied, his mind racing. “As I got near the gate a werewolf came out of nowhere and started to attack me. I ran but tripped, a lot, that is how I got most of the scratches,” Remus finished. Lily still had a concentrated look on. Sirius looked a little skeptical, as did James, but they accepted his story.

Lily suddenly snapped her fingers, a look of understanding dominating her facial features. “I’ll be right back,” she said hurriedly and sprinted out of the ward.

“What was that about?” asked James, Sirius shrugged but Remus now had a scared look. Sirius was looking
out the door where Lily left for ten minutes before saying something incoherent.

“What?” asked James.

“I said that Lily is hot,” muttered Sirius. James punched his arm. “OW! What was that for?”

“Thinking that about Lily,” answered James in a slightly threatening voice.

“What? I can’t like her?” asked Sirius.

“Of course you can. Just don’t say stupid comments like that,” James said.
“Why would that be a stupid comment, James?” asked Lily, stepping into the ward again, a blazing look on her face.

“It’s-it’s just-” James stuttered.

“You don’t think anyone could like me?” she asked in a deadly voice, advancing into the room, closer to James.

“It’s not that! Lily, Lils-” James pleaded, trying to calm her down.

“You know what James?” she started, now inches away from James. “Maybe I like Sirius,” she whispered. Sirius had a stunned look on his face. James felt his heart speed up. His heart was in her hands.

“You-you do?” asked James weakly, hoping she would not give it the final stab.

“Yes,” her answer was menacing. She turned on her heel and walked out of the hospital wing. As she answered, James’ heart stopped beating. She had killed him.

“Whoa.” breathed Sirius, wide eyed. “She likes me.”

“Yeah, good for you,” said James gloomily, on his face an unreadable expression.


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Chapter 5: The End of Friendship

Lily didn’t talk to James at all for the next week. Remus got better, eventually, but it gave Sirius, James and Peter a scare. James was getting more and more depressed every day that Lily wouldn’t look at him. But she did occasionally (and in full view of James) come up to Sirius and start to flirt with him, much to the annoyance and jealousy of James.

“I mean, does she have to do that in front of me?” James exclaimed loudly after Lily had come up to Sirius for the third time that day. The other guys had figured out that James really did like Lily and that Lily was just trying to get back at James for what he said. Lily was so mad at James that he wasn’t sure their friendship could handle it. Lily’s anger at James seemed to build higher and higher everyday.

“Do you really think she likes Sirius?” James asked Remus quietly later that same day. They were in the common room now, doing homework of all things.

“I don’t think so.” Was the hesitant answer from the mountain of books behind which Remus was hidden. They didn’t have that much homework, but Remus was an over achiever. “She normally looks at you when she is talking to Sirius, waiting for your reaction,” continued Remus. James looked back at his homework, barely seeing the question he was supposed to be answering.

“Hey James.” said Sirius, sitting in the seat next to him. “Hey Remus.”

“Hi Sirius.” replied Remus, his voice muffled from the stack of books.

“Hello Sirius,” James said, still looking at the question, a distant look in his eye. Sirius looked a little concerned, but turned to his bag and pulled out his potions homework.

“D-did you do the homework for Professor Slughorn?” asked Sirius nervously, not sure if James was mad at him or not. He was looking at his homework that the potions master had assigned.

James raised an eyebrow at Sirius, turning to look at him. Their eyes met and James knew he couldn’t be mad at Sirius forever. “Yeah, I just finished, I am on McGonagall’s homework now.” answered James, smiling slightly. Sirius relaxed at James’ look. James pulled out Slughorn’s homework, that he had put away seconds before, and passed it to Sirius.

“Thanks,” said Sirius. The boys worked in silence. They were joined by Peter a few minutes after. “Wait a second,” Sirius said. “I know this answer!” Remus and James looked over at him. Sirius pointed at a question and James read it:

Name 3 properties of moonstone.

“And I know the next one.” Sirius was smiling at his own knowledge now. “Hang on. James, I don’t need to copy your paper.” Sirius then began to scribble answers down, almost as fast as Remus normally wrote his answers. James raised an eyebrow at the unusual behavior of his friend. Shaking his head, James returned to his homework.

It had been just over two months since Lily had stopped talking to James. Even though James had apologized over and over again, Lily wouldn’t accept it. Her anger seemed to be fueled by every bad move he had ever made. Meanwhile, James also started to develop a nasty habit of saying the wrong things to Lily. James was in the Great Hall, having an early breakfast. Just at that moment Lily walked into the Great Hall also, probably hoping not to run into anyone this early in the morning. James looked up at her and noticed how pretty she was.

“Hey Lily,” James whispered quietly to Lily as she passes by him. She looked up at him and scowled.

“What do you want, Potter?” Lily had made it a habit to call James ‘Potter’.

“Just saying ‘hi’.” said James, looking down at his plate. Lily frowned and moved farther down the table. Almost an hour later (it had been 6 o’clock on Saturday) James was joined by his other friends. Remus and Peter sat across from him while Sirius took the seat on his left.

In the two months, Sirius had liked Lily, moved on, liked Caitlyn, moved on and now liked Kayla. James started to like Suzanne, since he realized that Lily hated him. Even though the other four girls are really good friends with Lily, they talked to the four guys.

“Hey James, what’s up?” asked Remus, knowing immediately that something was wrong.

James sighed. “Nothing.” was his short answer. Remus shrugged. Getting information out of James had been harder and harder, but James seemed a little less dispirited then he had been a month ago. Maybe he’s coming around, Remus hoped. James nodded his head, as if agreeing to what Remus thought, until he realized that Sirius was talking in a low voice to James.

“Come on, Quidditch is great to let everything go,” Sirius prompted. Even though James had been raised by a witch and wizard, his parents didn’t let him mess around with Quidditch or magic in general, hoping that James would learn how hard it is for Muggles to cope with ordinary life. Of course, it hadn’t been easy on James’ dad to not teach his son Quidditch. So when his mother wasn’t looking, James and his dad would go out to the park after dark and toss an apple to each other on brooms.

James sighed again. “Okay, I do have some practice with a broomstick.” Sirius’ jaw dropped.

“You haven’t been on a broom that long?” Sirius must have picked that up pretty quick. James nodded.

After their breakfast, Sirius and James grabbed brooms, followed by Remus, but Peter choose to watch. Out on the Quidditch pitch, James found that he was actually pretty good at maneuvering a broom. Soon James, Remus and Sirius were racing around the pitch. Peter watched from the ground with much enthusiasm.

About a minute later, Lily stalked out of the castle with her friends Suzanne, Kayla, Caitlyn and Kate. James turned around on his broom to see who it is. As soon as Lily set eyes on James she rolled them and walked over to the black lake. James sunk lower onto his broom.

“JAMES! WATCH OUT!” yelled Remus. James looked up just in time to see a violent tree lash out at him. He swerved to the right and dodged another branch trying to knock him off his broom. He sped up and just cleared the trees’ path before a branch lashed out at him. James shook his head, realizing that thinking of Lily had nearly gotten himself killed.

“Are you okay?” asked Sirius, pulling up to hover next to James, Remus right behind him.

“Yeah,” James answered breathlessly. “I’m fine.” James offered a sly grin before they raced back to the ground.


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Chapter 6: Odd Events

“Your mom is sick again?” Sirius asked incredulously three weeks later, earning himself a punch from James who glared at him to shut up.

“Yeah,” replied Remus. “She has a disease that doesn’t get better but I can only get away from school once a month so I don’t miss too much homework.”

“I still can’t believe you actually like homework.” muttered Peter as they walked down from the common room to dinner.

“It’s fascinating, learning new things, don’t you think?” said Remus.

“No!” the trio replied simultaneously. Remus looked appalled but continued on to dinner.

Of course, as it had been for weeks, Lily wasn’t talking to James, especially after James nearly got himself killed by a tree. James sat down at the end of the Gryffindor table and started to dig into the food in front of him.

“So, Remus, how long will you be gone?” asked Sirius.

“About a week.” he answered.

“Are you going to leave for a week every month?” Peter said, shoveling food into his mouth.

“Yep,” answered Remus

“As long as you don’t come walking into the castle at the crack of dawn half-dead, were fine,” Sirius said around all the food in his mouth. Remus laughed dryly as he remembered that morning.

“Deal.”



James yawned and looked at his watch: 6:00 a.m. Great, he thought as he pulled himself out of bed. He glanced out of the window as he walked to his trunk and froze. Madam Pomfrey was walking up to the vicious tree that nearly mauled James three weeks ago. What is she doing there? He asked himself. He stood staring at Madam Pomfrey as she took out her wand and pointed it at the tree, which froze immediately.

“James? What are you doing?” Sirius came up behind him and let out a short, bark-like laugh. “Yes, I suppose you would like to see that tree from far away instead of up close.”

James ignored him. “Madam Pomfrey just went into the tree.”

“What do you mean ‘into’?” he asked.

“I mean she took out her wand, the tree froze, and she climbed in.” answered James. Sirius’ mouth dropped open as he stood with James and watched as Madam Pomfrey reappeared.

“What was she doing in there?” said Sirius, his mouth hanging open still.

“I have no idea.” said James slowly.

Once Peter woke up and asked them what they were doing they decided that they had to get to breakfast. Despite how early James woke up, he just barely made it to his first class.



“Hey Remus.” welcomed Peter a week later.

“Hey,” said Remus, pale and very thin looking, but smiling none the less. James thought that it was probably from seeing his mom sick; it could take a toll on anyone. James ran a hand threw his hair, which never truly lay flat. The four boys made their way back to the common room in complete silence.

“Alright,” Remus said, turning so he faced all three of them in the common room. “What’s up? You are barely even talking!”

Sirius sighed. “We didn’t want to worry you or anything about what James and I saw last week.”

“Just say it.” said Remus rolling his eyes.

“We saw Madam Pomfrey walking up to the Whomping Willow and go inside of it.” said James. Remus’ eyes dilated for a second, but other than that, he didn’t have any reaction. “What do you make of it?”

“Um,” Remus staled. “I don’t know.”

“We don’t either.” said Peter. Remus vowed to talk to Madam Pomfrey about going out when someone could be up and watching.



The next month flashed by. The Quidditch season started, James and Sirius, occasionally with Remus and Peter, attended every match. All too soon October blurred into November this in turn blew wintery winds through December. There was a good two feet of snow all around the school. Unfortunately for every student in the school, they had to spend a good day which could have ended in the havoc of a massive snowball fight indoors. The homework that the teachers had piled on was at an alarming height and James and Sirius, especially, had to spend all of their free time on it.

“Okay!” exclaimed Sirius, slamming his books down, hard, on the table in front of him. “What is up with all of the homework!?”

“We do have exams at the end of the year.” Remus pointed out. Sirius rolled his eyes.

“It’s December. We have exams in July.” retorted Sirius, as if that explained everything. Remus rolled his eyes this time and continued on his homework.

James could have almost sworn that the clocks were moving extra fast, as if an invisible person was moving the hands. Before anyone knew it, it was Christmas.

“Hey,” whispered James into Sirius’ ear on the Christmas Eve. “We should see what is behind that door on the fifth floor.” Sirius thought for a moment what James was talking about, and then he remembered the start of term feast and what Dumbledore had said.

“Okay, when?” he asked, excited.

“Tonight,”

“Should we bring Remus and Peter?”

“If they want to.” was the answer. James and Sirius walked around for an hour before finally finding Remus and Peter in the library, studying.

“Do you guys want to go to the fifth floor with us tonight?” asked James in hushed tones for Madam Prince was near.

“You don’t mean the fifth door do you?” said Remus.

“The very same.”

Remus shrugged his shoulders. “Sure. When?”

“9 o’clock,” James said.

“Sure,”

“Excellent!” said James, and him and Sirius left.


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Chapter 7: The Fifth Door

“Got it?” whispered James.

“Got what?” asked Peter. It was nine and the boys’ only room mate was fast asleep.

James rolled his eyes. “The plan. We can’t afford you to give us away.” Peter looked down at the floor, embarrassed.

“Yeah, I do know the plan,” he mumbled.

“Just go over it one more time so we are sure everyone knows it.” said Remus.

“We should hide behind statues and suits of armor incase anyone is walking around. Be careful of the trick stair. We don’t have time to pull anyone out,” he shot a look at Sirius who grinned slyly. “And we defiantly don’t want to be caught in it. Once we get to the fifth door we have to be on our guard, there could be anything in there.” he finished seriously.

Sirius laughed quietly so as to not disturb their room mate. “Wow, are we going to have fun or going to our death bed?”

“Come on.” said James, ignoring Sirius.

They quietly made their slow way to the portrait hole, opening it carefully so they wouldn’t bother the Fat Lady. They hurried down the corridor and down two flights of stairs, where they all looked down the long corridor of the fifth floor. Counting as they ran, all four of them skidded to a halt outside the fifth door. James tried the knob, which was locked, just as they had figured. Remus stepped up and pulled out his wand, whispering “Alohomora”. The door opened immediately and all four guys scuttled into the room so they could close the door before anyone would notice it was opened. They all looked around.“Whoa,” breathed James, staring into the vast room.

“Yeah, whoa,” whispered Sirius next to him.

They had just stepped into what looked like, outside. Trees grew every few feet, with vines hanging off the branches. The forest they had just stepped into was so dense they couldn’t see the rays of the moon that were shining through every window in the castle. As James looked closer at what was above them, through the thick vines, he saw what seemed to be the unmistakable signs of light coming through a window.

“Look,” said James, pointing up through the branches to the light.

“So we are still in a room?” asked Peter in complete wonderment.

“I guess so.” Remus murmured slowly. The four walked farther into the forest when Sirius suddenly stopped.

“No, don’t go any farther.” Sirius said in a rush. Everyone stopped.

Sirius walked a few paces to his right and picked up a fallen branch and threw it down exactly where they were going to walk. Instantly, the branch vanished. Suddenly it was there; then the next second it just wasn’t.“Where did it go?” asked Remus.

“How did you know that?” asked James.

“What happened?” seconded Peter.

“Whoa. I just, sensed it, nothing special. As for where it went, I have no idea. I just thought that it would be a bad idea if we stepped right there.” answered Sirius with a shrug.

James looked around the room, closer this time, paying attention to detail. He realized that the whole ‘forest’ was full of traps. That is why no one was aloud in this room. The question now became, what was this room guarding?

“Maybe we should just go.” stuttered Peter. Remus nodded slowly next to him.

“We only faced a minor set back.” said James casually.

“Stepping into a hole, or portal, that will take us to who-knows-where, isn’t a minor set back, it is a huge set back. For all we know, there could be something worse waiting for us farther in.” Remus pointed out.

James thought for a moment before answering. “Fine, I guess you’re right. Until we can find a better way in, or around the ‘step backs’, then we will just go.”

“Go?” asked a chilling voice behind them. “Why would you want to do that?” The four spun around to see what had called out to them but they saw nothing. “Over here...” the voice whispered. James whipped out his wand, not that it could truly help him, since he only knew a few spells, and none of them effective enough to hurt someone.

“Who was that?” asked Sirius, revolving on the spot.

“Why, it was me.” the voice mocked.

“Where are you?” James asked in his strongest voice, which came out more high-pitched than he wanted. The voice laughed.

The four hear a soft thump of something dropping to the ground behind them and quickly turned that way. What they saw made their hearts stop. Standing in front of them was more beast then man; or woman. What was once probably a gorgeous woman now took on the form of someone who has lived in the wild for the better part of their life. She had long, tangled brown hair, razor sharp eyes, and a hard set expression on her face.

“Now,” she began in the same deadly cold voice. “What are you doing here?”

“W-we were j-just l-leaving.” James said in little more than a whisper.

“Leave?” she asked again. “So soon?”

Without thinking about it, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter all turned and ran the ten feet to the door. James yanked it open and all four tumbled out, falling over each other to shut the door. While in the room the woman was laughing, her blood chilling laugh. Her laughter still echoed off the walls after they shut the door. The four made it back to their common room safe enough, only having to avoid Filch once.

“Maybe we should just forget about that for now.” said James. “Tomorrow is Christmas, we shouldn’t worry about that room.” They all nodded in agreement, then headed up the stairs to their beds, and fell asleep.

“CHRISTMAS!!” shouted Sirius, throwing bits of wrapping into the air for emphasis. James jumped off his bed where he had been opening a pair of socks from his mom, and tackled Sirius. The two boys rolled around on the paper strewn floor, play fighting.

Remus just laughed and threw a present at James’ head. It missed James and fell to the floor with a thud. James sat up and looked at it, then ripped it open. Out fell a book.

“Wow, Remus, I really wasn’t expecting that.” said James, his voice oozing sarcasm, but still pleased with the book since it was about quidditch. James then picked up presents from his trunk and threw one to Thomas Genami, Sirius, Remus and Peter, who was knocked over by it, and feel off his bed. Everyone roared with laughter as Peter’s red face rose over the top of his bed.

James tore open his remaining presents and dumped all of his wrappings on Sirius’ bed. Sirius went around the room collecting paper wrappings and putting them into a huge pile in the middle of the room. Once the room was spotless except for the giant pile of wrappings, Sirius jumped off his bed and landed on his back, right into the pile. There was an explosion of paper and ribbons everywhere, along with a loud thud, which must have been painful. Once the wrappings settled, everyone saw Sirius on the floor, not moving. The four boys gathered around him, when he jumped up.

“THAT WAS AWESOME!!” he yelled. Everyone started laughing. They all started picking up wrapping, as if they were going to clean up, but instead, started a huge paper fight! Paper was flying everywhere, covering their opponent’s eyes and the room.

After an hour, the five boys collapsed on their beds, still laughing. James rolled over and noticed that snow was falling outside and slowly gathering on the window sill.

“SNOW BALL FIGHT!!” James shouted, grabbing warm clothes and running out of the room, into the common room, where people stared at him curiously as he flashed past, and down the stone steps into the snow. As soon as Sirius made it outside James threw a snow ball at him, hitting him right in the face. Instantly, all the other boys appeared and the war was on.

Once it was so dark out you couldn’t see a hand in front of your face, the five boys trooped up the stairs to their common room, soaking wet.

“Ha! Did you see me hit Thomas full on in the face?!” jeered Sirius as they walked up to their dormitory.

“How about when Remus hit the ground to avoid a snowball, but got covered in snow anyway!” laughed James. Remus turned slightly red, not realizing that anyone had paid attention. The boys were still laughing as they fell onto their beds.

James quickly sat up and ripped off his still soaking wet robes in exchange for pajamas. He then lay under the sheets, listening to the other boys talk about their snow fight, and slowly drifted off to sleep.



“JAMES!” a high pitched shriek pierced James’ ears as he turned around in a forest, looking everywhere for the voice.

“JJAAMMEESS!!!!” the voice was now hysterical, screaming James’ name as if her life depended on it, which, in this case, it probably did. James chose a random path from the clearing in which he stood, and started to run flat out for the girl.

“HELP ME!” the girl’s voice was getting louder, which was good. What James also heard with the voice, wasn’t good. It sounded like gnawing, a giant mouth gnawing on a giant bone. He stepped to the edge of the path and into another clearing, this one just as big as the last.

“JAMES!” the yell came from above him. James looked up and nearly fainted. Lily was suspended about forty feet above him, tied from her ankles and wrists, to two of the towering trees next to her. James looked around him to see if he could use anything to get her free.

James look right at one of the trees holding Lily up and saw where the gnawing sound had come from. A gigantic beast, a dog like bear, was chomping on the base of the tree. In seconds Lily would be pulled to the ground.

“JAMES!!” Lily’s voice echoed around him as the tree crumpled to the ground, yanking Lily with it.


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Chapter 8: A Winter Dream Gone Bad

James sat up abruptly and looked around. All his room mates were asleep. Calm down, James told himself, it was just a nightmare. James pulled the curtains open and walked over to the window sill. It was still dark out, the stars reflected brightly off the still water of the Great Lake. Dawn was approaching fast though, a pink tint could be seen on the horizon. James lay on his bed until the sun was fully up and all the other boys had woken up.

Now that Christmas was over, James and Sirius had to finish the homework they put off. Remus would sit with them and just read, not bothering to help them. Sirius and James would talk about their work and share answers. Finally, at noon, the boys had finished half of their homework. They all decided to get lunch and met up with Peter who had been in the library all day.

“Peter, why won’t you just tell us what you are working on?” questioned Remus.

“You guys will just make fun of me.” mumbled Peter, taking a bite of his sandwich.

“No we won’t.” implored Sirius. Peter sighed.

“Fine! I was looking up potions, you all know I’m no good in that class. I was just looking up tips.” Peter shrugged.

“Can we see this book?” James asked.

Peter opened his bag and pulled out a book labeled: Potions for Dummies. James took the book, hiding a grin, and skimmed through the contents, looking impressed. Once Sirius got a hold of the book he burst into hysterical laughter, making everyone around him turn in surprise. Peter quickly ripped the book out of Sirius’s hands and back into his bag, turning brick red. The boys finished their lunch in silence, except for Sirius’s continued snickers.

Peter joined them back to the common room where Sirius and James were finishing their homework. The common room was empty so Peter pulled out his book from the library and started to read. James and Sirius keep sharing sly grins at each other while trying to act normal. They shared answers until five in the afternoon when they had finally finished all their homework.

“YES!” James shouted, leaping in the air for joy. Sirius was jumping up and down on the couch as if he were a silly five year-old jumping on his parents’ bed. Suddenly, the two boys stopped what they were doing as if someone hit pause. They slowly turned with synchronized movement.

“SNOWBALL FIGHT!!” they shouted together when there eyes met. Not even bothering about proper clothing they sprinted out of the common room and through the portrait hole; Peter and Remus were right behind them.

James ran through the corridors at top speed chasing Sirius. Just when they rounded a corner, Lily and her friends moved into their way. The girls saw Sirius and James charging at them. All of them jumped flat against the walls of the corridor; all except Lily. She hadn’t noticed until too late. James came to an abrupt halt and tried to kiss her on the cheek. He missed and nearly fell over Lily.

“Sorry!” James shouted over his shoulder back at the girls as he ran around the next corner. All the girls laughed except Lily who scowled as always when James appeared.

Sirius and James blasted out of the front doors on to a deserted part of the grounds. They couldn’t get very far very fast since the snow was at least two feet high. Remus and Peter joined them shortly and the war began. James and Peter versus Remus and Sirius.

As the sun went down and it got too dark to see, the four boys went inside. James and Peter were high five-ing each other after their dominating triumph over Remus and Sirius. The other two boys were laughing at their crushing defeat.



Two months passed since Christmas. Lily hadn’t changed her mind about James, and Remus had, once again, disappeared to visit his mom. The boys didn’t think much of it, and if Lily had found out anything that day she ran out of the hospital wing, she wasn’t telling anyone.

“Where is Remus? He is normally back by now.” asked James with concern.

“Maybe his mom got worse and he had to stay longer then he intended.” suggested Sirius.

“Or maybe he is right there.” pointed Peter. Sirius and James both turned to look at the entrance to the Great Hall where they saw Remus, standing, looking a little pale but in good condition. Remus made it over to their table and sat down for dinner.

“Where have you been?” scolded Sirius, mocking a concerned mother’s voice. “We have been waiting forever for you. Do you know how worried we were?” James’s face broke into a wide grin as he watched Remus being scolded by Sirius.

A small voice coughed slightly, unheard by anyone except James. He bent down to look under the table and saw Kate, her dark red hair cascading down her shoulders.

“What are you doing?” whispered James, appalled.

Kate’s eyes widened for a second then urgently whispered. “It’s Lily, I have to hide from her, she is going mental!”

“What do you mean by that?” asked James worried.

“I don’t know. All I know is that she was definitely lying when she said she didn’t like you. She has been crying and not doing to well in her classes.” whispered Kate.

“Has this just started?”

“Yes,”

“Then it must be something else then her liking me, she told me that months ago.” answered James.

“Something is wrong, she isn’t talking much anymore and-” Kate stopped abruptly, listening.

James pulled his head above the table to hear Sirius say, “Hey Lily.”

James’ heart skipped a beat as Lily answered back. “Hi Sirius, have you seen Kate?”

“No I have not, but I will be sure to tell her you are looking for her.”

“Thanks, see you guys around.” Lily said to everyone, not looking at James, as usual.

“She seems fine to me.” James whispered to Kate.

“Of course! She isn’t going to act all psycho in front of you guys. It’s only in front of us.” Kate answered. On that ominous note, James pulled his head up and finished his dinner. Kate disappeared throughout the meal and James didn’t hear from her again.



James, Sirius, Remus and Peter didn’t go back into the fifth door. They had way too much homework to do much of anything. A lot of the older student already had to see Madam Pomfrey for calming draughts. The exams were two months away and the teachers were reviewing everything they had learned from the beginning of the year. By the end of the day, James’s brain hurt.

Since Kate told James about Lily, James has been keeping a closer eye on her, without her knowing of course. One thing that Kate said really stuck to James and would give him hope, ‘...all I know is that she was definitely lying when she said she didn’t like you...’


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Chapter 9: Announcement

“Sirius, come on, what are you five?” said James staring at Sirius as he stood up on the table in the common room. The room was packed and James was tugging on Sirius’s arm to get him down before he did something stupid.

“Sirius! Look what I got!” yelled Remus from the portrait hole. In his hand he held a sandwich. He waved the sandwich back and forth tantalizingly. Sirius’ head followed the sandwich from side to side. He leaped off the table and ran to Remus. He scarfed down the sandwich in two ginormous bites.

James and Sirius had been sitting doing, of all things, homework. They started joking around and James dared Sirius to stand up in front of everyone and sing a song. Sirius took it literally. James told Remus and Remus ran down to the Great Hall and grabbed a sandwich from dinner that was still being served. Another disaster avoided.

“Sirius, I didn’t mean that literally.” said James shaking his head.

“Everyone, get to the Great Hall immediately!” yelled a breathless voice from the portrait hole. Everyone stopped what they were doing and head down to see what was happening. The whole school was assembled there already. The Gryffindor’s sat at their table and the room got quiet. Professor Dumbledore then walked up in front of the school.

“I have called you all here to tell you all something very important.” he paused, looking at everyone. “Someone has entered the fifth door.” the students started to murmur. Dumbledore raised his hand and the room fell deathly quiet. “We don’t know who, it could be someone in the school or someone that got in the castle. Whoever it was didn’t take anything-”

“‘Take anything’? What does he mean by that?” whispered Peter. The three shrugged and kept listening.

“-but their presence didn’t go unknown. We only warn you to be aware. If it was someone from outside of the school, they will try again.” Dumbledore let that thought hang in the air as he left. Conversation soon erupted all over the hall from what Dumbledore had told them.

“He was talking about us.” Peter pointed out the obvious. Since dinner was still out, Sirius started eating, which didn’t come as a surprise to anyone.

“Really? Someone else could have gotten into the castle and went to that room.” said James.

“It really is possible. We haven’t been to that room in months, someone could have went in and performed magic. That is how Dumbledore knew someone entered that room: magic.” explained Remus. Peter stared at him blankly for a few moments. Everyone slowly drifted out of the dining hall and back to their dormitories.

“He reads way to much.” murmured Sirius to James as they made their way back to the common room. James nodded in agreement.

James changed into his pajamas as he listened to Remus and Sirius talking.

“Okay, honestly, how many books do you read?” asked Sirius.

Remus rolled his eyes. “I don’t know everything you know!”

“Name one thing you don’t know.” challenged Sirius.

James groaned as Remus pondered over the question. “I don’t know what girls think.” Sirius just stared at Remus, then burst into laughter. James smiled also as he clambered into bed.

“Wow, now that’s something.” remarked Sirius. Thomas, Peter and James were all in bed, silently begging Remus and Sirius to shut up and go to sleep.

Finally, the two changed and got into bed, letting everyone sleep.



The next day wasn’t quite as interesting as the day before, but there was some excitement. The four boys were still pondering on how Dumbledore could have known that they had gotten into the room, if it was even them. They were more worried that it was someone else, someone with great power as to deceive Dumbledore.


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Chapter 10: Celebration

“Can you believe that finals are only a few weeks away?” worried Remus. Sirius rolled his eyes.

“Remus, it’s okay, your brilliant! You’re going to do fine.” James soothed. Peter was fidgeting more than ever being so close to the finals. Only James and Sirius were trying to play cool and not look too worried.

Some kids in their years already had to go to the hospital wing for nerves. More spells backfired as finals drew closer. James constantly saw people with books under their noses, trying to get other people to test them, or muttering spells under their breath. Trying to get as much studying in as possible.

As the four boys walked to dinner, Remus pulled out his transfiguration book. They sat down at the Gryffindor table and Remus started to ask them questions, Peter didn’t mind, he needed all the studying he could get. Sirius just started eating and tried to tune Remus out without luck. They were learning very basic transfiguration, turning a guinea pig into a pin cushion. Remus was practicing turning his glass into an animal and back again. James could transform anything almost effortlessly, much to the annoyance of Remus.

James’ worst class was charms. It was more graceful then transfiguration, and took more concentration on James’ part. Sirius had the same trouble as James.

After James was done eating, he pulled out his charms book. He charmed anything around him, to levitate, and do other simple tasks. They studied at the table until all the food was gone. After that, they trooped up to the common room to do more studying.

James was exhausted by the time he collapsed onto his bed. He had studied for all his classes, which had surprised everyone. James slept deeply that night, barely dreaming, but mentally going over all that he had studied that night.



“Name all the ingredients that it takes to make the Draught of the Living Dead.” James quizzed Remus in the free time they had in Transfiguration. Remus thought about it while Peter whispered the answer from behind them.

James turned around, astounded that Peter had gotten the answer right. “How did you know?”

“I studied last night.” Peter answered, embarrassed.

“Now class,” interrupted Professor McGonagall. “We will resume reviewing turning pin needles into feathers.”

Every class for the rest of the week reviewed what they had learned from the beginning of the school year. At the end of everyday the four boys would study until they couldn’t stay awake any longer. James was exhausted but he felt confident that he would pass his exams.

When exam week came around, a silence fell over the castle where everyone was too wrapped up in studying to talk to anyone. That morning at breakfast, Professor McGonagall, head of Gryffindor house, walked along the table handing out exam schedule. When she handed out the boys schedule, they all checked to see what exams they had together. They only had three classes.

James’ first two exams were tomorrow, so he stayed up all night studying, along with his fellow Gryffindor’s. When he finally went to bed, it was nearly twelve o’clock. He woke up early the next morning so that he could study more. The next few days followed that patterned. The boys took all their exams by Friday, and had the weekend to pack and on Sunday was the end of the year feast.

“We made it!” Sirius yelled joyfully as he fell onto the couch. James, Remus and Peter laughed and jumped up and down with joy. It was like the dense blanket that had fallen onto the castle during exams was lifted. Everyone was smiling and laughing now that the pressure was off.

That night, all the Gryffindors’ were in the common room, eating and drink what the older students had conjured up. No one stopped laughing until Professor McGonagall came into the room to tell them all to go to bed. There was some grumbling, but soon people started heading up to their rooms.

The excitement of soon being on summer break didn’t disperse the next day. The four boys walked to the tree near the lake. They skipped rocks on the glassy surface, joked, and laughed when Peter fell in the water.

The end of the year feast was piled high with food, more food than there had ever been before. Dumbledore made a small speech about the year going by and when the Hogwarts Express was going to leave for Kings Cross Station the next morning.

That night, all five boys in the dormitory regretfully packed their bags. The room was empty when they all went to sleep. Sunday was happy and sad, people were making arrangements to stay over at other peoples house, and see each other. Students didn’t want to leave the castle that they had grown accustom to throughout the year.

The four boys agreed to spend as much time as possible with each other. James worried about Lily, since they lived so close to each other, if his friends would take advantage of it.

The scarlet steam engine gleamed in the morning sun. The boys managed to find a compartment to themselves. They played exploding snap and ate as much snacks as they could when the trolley came by. Though the journey back home was fun, James couldn’t help but wonder what was hidden behind that door. He figured that it wasn’t important to him, it was Dumbledore’s business.



A man wearing a dark billowing cloak approached the school. He held an air of immense evil. He walked right into the castle and to the fifth floor and opened the fifth door. He managed to bypass all the obstacles. He finally got to the last challenge, a demon made of fire. He shot ice at it multiple times before he finally hit his target.

The door in front of him opened on its own. He walked through and saw that the table was empty. He yelled in rage as he saw how close he had been to getting what he wanted. He couldn’t stand that Dumbledore had beaten him again.


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Part 2

Chapter 1: Best Summer

“James wake up will you?” screamed Sirius from down stairs. Sirius was staying at the Potters’ house this summer. James rolled over and sat up. He could hear Sirius’ feet pounding on the stairs as he raced up them. Suddenly, there was Sirius, standing in the doorway.

“James, you will never guess who is here!” said Sirius excitedly.

“Fine, who’s here?” asked James.

“Remus!” Sirius said. James raised an eyebrow. Sirius stepped into the hallway outside James’ bedroom and walked back in towing Remus behind him. James jumped off his bed.

“Hey Remus! How has your summer been?” Remus didn’t look too good. He was pale and looked like he didn’t have enough sleep, but he was grinning wildly.

“I’ve been fine. How have you guys been?” Remus asked.

“Keeping busy.” answered Sirius, grinning. James and Sirius had been doing nothing but sneaking around. They tried to go into Lily’s house, but it didn’t end to well. Remus just shook his head.

“Remus, are you alright, you don’t look too good.” James pointed out.

“Oh, yeah, I’ve been, doing stuff. Been busy.” Remus stammered.

“Okay, if you say so.” James said.

“Boys! Time for breakfast!” Mrs. Potter called up the stairs. Sirius and Remus left and went down stairs as James got changed.

After breakfast, Remus disappeared for an hour as Sirius and James went to an abandoned lot and threw a ball back and forth on their brooms. Presently, Remus came up to them and jumped on to an extra broom James had brought along.

“Where did you go?” asked Sirius.

“Um, just walking around.” answered Remus.

Sirius and James looked at each other but accepted Remus’s thin excuse. They stayed out all day, goofing around and playing mock quidditch.

“Why couldn’t Peter come?” asked James after they had walked back to the house.

“He couldn’t come, I wrote to him to ask him if he could, but he said something about his family.” Remus answered.

“Okay, at least we will see him at school.” Sirius said.



Remus slipped away again and ran over to Lily’s house. It was about a block away. Remus was there just this afternoon. Lily and Remus had become really close friends, which could be bad for Remus if James ever found out. It was getting late out as Remus climbed up to Lily’s window and knocked. Lily was startled by Remus’s appearance, but let him in.

“What are you doing here?” whispered Lily as she helped Remus through the window.

“Lily, why don’t you just talk to James?” asked Remus. Lily rolled her eyes.

“Is that why you came over? To ask me, again, to talk to James?” Lily asked.

“Please Lils, he’s dying without you. You guys were best friends, now your fighting over what? That James was jealous that Sirius liked you? This is ridiculous.” Remus admitted. Lily thought in silence for a few moments. She paced up and down a few times. Finally she made up her mind.

“James is mean, he picks on people, and he tried to kiss me! Gross!” Lily said. Remus shook his head.

“What time is it?” Remus asked as he looked around for a clock.

“Almost seven,” Lily said.

“I have to go, think about it.” Remus said, jumping out of the window.



“Hey, Remus, where have you been?” asked James. Remus shrugged and mumbled something about taking a walk. James stared at Remus but didn’t pursue the subject.

“Heard word of Lily, James?” asked Sirius. James scowled. Sirius just looked at James, expecting an answer.

“No, I haven’t.” James said. Remus fidgeted on the blankets that Mrs. Potter had laid out for him. “Go to sleep.” James continued, and promptly rolled onto his side, his back facing Sirius.

James woke up the next morning with a start, as a pillow fell off of him and onto the floor. Sirius snorted and threw another pillow at Remus. “Wake up.” he said. James and Remus grumbled and tried to fall back to sleep.

The sunlight was streaming in through the window on the far wall by the time Remus and James got out of bed. Sirius had left a long time ago to get something to eat. James had realized that it doesn’t matter how much Sirius eats, he never gets full.

Remus and James finally got up and went down stairs, bleary eyed, to eat breakfast. It was almost eight, and Sirius was bouncing off the walls. The two boys sat down at the table as Mrs. Potter placed pancakes in front of them.

“Thanks mom.” said James.

“Yeah, thanks Mrs. Potter.” Remus said.

“Mom, what’s up with Sirius?” James asked in a low voice.

“I think he had a little too much syrup on his pancakes.” Mrs. Potter smiled as she returned to the sink.

“James! Guess what! Did you know that you can see for miles if you just tippy toe?” Sirius was saying at hyper speed. James gave him a strange look and returned to his breakfast. Remus snorted into his plate.

“Remus you would never guess what red hair girl is walking down the street right now!” Sirius continued. Remus’ eyes went wide, and James looked around. They both ran to the window to see Lily walking past the Potter House.

James ran to the door and threw it open. He leaned in the doorway, trying to act cool. “Hey Lily.” James said. She didn’t even slow her pace.

“Lily!” Sirius said, running out of the door and running into James, knocking them both to the ground. Remus snickered as he came up behind them.

“Hi Remus!” Lily called as she rounded the corner. The two boys stopped fighting to stare at Remus. Remus went back to the table and finished eating.

“Why did Lily say hi to you?” asked James.

“Why can’t she say hi to me?” retorted Remus. James opened and closed his mouth but no sound came out. Finally he grumbled and finished eating.

“So,” Remus started, trying to lighten the mood.

James just ruffled his jet black hair, as he usually does, and got something else to eat. Sirius ruffled his shaggy black hair, but it didn’t have the same affect. Remus laughed at Sirius’ attempt.

“What do you want to do today?” asked Remus. James’ eyes gleamed with an idea.

The boys hopped on brooms that they found outside the Potters’ house and zoomed down the streets. They were weaving in and out of parked cars and moving so fast that muggles wouldn’t be able to see them clearly. They flew clear across town until the houses became few and far between. They landed in a very desolate area, a wide stretch of land that looked like it had been burned. There were tall pine trees surrounding the area. They landed in the middle of the charred space and dismounted.

“What are we doing here James?” asked Sirius.

“Do you know how to get back?” Remus asked.

“We can do whatever we want here. And yes, I do know how to get back.” James answered.

“Why don’t we race?” Sirius suggested.

“There is no course in this place.” Remus said.

“We can race through the trees.” said Sirius. With that, Sirius jumped on his broom and took off into the woods. Remus and James were right behind him.


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Chapter 2: The New Year

The summer ended all too soon. Remus, James and Sirius spent every second of what was left of it in the air. Just a few weeks before the new term started, they got their book list. They flooed to Diagon Alley the next week and bought all the books they would need for the new school year.

“I wish they had a decent joke shop here.” Sirius had said.

“Maybe someone will open one up some time.” James said.

“We should open one up!” Sirius said.

James scoffed, “Yeah right, we don’t have anything to sell.”

“We could sell our ideas.”

James laughed as they headed back to the fireplace and floo home.

Now it was the day before they returned to Hogwarts. The boys were forced to pack early so that they weren’t scrambling around the next day. The boys were running back and forth down the hall, and into the bedrooms trying to find all their missing belongings.

“Have you seen my socks?” yelled Sirius from one of the rooms.

“No!” Remus and James hollered back.

James was walking around his room, clothes strewn all over the floor. He walked past his window which over looked the street. He stopped and looked down, not seeing anyone, he continued to pace around his room. He stooped quickly to pick up a crumpled shirt off the ground and throw it into his truck, just to make it seem like he was doing something.

“Stop daydreaming and help me find my socks!” Sirius hollered, his foot just trespassing into James room. James shrugged before following Sirus on the quest to find his missing socks.

They walked into a room across the hall from James’. This room equally had clothes thrown everywhere. James moved a pillow off the ground and through Sirius a rolled up ball of socks. James walked back into his room and gathered all the clothes on the ground in his arms. He then threw them all into his trunk and shut and locked the lid.



“Come on boys!” Mrs. Potter called. “You guys packed last night and we still might be late!”

James rolled over in bed and sat up. He walked out of his room and into Sirius’. Seeing him still asleep, James threw a pillow at Sirius. Sirius sat up, trashing around. Finding the pillow, Sirius threw it back at James. He laid down as if to go to sleep again.

“Geez, James, now I can’t sleep.”

“That was the point, get up.”

James moved out into the hall and saw Remus walk down the stairs, dragging his trunk behind him. James followed shortly after with his trunk. Sirius lumbered down the stairs with his trunk minutes later. They all had a hurried breakfast and loaded the trunks into the car. Everyone piled into the car and were off in a few minutes.

They arrive at Kings Cross station twenty minutes later, with five minutes to spare. They rushed to platform 9 3/4 and ran straight at the barrier and just made it as a huge gout of steam was released from the gleaming red steam engine.

“Good bye!” Mrs. Potter called.

“Bye boys, be good!” Mr. Potter said.

“Bye mom! Bye dad!” James answered.

“Thanks for having us.” said Remus and Sirius. The whistle blew and the three boys jumped onto the train as it began to move.

They walked down the corridor, peering into each compartment looking for one that was empty. They came to the end of the train, and not finding any empty compartments, Remus and Sirius pointed to the one compartment they saw Peter sitting in.

“Hey Peter, how was your summer?” asked Remus, sitting across from him.

“It was okay. Sorry I couldn’t come over James.” said Peter without a stutter.

“It’s cool.” James sat down, looking at the other people in the compartment. Lily was sitting in far corner, looking out of window, her flame of red hair covering any expression on her face. Kate sat next to her, dark red hair pushed back into a ponytail.

“Hey James.” Kate said brightly. “How was your summer?”

“It was great, and yours?” answered James.

It was good! My parents and I went north and went skiing for about a month.”

Sirius sat across from Lily, much to the annoyance of James, and started asking her about her summer. The train ride was very uneventful until the lunch cart came. Between all of them, they nearly bought everything off the cart. James and Remus had fun crawling over everyone trying to catch their chocolate frogs. They only stopped stepping over everyone when their frogs decided to jump out of the window.

A few hours later, the train pulled to halt in Hogsmeade station. Everyone got off the train and all the students (not including first years) made their way over to the horseless carriages.

“I wonder how these things work.” Sirius said.

“Magic of course.” Remus said as the carriage began to move.

They passed the stone gargoyles guarding the entrance gates and up to the stone steps. The four boys and two girls walked into the entrance hall and sat down at their house table. A few minutes later all the new first years walked into the hall. They looked frightened and were huddled close to one another. They reached the front steps and McGonagall started calling their names up to be sorted.

“I’m starving!” complained Sirius.

“Why are we not surprised.” Remus said, not even looking at Sirius, but keeping his attention on the first years.

Sirius growled at Remus and clutched his stomach as it gave a savaged grow to be fed. After what seemed like forever to Sirius, the sorting was over. The food appeared through the table and appeared on the golden plates laid out in front of them. Sirius immediately started digging into the mountain of food laid out. The food then disappeared to be replaced by dessert. After all the food was gone, and the plates were once again spotless, Dumbledore, the headmaster, stood up to speak.

“Welcome students, and welcome back to our older students. I will not keep you long, as you all should get a good night sleep for your classes tomorrow. Just a few reminders, Mr. Flitch, our caretaker, has a list of banded objects that can be seen in his office. Also to our new students, and a reminder to our older students, the Forbidden Forest is off bounds. That is all, now off to bed. Good night.”


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Chapter 3: At the Beginning

The next day was as normal as ever, or, as normal as it could ever get at Hogwarts. Classes resumed, first years were lost, and teachers were relentless. Sirius, Remus, James and Peter all managed to be in the same classes. James was disappointed that he only managed to be in one of Lily’s classes.

The boys just came out of Transfiguration and were walking down the stairs, headed toward lunch. They came to the landing above the last staircase before the Great Hall. Sirius tripped over something and hit the ground, hard. Sirius rolled over and started to get up. Something stopped him. It was the shoe of a fifth year.

“Did you run into me?” the fifth year said. He was huge, with blonde hair and blue gray eyes.

“It was an accident.” Sirius said, trying to remove the foot from his chest.

“Apologize.” the fifth year growled.

Before Sirius could reply with his own snarl, the fifth years’ foot was removed from his chest. He stood up and saw James standing with his fist raised and a purple lump swelling on the boys check. A crowd began to gather around them. Not so much to see any fighting, as to get to lunch.

The boy stood up and leaped at James. The boy crashed into James who was thrown into a tapestry. Sirius launched himself at the boy and tackled him. No one saw James disappear through the tapestry and land with a crash into the far wall. Remus and Peter helped pull Sirius off the boy. They tried to hold them apart until Professor McGonagall came down, attracted by the noise of the growing crowd.

“That’s enough! Everyone, get to lunch.” McGonagall said, breaking up the crowd just by her presence. McGonagall rounded on the four boys in the corridor. “What happened here?”

“Sirius accidentally tripped over this guy here and he stepped on him.” Peter explained.

“Yeah,” the boy said. “This boy punched me.” Everyone looked around, not seeing James.

“Who was the boy.” McGonagall asked. No one answered. McGonagall stared hard at all of them until they cracked.

“Alright, James punched him.”

McGonagall looked at the boy saying. “Rylei, you, and James will both serve detention tonight in the potions classroom.” McGonagall left them standing there. Rylei left instantly.

The other three boys almost left until they remembered James wasn’t with them.

“Where did he go?” asked Sirius.

“I saw his crash into the tapestry.” said Remus.

They three boys walked over to the tapestry and Sirius pushed his hand forward to lean against the tapestry. His hand fell through the tapestry along with the rest of his body. Sirius crashed to the floor on the other side of what they thought was a wall.

Remus and Peter stepped through the tapestry and saw Sirius crouched next to James who was knocked unconscious from the blow to the head. Remus and Sirius picked up James and struggled to carry him to the Hospital Wing. As they walked past the Great Hall and past the entrance to the dungeons, Lily, Kate, and Suzanne stepped out chattering.

“What happened?” Kate asked concerned.

“James got knocked out.” grunted Remus.

“Here, let me.” Lily said, whipping out her wand. Remus, Peter and Sirius all stared fearfully at what she would do and tried to get James out of the way.

“Don’t worry.” Lily said, rolling her eyes. She arched her wand in a semicircle then flicked it at James. Remus and Sirius let go of James and walked with Lily, Kate, Suzanne and Peter to the hospital.

“What do we have here?” asked Madam Pomfrey, the matron. She moved over to one of the beds in the ward and gestured for Lily to put James on the bed.

“A guy pushed him into the wall.” Remus said. Madam Pomfrey clucked her tongue disapprovingly.

“Alright, he should be fine by tonight, but I will keep him over night in case any damage was done.” Madam Pomfrey informed the group. “You should go back to your classes.”

They all trooped out of the room and into the Great Hall to try and catch the last bit of lunch. Remus, Sirius and Peter finished all of their classes for the day then went to see Professor McGonagall.

“Professor?” started Remus.

“Yes Mr. Lupin?” Professor McGonagall answered.

“Well, it was about James’ detention.” Remus said, knowing how strange this was sounding. “Well, he is in the hospital over night so he can’t do the detention.”

“Did Mr. Potter tell you this?” McGonagall asked skeptically.

“No ma’am. You could ask Madam Pomfrey, James is there.” Remus said.

“Okay, thank you Mr. Lupin.” McGonagall said, in a tone that made it clear she had nothing else to discuss with them.

The three boys walked up to the Hospital Wing to visit James later on that very day. He was awake, but had a thick bandage bound around his head.

“How are you?” asked Sirius, pulling up a chair next to James’ bed, along with Remus and Peter.

“I feel okay, what happened with the fight?” asked James groggily.

“Well, you have detention.” Peter said. James groaned.

“Good job.” Sirius said sarcastically.

“What was that corridor behind that tapestry?” asked James.

“We don’t know,” Remus said. “We didn’t look too closely at it as we were more worried about you. We quickly got you out and carried you here.”

“Well, thanks.” James said.

“You should thank Lily.” Remus said.

“Why?” James’ heart started beating fast at the mere mention of Lily’s name.

“Well, we couldn’t carry you, so she did.” Sirius answered. James hummed a reply in his throat.

“James, are you sure you’re okay?” asked Peter.

“I feel fine, my head hurts a bit, but that’s what happens when you hit a wall.” James shrugged, wincing as a ripple of pain crossed his face. It was subtle, no one noticed.

“Did I miss anything important today?” asked James.

“You mean besides that fight? No, it was school as normal.” Sirius answered.

“Good news is, I’ll be out of here by tomorrow.” James said.

“Yeah, that’s great.” Remus said. “Isn’t tomorrow night the full moon?” he added casually.

“I think so, why?” asked Sirius.

“Just wondering.” he answered

“Come on, we should go, see you later James.” Sirius said.

“Bye guys.”

The boys walked back to their dormitory and tried to get some sleep. For Remus, sleep was nearly impossible since his mind was troubled by the terrible fate that awaited him the next day.


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Chapter 4: Secret Revelation

James was let out of the hospital the next day and had to serve his detention that night.

“It was so worth it.” James commented before he was released.

James was let go just after breakfast and had to go to all of his classes, much to his disappointment. Remus was out of focus most of the day, not really talking to any of them. Everyone asked him what was wrong. He just shrugged and said that he was fine.

Classes were just as boring to everyone except Remus, who still managed to pay attention in his unfocused state. Finally lunch came around and the corridor was thick with students trying to grab something to eat. James looked around him and saw the tapestry the fifth year, Rylei, had pushed him through. James nudged Sirius, Remus and Peter to follow him. He stepped through the tapestry and into a corridor similar to the one he just left, just with no people around.

They followed the passage until it ended with another tapestry on the left. James opened it and stepped out two floors below and right outside the Great Hall. James looked at the other boys with a mischievous smile in place. They found a secret corridor within Hogwarts. They all walked into the Great Hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table and ate lunch before their next classes.

“Imagine what else we could find in this school. There must be a dozen hidden passages in this school.” James chatted animatedly. “What if we recorded everything we saw.”

“What, like make a map?” Sirius scoffed. James’ eyes grew bright with the thought. “I was joking.” Sirius said.

“What? That’s a great idea!” said James. “We could make a map of Hogwarts.”

“That does sound like a good idea actually.” said Remus. Peter nodded in agreement.

“Are you guys sure?” Sirius said.

“Yeah! We could pass it on to younger students when we leave Hogwarts.” Remus said. Sirius was coming around, seeing that this would be fun.

“Okay, but we would have to figure out how to map Hogwarts on paper.” Sirius said. The boys smiled at the new goal they set for themselves.

The bell rang and everyone scrambled to their next class. The rest of the day pasted without a problem. At nearly seven o’clock James was in the Hospital Wing, since Rylei had finished with the potions’ classroom. It was a cloudless night and the full moon was just beginning to appear over the horizon. James was to scrub all the bed pans (no magic) and make all the beds in the ward. Madam Pomfrey had left about half an hour ago. He had no idea where she went, but at least she trusted him enough to not cheat out of his detention.

James straightened up and stared out of the window. He watch as the full moon came completely into view. He looked down across the lawn and saw the front doors open. Light streamed out on the grass. Two silhouette figures appeared against the bright light of the open doors. One of the figures crumpled over the lawn. The other figure help the fallen up and to a tree in the middle of the lawn. James leaned forward and saw the two figures were Madam Pomfrey and Remus. Remus looked like he was in agony. He was getting bigger, and kept stumbling.

James strained his eyes to see what was happening. James rubbed his eyes and squinted harder to make sure he was seeing things right. It really couldn’t be possibly, but it did make sense.

Remus was transforming into a werewolf. A werewolf! His best friend! He kept watching, staring horrified as Remus let out a howl. Madam Pomfrey had taken out her wand and shoved Remus toward the tree. The tree didn’t seem normal, it kept whipping and snapping its branches at the intruders. It didn’t stop until Madam Pomfrey pointed her wand at it. Remus disappeared into the tree. Literally. He was there, then he just wasn’t.

James’ eyes were wide as he went slowly back to his task. How could he possibly concentrate on these mindless tasks when Remus just transformed into a dangerous werewolf. James whipped out his wand and finished his chores. He ran out of the hospital and up to the dormitory. He shouted the password at the Fat Lady and tumbled into the common room.

“Sirius! Peter! Where are you?” James shouted, stunning everyone in the room into silence.

“What is it?” asked Sirius from the window. James walked calmly over to them and leaned in to whisper what he just witnessed into both of their ears.

“Are you sure?” asked Sirius. James gave him a blank stare. “Right, of course you’re sure. What do we do?”

“We can’t let him know that we know.” said James “He spent a long time keeping it from us. He will have to tell us in his own time, if he wants to.”

“We should help him somehow.” suggested Peter.

“What could we possibly do to help a werewolf?” asked Sirius. “Its not like we could keep him company.”

James’ eyes sparkled. “Or, we could do just that.”

“What? Keep him company?” Sirius laughed. “That would be impossible.”

“Not really. I over heard a few sixth years talking about animagi. Where humans can turn into an animal.” James said.

“And how would that help?” asked Peter. “He could still bite us.”

“That’s just it! A werewolf bite doesn’t affect animals, only humans!” James smiled brightly at his accomplished knowledge. Sirius smiled.

“How would be able to do change into this - this animagus?” asked Peter.

“I dunno. We would have to look it up.” James said. Sirius made a face.

“Does that mean going to the... library?” he asked.

“Yes. But I don’t think Madam Prince will give a sixth year book to second year’s.” James said.

“And we don’t know any sixth years to ask.” said Sirius.

“Well, we’ll have to find one. We should try and help Remus.” James said. A loud howl came from outside and the three looked out of the window.


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Chapter 5: The Solution

Remus walked up to his dormitory at nearly four in the morning. He was pale and extremely weak. He whispered the password to the Fat Lady and crawled up to his bed. He immediately fell asleep, unaware of a pair of eyes staring at him in the dark.

James had been worried about Remus since he remembered the morning he had found Remus scratched within an inch of his life and trying to act like nothing was wrong. He had to make sure Remus at least made it to bed. When he saw Remus stagger into the room, asleep on his feet, he felt better, knowing that Remus was alright.

Everything that year had seem to be going abnormally fast. James, Sirius and Peter had decided to hide the fact that they knew Remus was a werewolf, and kept giving him a hard time when he said he was leaving once a month.

James, Peter and Sirius would hide away in the library for hours, reading about how to become an animagi. Turned out they didn’t need a sixth year to get the books they wanted. After reading the basics, they found that trying to be an animagi would be tough work. It would take years before they could accompany Remus on any full moon excursions.

“Do you think we can pull this off?” asked Sirius.

“Sure, we have the best grades in transfiguration.” answered James.

“What about me?” Peter interjected.

“We can help you more.” suggested Sirius. Peter scowled.

“Sirius, we won’t be able to shift shape until fifth year!” James said. Sirius groaned, which immediately turned into resolute.

“Oh well, at least we will be helping Remus, that’s important.” he said.

“What are you guys doing in a library?” asked an incredulous voice that made them all jump.

“Why can’t we be in the library?” asked James, without knowing who he was talking to. He turned around to see who was behind him.

Lily Evans. He flame of hair waving down the length of her back. James stopped moving and stared wide eyed at Lily.

“Well, I just never thought you cared enough to look in a book.” she answered. James’ answer was to stare back until Sirius nudged him.

“Well, something important came up.” he mumbled.

“Wow, did you just find that out last night?” she asked.

“Why do you ask?” asked James suspiciously.

Lily shrugged. “No reason.” With that she spun on her heel and walked deeper into the labyrinth of the library.

“What do you suppose that was about?” asked Peter.

“You think she knew?” asked Sirius.

“She could have. She dropped a pretty big hint. ‘Last night.’” said James.

“She can’t know what we are up to though.” Sirius said.

“Of course not! We just started research today.” replied James.

“Well then why did she asked if we found it out last night?” asked Sirius.

“Um, maybe she was just mentioning it. Like we were stupid or something and we couldn’t figure anything out.” said Peter.

“How does she know we figured anything out? We just said something important came up.” said James. Sirius and Peter shrugged. “Okay, lets go back to the dormitory.”

James closed the book that laid open on his lap and replaced it on the shelf. Sirius and Peter did the same with the pile of books they had taken off the shelves. Once they finished with all the books around them, they headed up to bed to think over everything they learned.



Months passed. The air started turning crisp and sharp with ice particles of passing snow storms. Blotches of snow started appearing on the lawn down to the lake. With every month that passed, Remus’ excuses became more and more believable. If the three hadn’t known the truth, they would have almost believed him. Every time the full moon came about, Remus managed to get in a miraculous accident that got him into the hospital. That gave him about three days. He got that injured. But not before the full moon.

“We have to learn to be animagi soon.” muttered Sirius as they watched Remus pour over a book of practical jokes.

“Okay, but how would we mention it to him once we can turn into animals?” whispered James back.

“I don’t think that far ahead. Why don’t we just take it as it comes.” said Sirius.

They didn’t talk about Remus or trying to be an animagi’s again for a few weeks. James, Remus, Sirius and Peter frequently used the hidden corridor they found. They tried to find other hidden passages, but that was proving impossible. They just had to find them on accident.

That accident found them one day. Remus was walking with his nose in a book on the seventh floor. He couldn’t pay attention to where he was walking since he was so focused on his book. When he looked up a huge door with intricate drawings upon it appeared. Intrigued, Remus opened the door. His mouth feel open. He couldn’t help it.

Behind the door was like his book had come to life. He had been reading a transfiguration book. There were birds in cages hanging on the wall. Teacups were running around on tables beneath clear plastic barriers. A few books were piled on the desk against one wall. Remus came to his senses and closed his mouth. He had to tell his friends about this. He turned around and sprinted out of the room, closing the door behind him. He ran down to the Gryffindor common room. He spotted James, Sirius and Peter sitting next to the fire trying, and failing, to do their homework. Remus ran right up to them and started grabbing their sleeves, trying to get them to move without an explanation.

“Remus, what’s going on?” asked James, as Remus dragged him out of the portrait hole.

“I found something.” he answered.

“What? Was it another hidden passageway?” asked Sirius, who was following Remus by himself.

“No, this is different.” Remus said, letting go of James and practically running to where he found the hidden room.

James, Sirius and Peter were running just to keep up with Remus. He took them right up to the wall where the door had appeared.

“There was a door right here.” Remus said, dumbfounded.

“You sure?” asked Peter.

“Yeah, it was right across from that tapestry.” Remus answered. He paced in front of the door, thinking about where the door was. Sirius joined him in pacing. After the third time past the empty wall, a door manifested itself in front of them.

“Whoa.” breathed Sirius, looking up at the door. Sirius opened it to find his imagination appeared behind the door. Everything that Sirius was thinking as he paced was there.

“Pudding? What is up with all this pudding?” asked James, stepping into the room behind Sirius.

There was one small shelf taken up with ten books of different types of pudding, and how to make pudding. Other than that shelf, all the other selves lining the walls were taken up with every flavor, and color of pudding ever made. The room was close to the size of a cathedral, and the rows of shelves continued up the walls until they disappeared into the dark from the scarce lighting.

“I was thinking of pudding.” Sirius said with a slight shrug. Remus raised an eyebrow in disbelief. “What? I like pudding.” Sirius said. He walked over to a table in the middle of the room, where the was a line of basic flavored pudding. He started eating one, murmuring, “Mm, this is good.”

“How exactly did we get this door open?” asked Remus.

“I was thinking of pudding and it opened.” said Sirius.

“James, Peter, were you guys thinking of anything?” asked Remus.

“I was thinking of Defense Against the Dark Arts homework.” said Peter.

“I was thinking of chicken.” said James.

“It must have been something else that you did Sirius.” said Remus, turning back to Sirius.

“I was walking back and forth like what you were doing.” said Sirius.

“You mean pacing.” corrected Remus.

“Yeah.” said Sirius.

“Well that must be it, lets try it.” said Remus, heading for the door. Peter and James followed him, with Sirius reluctantly leaving the pudding. As soon as the door closed, it melted back into the wall, leaving no trace it was ever there.

“Sirius, think of something and walk past the wall.” instructed Remus.

Sirius did as he was told and thought of food, as always. He walked past the wall as Remus kept count how many times he walked by the same spot. After the third walk by, the door appeared again. Sirius smiled at the other three, they smiled back. They had found another hidden room to go to.


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Chapter 6: The Third Spell

After their new discovery, it raised the urge even more to start making a map of their discoveries. Remus started going to the library to see how all the floors of Hogwarts could be seen on one, big piece of paper. Sirius had the great idea that they could put all the people in Hogwarts on the map. Make them seen where they are, what their doing, of every minute, of every day. Remus had pointed out how advanced the magic would be to do that for generations to come, when everyone they knew would be long gone from Hogwarts.

“Guys, we should go.” Remus said.

“You go, we’ll catch up with you in the common room.” said James.

“Alright, later.” said Remus. He packed up the books he borrowed from the library and put away all the other books he had taken off the shelves. He swung his backpack over his shoulder and headed out of the library.

“Finally, I thought we could never work on this.” James said. He removed the top book about advanced spells and pointed to the animagus book underneath.

“Yeah, we have a lot of work to do if we want to change shape by fifth year.” Sirius said. James scanned the column and looked up, a worried smile dancing across his face. “What?”

“Well, if we manage to become animagi, we will be doing it illegally.” said James.

“Not ‘if we manage’, when we manage.” Sirius said.

“Not the point. We will be breaking the law when we manage to become animagi. We can hardly sign up, since we are under age. The good news is, there are so few people that are animagi that if we change in front of someone, they wouldn’t believe it.” James said.

“How come there are so few people that become animagi’s?” asked Peter.

“Well, it’s so hard to become one that most people don’t bother.” explained James. Peter nodded.

They continued to pour over the books, learning the spells that became permanent when cast on a human. They had to make sure they got it right the first time. They practiced on books and food until they were confident enough to cast them upon themselves. The only bad part was that there was many more spells to be cast upon themselves before they could even think about changing shape.

“What animal will we turn into?” asked Peter one day. James looked at one book among the infinite books that always accompanied them when they came into the library.

“Looks like we won’t choose what we turn into. Whatever animal we turn into will reflect our personality instead of what animal we like best.” answered James. Peter groaned and kept looking for the next spell they needed to cast on themselves.

Since Peter wasn’t quite as smart as James or Sirius in transfiguration, they had to spend extra time helping Peter to cast the spell properly. They had only managed to cast two spells on themselves in the few months that they have been researching to become animagi’s. Finding the spells to do that were proving to be difficult. Finding them in the right order was even harder. They constantly doubled and tripled checked which order the spells came in.

“Found one!” said Peter happily. James stood up and stepped over the books to reach Peter and see what the spell was.

“Teresmen. Weird spell. Is that the third spell?” asked James, stepping back to his chair and mountain of books.

“Yes, it says right here: ‘teresmen is the third spell to be performed by the human wishing to be an animagus.’” read Peter.

“Well, it can’t get anymore straight forward then that.” shrugged James. He started putting the books away and took up the book that mentioned how to perform the spell.

They walked up to Madam Prince and filled out a sheet stating what book they borrowed and their names. They made their way up to the common room slowly. James stuffed the book hurriedly into his backpack on the way. Once inside the dormitory, James hid the book in his trunk, to be read later. James straightened up as Thomas Genami, their fifth room mate, walked into the room.

“Hey Thomas, how are you?” asked James nervously.

“I’m fine.” answered Thomas, a little distracted. He raised a hand to push his fine blonde hair out of his eyes. He looked back at James.

“I haven’t seen much of you.” said James.

“I’ve been busy.” he answered shortly. He walked past James and left the dormitory. Sirius came in, flattening himself against the doorframe to allow Thomas to walk past.

“Whoa.” Sirius said. “Is he okay?”

“I’m not sure.” James answered slowly. He walked with Sirius out of the dormitory and into the common room where they found Remus sitting by the fire.

“Hey Remus, find anything more about the spells for the map?” asked James.

“Yeah, but they are seventh year level spells.” replied Remus. “We will just have to write out everything that we find so that we don’t forget it or where it is.”

“Good idea.” said Sirius. “So it will only take until seventh year to draw out all of Hogwarts by hand.” James grinned.

“Well, it’s the only plan now.” said Remus. He shut the book lightly and took it up to the dormitory. For fear of Remus finding their animagus book, which couldn’t happen, they followed him up.

“What can we do on the map?” asked James. “I mean, without any spells that are too advanced.”

“We can start putting basic charms on it.” answered Remus. “Do you really want anyone to just read the map?”

“What do you mean? Putting a spell on the map to make it unreadable. Unless you have a - a password?” said Peter.

“Yeah! What would the password be?” asked Sirius.

“It would have to be something that no one would guess.” muttered Remus. “Like a phrase maybe, instead of just one word. So that someone would have to know the password from us.”

“Great idea.” said James. “So, any suggestion?” Everyone stared back at him blankly, trying to think of a phrase. “Okay, we’ll come back to that.”

“That is really all we can do right now. Besides drawing out Hogwarts.” said Remus after a long silence.

“Lets talk about this in the morning.” suggested Sirius, climbing into his bed near the door. He pulled the curtains around his bed to hide him from view.

James nodded and climbed into the bed next to Sirius’ and closed the curtains. Remus and Peter also went to their beds and soon their snores filled the dormitory.

“C’mon Sirius, wake up.” hissed James into Sirius’ ear. Sirius wacked at James and rolled over. James walked over to Peter’s bed.

“Peter. Peter! Wake up!” whispered James.

“What?” asked Peter, a little too loud. James clamped a hand over Peter’s mouth and looked at Remus’ bed. No movement.

“Peter wake up and come with me.” James tried again. Peter groaned softly, but reluctantly got out of bed. James walked back over to Sirius’ bed and tried to wake him up.

“Sirius, don’t force me to wake you up.” James threatened. Sirius cracked an eye open. “Come on!” James tugged on Sirius’ arm to get him out of bed.

“Fine!” he hissed and got up.

“Thank you.” The three boys walked to their trunks and got dressed.

They sneaked out of the dormitory without waking Remus or Thomas. Sirius yawned and looked at his watch, 6:30.

“James, it’s Saturday, is it necessary to be up this early?” questioned Sirius.

“Yes, if we want to be up before Remus.” answered James.

“James, we would still be up way before everyone if we woke up an hour later.” Sirius said. James scowled and continued to the library. “We are in the library now more than we are in the dormitory.”

“We just have to get this spell right.” James walked to a desolate table in the back to the library and pulled the book out of his backpack. He flipped it open to the new spell they had to use. He also pulled out an apple he snatched from dinner last night.

“Now, if the book is right, the spell should turn this apple purple for a minute then go back to normal.” James said, pulling out his wand. “Teresmen,” James jerked his wand upward and watched the apple as it turned dark purple. Nearly a minute later the apple turned back to its red original state.

“Does this mean that we will turn purple also?” asked Sirius.

“Yes, it does.” James answered. “Now, you two try it.”

Sirius stepped up first and whipped out his wand. “Teresmen,” He flipped his wand forward. The apple turned the same deep shade of purple as before then turned red again. Peter pulled out his wand next. “Teresmen,” The apple turned purple once again then went back to red.

“Good job Peter. That was really good.” James said. “Now, we try that on ourselves.” James turned his wand on himself and muttered the spell. Sirius and Peter followed his example. They all turned purple for over a minute.

“Shouldn’t we be back to normal again?” asked Sirius worried.

“It would take longer to turn back to our normal color since we take up more space than an apple.” James replied. Another minute later and they were standing in their normal color again. “Okay, now we only have fifty more spells to put on.” James said sarcastically.


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Chapter 7: The Holiday Spirit

Three days before Christmas was about as relaxing as Remus, James, Sirius and Peter could imagine. They had homework to do, except Remus, but they didn’t think about it. They just wanted to think about Christmas. They were all trying to get presents for each other without the others noticing. James had thought long and hard about getting Lily a present, but thought that she would just throw it away if she knew it was from him.

Presently, James was sitting on the window sill, watching the snow build up on the window. It was late at night. Too late to play in the snow. “James?” James looked up and came back to reality.

“Yeah?” James answered, looking around at who had called his name.

“Are you okay?” asked Remus, concerned.

“Oh, yeah. Are you?” said James. Four days ago had been the full moon.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” Remus said. He didn’t look fine, he was still pale.

“Thinking about Lily?” smirked Remus. James scowled but reluctantly nodded. “What are you going to do?”

“What, to win her back?” asked James.

“Not win her back, you weren’t dating her or anything.” replied Remus. “To be friends again?” James shrugged.

“I’m going to bed. See you tomorrow.” James said. He stood up and sluggishly walked up the stairs.

“James. James! C’mon, wake up!” Something hit him hard across the back of the head.

“Ouch!” James sat bolt upright. “What was that?” he yelled.

“Oh, you know, my transfiguration book.” Sirius answered with a shrug. James growled at him. James rolled over, overestimating the length of bed behind him. He hit the air and fell to the floor with a loud thump.

“Ow!” James yelped from the floor. Sirius roared with laughter. James jumped off the floor and charged down Sirius.

Sirius’s eyes went wide as he jumped out the way. He was too slow. James bowled him over. He rolled over Sirius and landed on his back on the opposite side of Sirius. They both got up and tried to put each other in a choke hold.

“Guys! Hey! Knock it off!” yelled Remus, trying to get between the fighting Sirius and James. James and Sirius got away from each other long enough for Remus to put a hand on each of their chests and shove them apart. They kept thrashing their arms around Remus to hit each other. “Stop it!” Remus yelled again.

Miraculously, Sirius and James stopped fighting at Remus’ raised voice. They stepped away from each other and walked over to their beds. James jumped back up to land on his back on his bed.

“What is the matter with you two?” asked Remus. Peter groaned loudly from his bed.

“What’s going on?” slurred Peter groggily.

“James and Sirius were fighting.” answered Remus.

“’Bout what?” asked Peter, rubbing his eyes to wake up.

“Sirius threw a book at my head!” yelled James.

“You tackled me!” Sirius yelled back.

“You laughed when I fell off the bed!” retorted James.

“Who wouldn’t have?” said Sirius with a slight smile.

“Yeah, that would have looked funny.” laughed James. The both started cracking up. Remus and Peter just looked at each other, unbelieving.

“What?” Remus said for the sake of saying something. Sirius and James stopped laughing and looked at Remus.

“What?” they replied together.

“Never mind.” said Remus.

“What’s all the racket?” asked a disembodied voice from within the dormitory. The four boys stopped talking and looked around the room.

“Who said that?” James called out tentatively.

“Me.” replied a pile of blankets on Thomas’s bed.

“Me who?” asked Sirius.

“Me!” the blankets whipped back to reveal a fine skinned face nearly covered with ruffled blonde hair. Thomas pulled a hand up to his face and straightened out his messy hair.

“Sorry Thomas!” said Sirius. Sirius jumped up and changed quickly out of his pajamas and into clothes. He dashed out of the dorm and down the stairs, out of site. James raised an eyebrow at Remus who shrugged. The three boys followed Sirius’ example and quickly changed into clothes.

“Sirius, where are you going?” asked James. Sirius turned around half way out of the portrait hole.

“The library,” answered Sirius. All the people that were sitting in the common room turned toward Sirius, their mouths agape. “What?” Sirius said to everyone. “A guy can’t go to the library?” People turned their heads away, embarrassed.

James, Remus and Peter followed Sirius down several flights of stairs and into the library. They stopped at the door, panting from the run. They lost Sirius. He had escaped into the labyrinth to shelves that stretched on as far as the eye could see.

“Great,” said James. “I guess we go back to the dormitory.” He shrugged at them and turned away.

“I got a better idea.” called Remus.

“What?”

“Want to get breakfast?” he replied. James smiled and nodded.

“What do you want to do today?” asked Peter as they entered the Great Hall. James and Remus looked at each other, then through the open doors behind them. They turned back to the enormous hall with a mischievous gleam in their eyes. They sat down at the Gryffindor table and loaded up their plates with all the food in sight.

“You guys are as bad as Sirius.” Peter squeaked.

“Hats at you et or eing rends it im.” James said incoherently around the pancakes stuffed to a bulging point in his mouth. Remus cracked up with the ridiculousness of the sentence.

“What?” asked Peter. James swallowed, hard.

“I said, that’s what you get for being friends with him.” repeated James.

“Oh yeah, that’s what I thought.” Remus said, his face blank, bobbing his head up and down in agreement. James laughed after taking a sip of orange juice to chase down his huge bite.

“I wonder why Sirius wanted to go to the library.” Remus said, idly pushing his food around his plate. James thought he knew why Sirius wanted to go to the library, but didn’t tell Remus his suspicions.

“Maybe he had a break through on the map.” suggested Peter. James thought that was a very good possibility.

Remus nodded and continued eating. No more people came into the Great Hall than the thirty or so people already in there. Everyone else had gone home for the holidays. Remus had taken the chance in staying at school over Christmas break. Once Remus was done shoving his food across his plate, James was done stuffing his face with food, and Peter was just, done eating, they all ran outside into the snow which was nearly three feet deep.

James, Remus and Peter all ran, or wadded, through the dense snow drift toward the forest, trees towering over the surrounding foliage. They made it all the way to the shadow of the forest before the grounds keeper, Hagrid, literally appeared out of thin air and told them to get away from the forest, it’s forbidden you know.

After the encounter with Hagrid, they decided not to go in the forest, mostly because Hagrid was keeping an eye on them. They walked over to the lake and sat near the shore under the beach tree. They sat there for a long time, watching people coming in and out of the castle. The doors opened again and a boy in their year came out, his face in a book of potions. James nudged Remus and nodded in the boys’ direction. He started laughing, loudly. The boy looked up, his greasy long hair falling out of his face. James laughed harder. The boy looked down his hooked nose into his book and continued reading.

“Who is he?” laughed James. Remus looked at him strangely.

“You don’t know?” answered Remus, incredulous. James shook his head. “He’s in our year, just a Slytherin.”

“What’s his name?”

“Severus Snape.” Remus said.

They continued to watch Snape read his book, sitting under the bushes. A few minutes later Lily came out of the castle and walked right up to Snape. James sat up straighter and strained his ears to what was being said. James couldn’t hear a word, so he contented himself with just watching what they were doing. Lily sat down next to Snape. They started talk about, what James could only guess, was the book he was reading. James sat back after watching them talk for nearly an hour.

“Come on! How can she have a conversation with the grease ball for an hour?! What could they have in common?” James asked finally. Remus looked up at James and sighed.

“Come on! We’ve been sitting here forever! Lets do something!” Remus half shouted in James’ ear. James shook his head, and rubbed the point before his ear, trying to clear the ringing.

Remus’ shouting had made Lily look up finally. James waved. Lily’s face twisted in disgust and looked back at Snape. James dropped his hand into his lap and looked back at Remus. He stood up. Remus and Peter followed his example and started walking toward the quidditch pitch. James snuck into the broom shed and grabbed three brooms. He handed the extra two to Remus and Peter. They all hopped onto their brooms and headed toward the sky.

They flew over the tops of the trees, listening to the shouted curses of Hagrid. They all shouted and cheered in response. They flew to the very heart of the forest. After a while they picked a few trees to rest their feet against. Grinning, the three looked around at the expanse of forest around them. As they looked down into the immense darkness below them, they started wondering what could be down there.

They heard a loud growl followed shortly after by an even louder roar that vibrated the trees and scared all the birds from their roosting spots. Peter, James and Remus got scared and their brooms responded by jumping into the air. They all raced each other back to the grounds. When they landed, Hagrid came up to them and started yelling at them, telling them to go straight to their Head of House. The three put their brooms away and walked into the castle. They walked straight up to their common room, not bothering to go to Professor McGonagall’s office.

“Maybe we should go to McGonagall’s.” Remus said nervously. James looked thoughtful about it then agreed. They would only get in more trouble if McGonagall found out from someone else. They walked into her office and told her their story. She was very mad about them stealing brooms and riding off campus into the forbidden forest. James pointed out that they didn’t actually go into the forest. She got madder. She gave them a week of detention.

“But Professor, what about Christmas?” asked James. McGonagall softened slightly.

“Alright, no detention on Christmas, but you will serve a full week of detention. Now, up to your dormitory, and stay there!” McGonagall dismissed them. They walked out of her office and back up to their dormitory.

“Now what? It’s Christmas Eve and we can’t do anything!” James yelled angrily at the empty common room.

“We could play exploding snap.” suggested Peter.

“Yeah, okay.” James agreed and sat down on the ground with Remus and Peter. Sirius came in through the portrait hole shortly after they started. They played until it was dark outside and they started to get tired. They all went to bed early, in hopes that Christmas would come sooner.

James woke up as the first rays of sun light hit the windows of the castle, making them shine and reflect on the lake below. James sat up and rubbed his eyes sleepily. His brain finally told him what day it was and he stopped rubbing his eyes. He became very alert.

“Remus! Sirius! Peter! Wake up! It’s Christmas!” James shouted, running around the room and shaking everyone’s bed to wake them. They jumped up at the word Christmas.

Everyone got to the end of their bed and started opening their present. James jumped back onto his bed and ripped open his presents.

“Whoa! Thanks Sirius!” James shouted over everyone’s excited clamor. He held the miniature quidditch player in his hand and watched as it mounted its broom and zoom out of his hand. He caught it before it got too far and placed it on his night stand.

He opened up his next present, from Remus. Out of the wrapping came the biggest sack of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans and chocolate frogs. James started at, a look of hunger passing over his face. “Thanks Remus!” James called.

“Thanks James!” Sirius and Remus replied at the same time, holding up the gifts James had given them. James nodded at them in recognition. He opened the biggest present from his parents, his mouth dropping open. The room got quiet as everyone looked at James’ present.

“No way! It can’t be! Who gave it to you?” asked Sirius, coming over to James. James was just staring, he eyes wide.

“My parents.” James said, dumbfounded. James stood up and picked up his new broom. He ran his hand down the sleek handle to the bristled tail.

“James, are you going to ride it?” asked Remus, also coming up to look at his broom.

“Yeah.” James snapped out of his shock and looked at them. “But not right now.” They all came over to admire his new broom. Wondering why on earth his parent would give him a new broom, James opened the rest of his presents.


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Chapter 8: The Last Snow

For the next week, Remus, James and Peter spent their time in detention. Sirius was rolling on the ground from laughter when they told him how they ended up in detention. Sirius hadn’t bothered to explain why he was in the library and James, Remus and Peter hadn’t bothered to ask. Professor McGonagall had the three cleaning out the cages in her room, without magic. There was a cage for every type of animal. There were many different birds in McGongall’s room, from small, finch like birds to huge birds that closely resembled exotic, tropical parrots.

“This is gross.” Peter said, throwing away the dried grass at the bottom of the cage of the biggest bird in the room.

“Yeah, no doubt.” James grunted, trying to control a fluttering, moth sized bird. James clapped one hand around the bird and with the other he yanked on the handle of his wand.

“James! Were not allowed!” Remus said. James looked at him then sighed, withdrawing his hand from his pocket. James scowled as he cleaned the cage with one hand and held the struggling bird with the other.

It was the last day of their detention. There was only a week left of Christmas break and James, Sirius and Peter had homework to finish. The three had begged Remus to let them borrow his homework. He flat out denied it. James, Sirius and Peter struggled with the pile of homework the teachers gave them for the holidays. James looked longingly out of the window as the snow slowly started to gather again. James focused, putting all his concentration into the last paper he had to write for herbology.

It was one o’clock in the morning by the time James, Sirius and Peter got to bed that night. They were stuck in the common room all day, finishing the homework they got. James finally wrote the last word on his herbology paper as his watch beeped one o’clock. James sat back, sighing in the process.

“Glad that’s over.” James remarked.

“Please James, don’t.” Sirius said. James looked at over at him as he put his books back in his bag. He noticed that Sirius and Peter still had mountains of books stacked around them.

“Sorry guys.” James said, swinging his bag over one shoulder and walking to the stairs. “Night!” He walked up the stairs and threw down his bag next to his trunk. He quickly changed into pajamas and fell asleep before he hit the mattress.

After James finished his homework, Sirius and Peter had to work harder to finish all theirs. Remus and James then spent every day of what was left of their break outside, in the snow. Remus always brought a book when James would start making fun of Snape. James seemed to not make fun of Snape without Sirius there. Remus and James managed to sneak into many places, finding a few more secret passages.

A week without Sirius or Peter around was quite boring. James always wants to pull pranks with someone who likes making fun of people. Remus wasn’t that someone. Remus and James spent most of their time trying to sneak into the forbidden forest. Hagrid had started keeping a sharp eye on James and Remus. If they got within ten yards of the trees shadow, Hagrid would be there to stop them.

James and Remus were now sitting by, what they had taken up as their favorite spot, the lake. They were just talking about, anything. They heard a loud crash in the direction of the front doors. They looked up to see them thrown open and a figure sprinting down the lawn, toward them.

“Hey guys! I finished my homework!” Sirius yelled. He was running too fast down hill and over balanced, rolling the rest of the way to the lake. He had carved a deep gouge in the snow ending in the frozen lake. Sirius got up, unfazed by his clothes being filled with snow.

“I finished my homework!” Sirius repeated, standing in the snow with nothing on but a thin shirt and jeans.

“Congratulations.” Remus said, standing up to greet Sirius.

“Where’s Peter? Isn’t he finished by now?” asked James.

“Nope, still has one more essay.” replied Sirius with a shrug and sat down cross legged. Remus stared at something past Sirius and walked toward it. Leaving without a word.

“What?” James said to Sirius. Sirius shook his head and stared after Remus.

“Hey Remus!” no response. “Remus!” Sirius yelled after him. Remus kept walking, which turned into a jog, then into a full blown run. Sirius and James looked at each other, eyebrows raised, but decided not to follow him.

James and Sirius stood up, walking over to Snape, James filled Sirius in on what Remus told him about Snape. They walked right past Snape, talking in loud voices.

“Alright, your hair can only be so greasy.” Sirius said.

“Yep, I guess some people have just never heard of a shower.” James replied, feinting seriousness. Sirius laughed as they continued walking toward the castle. They opened the front doors and stepped out of the snow and into the warmth of the Great Hall.

“Where did Remus go to?” James asked, actually serious.

“Maybe the library.” suggested Sirius.

“Wait, isn’t the full moon tomorrow or tonight?” asked James.

“Whoa.” breathed Sirius, a thought flashing across mind like lightning. “It’s tonight. No wonder he didn’t stop walking or telling us where he was going.”

“This is getting kind of ridiculous! We have known that he was a,” James lower his voice. “werewolf, for a long time now. He shouldn’t feel the need to sneak around.”

“Well it’s not like we can just straight out tell him that we know he’s a werewolf.” Sirius said quietly. James stopped walking down the corridor on the way to the dormitory.

“Actually, we could.” James said when Sirius had also stopped walking and turned to look back at him. Sirius cocked an eyebrow at him. James walked up to him. “We could just tell him!”

Sirius looked sad. “I wanted to surprise him by turning into an animagus and coming with him to a full moon.” said Sirius as they continued walking to their dormitory.

“Yeah, that would be cool!” James said excitedly. They walked up to the portrait of the Fat Lady, sitting in a high backed chair and wearing a pink dress as always.

“Password.” she asked in a monotone.

“Audacia.” Sirius said. The portrait swung forward to admit them into the common room. The two walked past the fireplace, saying hi to Peter who was still sitting under a pile of books. He didn’t respond to them, just waved a hand in the air. They continued walking up into their dormitory. They changed out of their wet clothes and into dry robes.

They both walked back out of the dormitory and toward the library. They checked every row of books, looking for Remus. They wanted to make sure he wasn’t really in the library. Once they confirmed Remus wasn’t there, James and Sirius grabbed a few transfigurations books and walked over to a secluded corner. They read all the books they got and managed to memorized all the spells they still needed to cast upon themselves.

“James, what are we doing?” Sirius asked, setting down his third book.

“What do you mean?” retorted James. Also setting down the book he was reading.

“I mean becoming an animagi. This will take years!” Sirius said, standing up and pacing the room as emphases.

“We knew this a long time ago, when we decided to become animagi’s.” said James, untouched by Sirius’ worry. James picked up his book and continued reading. Sirius walked up to James and slammed his book back on the desk.

“James! If we mess up we could get killed!” Sirius said seriously. James looked at him.

“Sirius, it will be okay! We also knew the risks of doing this. It’s for Remus though!” James answered. “What is this all about?”

Sirius sat back down and looked at his feet. “If we get it wrong, Peter will also be in trouble, not just us.” James shook his head.

“He knows that Sirius. We have been over what you’re saying a million times! We all know the risks.” James stood up and resumed Sirius’ spot in pacing.

“Yeah, your right. Sorry, just panicked for a second.” said Sirius. James turned around mid stride to look back at Sirius. He sat back down.

“Panicked? You just panicked!” James said incredulous. “I thought that you were going to back out on me!” he added.

“Sorry, okay, that won’t happen again. Lets focus on these books.” said Sirius, picking up another book.

“Did I hear that right?” said Lily, poking her head into the isle they were sitting in. “You guys are focusing on reading?” James slammed his book shut and slid it behind his back, blushing at the same time. Sirius discreetly dropped his book to the floor behind his chair.

“Hey... hey Lily.” said James.

“Hey Lily.” said Sirius brightly.

“Hi Sirius.” Lily answered with the same eagerness. James slouched in his chair.

“Yep, you heard right! Just doing some light reading here.” Sirius said, patting a small book about spells next to him.

“What do you need a transfiguration spell book for? You are the smartest person in that class.” Lily said. James was impressed, Lily never liked admitting that someone was smarter than her.

“Just looking up some spells.” said Sirius vaguely, waving a hand over the book. He picked up the book and flicked through a few pages. Lily smiled at Sirius. Sirius’ grin was lopsided as he tried to act cool. Lily laughed and left.

James put a hand on his chair and sat up straight. Sirius was still grinning after Lily, James scowled at him. Sirius looked over at him, his grin sliding off his face to be replaced with a tentative smile.

“So, James, want to keep reading these books?” asked Sirius as if they were complete strangers. James frowned at Sirius, but picked up the book behind him. Sirius let way to a small smile as he too picked up the book he had dropped on the floor.

They spent hours in the library. Soon lamps were coming on as the sun set behind the horizon. Once the window they were sitting next to was black, did they leave to get dinner. Remus was sitting at the Gryffindor table with Peter when they arrived. Remus was slightly pale and kept glancing out of the doors of the Great Hall and through the front doors to see if the moon was rising. After hardly touching his dinner, Remus said a hurried good bye and left.

After dinner, James, Peter and Sirius went to the library and checked out the spell book they had found. They took it back to their common room. While James studied the spell book, Sirius had gone off to help Peter finish his homework so that they could all work on the spells together. James pulled out his wand and practiced the movement for the next spell. Moments later, Peter and Sirius came down from the dormitory. James turned around, his wand still raised.

“Whoa, James, I thought you weren’t mad at me?” said Sirius, putting both hands in the air as an act of surrender. James rolled his eyes in exasperation, and put down his wand on the table next to him.

“Are you done with your homework Peter?” asked James, looking back at them.

“Yep, Sirius helped me.” replied Peter, he glanced at the spell book and James’ wand on the table. “What are you doing?” James walked back to his chair and sat down, picking up the book as he did.

“Looking up the next spell. Now we can all practice it.” James said, he then went on to explain the spell and the movements that accompanied it.

A few days later, with every moment of them practicing the new spell, Remus returned. He looked as bad as he always did after a full moon, but in a relatively good mood. Remus showed up in the common room unexpectedly the afternoon he got back. James had taken out his wand and was, once again, demonstrating how to work the spell when Remus came in. Sirius, who had been facing the portrait hole, got the most notice to hide the book. James had turned around when Sirius hid the book and, upon seeing Remus, jammed his wand into his robes.

“Hey Remus, your back soon.” remarked Peter, covering for Sirius and James. Remus looked suspiciously at James and Sirius before turning his attention to Peter.

“Yeah, my mom told me to go back to school, that she will be fine.” Remus said as casually as if he were commenting on the weather.

“That’s great!” said Peter. “About your mom getting better.” he added.

“Great to have you back mate.” said James, clapping Remus on the shoulder.

“Thanks.” Remus said, still suspicious. “What were you guys doing?”

“Oh, you know, studying.” Sirius said, shrugging. Remus cocked an eyebrow.

“Studying? What?” he asked, walking up to the chair where he saw Sirius hiding the book. Remus picked up the book, but Sirius grabbed it out of his hands and shoved it into his bag before he could read the title.

“What is up with you? You all are acting so strange recently.” Remus said.

James opened his mouth with a retort about Remus disappearing all the time, but decided against it. “Your right, Remus.” Peter and Sirius whipped around to look at James to see what he was going to say. “We just, didn’t want to tell you, in case you got your hopes up, but, we might have found something useful for the map. But it is not for sure, and we wanted to surprise you with it because of your mom and all.” James stopped rambling and scratched the back of his head.

“Really?” Remus said, completely believing their story. “What?”

“Well...” Sirius began. “We found a statue, and I heard that it was supposed to lead somewhere, but I guess we have to have a, a spell, to open it.” Sirius shrugged. Remus sat down and groaned.

“Are you okay?” asked Peter.

“Oh yeah, I’m fine.” Remus said with ease.

Sirius and James shook their heads and bid everyone good night. Peter and Remus joined them almost instantly, not giving Sirius and James a chance to talk. James fell asleep as soon as he could, hoping the next day would come sooner.

In the middle of the night, James woke to a horrific scream. He sat up fast in bed. He thrashed all of his covers off of himself and stood up to see what was happening clearly. Remus was thrashing about in his bed. Everyone else in the dormitory was up and the lights were on but Remus was still asleep.

“Go get someone!” James said to Thomas who immediately took off. James walked up next to Remus, him on one side, Sirius on the other. They nodded at each other and threw themselves at Remus, pinning him down.

“Remus!” Sirius shouted next to Remus’ ear. “Remus! Wake up!” Remus thrashed around a little then gave up, slumping into the bed. Sirius and James tentatively let Remus go.

“Remus?” called Sirius, leaning on the bed. Remus cried out in pain and sat up, pushing Sirius off his leg at the same time. Remus whipped back the sheets and rolled up his right pant leg to his knee. James’ eyes widened as he saw Remus’ mangled leg.


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Chapter 9: Summer Plan

Thomas ran back into the room with Professor McGonagall in tow. She came around toward Remus where she moved a shocked Sirius out of her way. She pulled out her wand and flicked it over Remus’ leg, instantly making bandages wrap tightly around his lower leg. Remus gasped in pain. Sirius and James helped Remus out of his bed, holding his arms tightly. Remus shrugged both of them off and walked to the door.

“Remus, where are you going?” asked Sirius tentatively.

“I’m going to the hospital wing.” said Remus, not turning around. He opened the door and walked out, without a trace of a limp, as if he had been practicing. Sirius and James pursued Remus out of the dormitory in case he did need them. Peter had followed them, not wanting to be alone in a room with Professor McGonagall.

“Remus, what happened to your leg?” asked Sirius, jogging up next to him as Remus walked down the corridor.

“Oh,” Remus scratched his head, allowing a little limp to come into his walk. He suddenly snapped his fingers as if he found the answer. “It must have been when I fell down those stairs.” He nodded as if that was the real story. Remus fell forward suddenly, Sirius and James, ready for that, caught his arms before he hit the floor.

“Remus?” James asked. Remus didn’t answer, he must have twisted his already broken leg and passed out. Sirius and James carried Remus the rest of the way to the hospital wing.

“Peter, go back to the dormitory and tell McGonagall that he is fine, if she’s still there.” added James. Peter nodded and ran back to the dormitory.

“Oh dear!” Madam Pomfrey said, as they walked through the door, running up to the three and having them set Remus on the nearest bed. She hurried up to the right side of the bed and rolled up his pant leg. Once all the bandages were off, she began a series of complicated series of wand movements.

“You boys should get back to bed, he will be fine tomorrow.” Madam Pomfrey said, shooing them out of the hospital wing. On their way back to the dormitory the boys could not stand the silence. They started talking instantly.

“Too bad.” James said. “I can’t believe he broke his leg!”

“How did she know which leg he’d broken?” asked Sirius suddenly after a little silence. James looked thoughtful.

“Lucky guess. It is pretty messed up.” James said, a look of disgust flashed across his face at the memory.

“No way, you can’t just guess if someone is hurt or not, and exactly where it hurts.” said Sirius, walking faster toward the dormitory. James barely kept up.

After a moments thought, James said, “She must have seen the way we didn’t touch his leg and were real careful not to hurt it.” James shrugged.

“It still doesn’t make much sense.” Sirius said as they woke up the Fat Lady and went up to their beds. McGonagall had left and Thomas and Peter were in their beds, talking. They stopped instantly when Sirius and James entered the room.

“How is he?” asked Thomas and Peter simultaneously, walking toward them.

“He’s fine. He passed out on the way there.” answered Sirius, flinging himself on his bed.

James got back into his own, everyone else following suit. Thomas switched off the lights and everyone fell asleep. Except James. He laid awake for an hour, thinking about how bad it must be to be a werewolf. After he mentally settled down his mind, he managed to get a few more hours of sleep before his watch alarm went off.

After they got dressed, Sirius, James, and Peter all headed down to get something to eat then rushed up to see Remus.

“Hey Remus!” shouted Sirius once they entered the hospital wing. Remus’ head snapped around in his bed to look at them.

“Hey guys!” Remus said, as cheerful as ever. “What are you doing here?”

“What do you think?” asked James, coming in to pull up a chair next to Remus’ bed. “We came to see you!”

“So, when do you get out of here?” asked Sirius, also pulling up a chair, along with Peter.

“Later today, I think, or tomorrow.” Remus answered, sitting up straighter. “Thanks, by the way.” he added softly.

“Don’t mention it! You’re our friend, what do you think we were going to do?” replied Sirius.

Before Remus could think of an answer, Madam Pomfrey came in. “Good, you’re up. And I see you have some visitors.” She looked at Sirius, James and Peter. They hastily stood up.

“Umm, we’ll see you later Remus.” said James as they walked out of the room. Remus smiled and waved goodbye. The trio walked to their class, and the beginning of a long school day.

After a detention earned by Sirius and a mountain of homework later, the three went to see Remus again. They all dropped their bags off at the common room and headed straight for the hospital wing. Once they got there, they saw that Remus was walking around, stretching his newly mended leg.

“Hey Remus!” Peter said. Remus looked up and walked toward them, slowly.

“Hey, don’t you guys have homework to do?” he asked.

“Yep,” James said. “And so do you.” Sirius came forward and presented Remus with a pile of books. Remus took the books and staggered back to his bed.

“Wow, how did we get so much homework?” he asked, shocking James, Sirius and Peter.

“Remus, it’s the end of the year. Our teachers are giving us more homework for our exams.” answered Sirius.

“Right.” Remus said, nodding his head.

“So,” James said after a pause. “Are you getting out of here tonight?”

“Madam Pomfrey wants me to stay until tomorrow, because I can’t walk that good.” Remus replied, shrugging.

“That’s too bad.” said Peter, sitting down on the bed.

“Well, we should go and finish our homework, we will just have more tomorrow.” said Sirius, earning an astonished look from everyone.

“Umm, yeah.” said James, turning to Remus he added, “We’ll see you later.”

“Bye!” Remus said as the three of them walked out of the room.



A month had passed since Remus broke his leg. The teachers had relentlessly poured homework over them throughout the weeks leading up to exams. The full moon was about to rise again. James and Sirius were sitting in their dorm, on a window sill, watching the moon rise over the horizon and listened. Remus’s growls and howls echoed through the night, reaching the castle.

“Poor Remus.” Sirius said, leaning back against the wall.

“Must be hard on him.” replied James.

“Soon we will be able to see him transform.” Sirius said, excitement creeping into his voice.

“Sirius! It’s not cool that Remus got bit by a werewolf!” James growled.

“Sorry, sorry!” Sirius said. “I just don’t like sitting here knowing that our friend needs us.”

“I don’t either, but at least we are getting somewhere on all the spells.” James shrugged.

“We still have two years to complete all the spells, even at the rate we are going.” Sirius pointed out.

“We can work on it during the summer, you and Peter can come over and we can finish some of the spells.” suggested James.

“Sounds good.” After a pause, “Umm, would it be okay if you just take me to your house from the station?” Sirius finished, a little shy.

“No problem.” answered James, laughing. “Maybe Peter could come over later. I’ll go ask him.” James stood up and left the dorm, walking into the common room. He spotted Peter and dragged him up to the dormitory.

“What are you doing this summer?” asked James, once Peter had asked what they wanted.

“Not much. I think my parents were going to go to Switzerland. Why, what did you guys want to do?” asked Peter.

“We were planning on getting more spells put on us. If you weren’t busy, maybe you could stay at my house for a bit.” James suggested.

“I’m not sure if my parents were going to take me with them when they left. I’ll send them a letter to ask. I’ll get back to you later.” said Peter as he stood up to get some paper.

“Okay.” James answered. Peter went to his trunk and wrote a hurried letter to his parents then ran out of the dormitory, saying something about going to the owlery. James and Sirius continued to talk until Peter came back, panting and gasping for air.

“I just ran - from the north tower - back here.” he panted.

“That’s good. But you didn’t have to run.” Sirius remarked, laughing.

“Yes - I did.” Peter paused while he regained his breathing. “It’s after hours, any prefect or teacher out could catch me.” smiling, he continued. “No one saw me.”

“That’s great!” James said, laughing too.


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Chapter 10: Summer At Last

Before anyone knew it, June was upon them. The mountain of homework every student was surround with was horrendous. The fifth and seventh year students had it the worst, with the fifth years OWLs and the seventh years NEWTs. Every student still had a lot of homework. Remus was in a bad shape. He was so tired after the full moon, and he was pulling all nighters to study. Remus was very haggard looking. And the boys said so.

“Remus, go to sleep.” James said, taking away all Remus’ books and guiding him to bed.

“No, I can’t.” Remus said, exhaustion evident in his voice. He gave it away by giving off a huge, jaw breaking yawn. James lightly pushed Remus onto his bed. He was asleep halfway though the yawn.

“Good night.” muttered James, leaving the dormitory. He walked back into the common room and sat down next to a pile of books up to his waist.

“He’s asleep?” asked Sirius, not looking up from his book.

“Yep, out like a light.” answered James, also picking up a book. They worked until midnight. James even did some of Remus’ work, just to make it easier on him.

The next day, James was awaken by Remus yelling in his ear. He sat up and rubbed his eyes. Remus was talking to him, using his indoor voice now. James shook his head to wake himself up more, and focused on what Remus was saying.

“...the weirdest thing, I’m telling you. I remember going to bed really early, so I didn’t manage to do any homework. Yet, this morning I look, and most of my homework is done. I think I noticed the hand writing, and that is why I am talking to you now.” Remus was saying. James sat up straighter and looked at Remus, not comprehending.

“What are you talking about Remus?” asked James, yawning.

“I woke up, and my homework was done!” said Remus, shoving papers into James’ face. James looked at the papers, waiting for his eyes to adjust. Staring at the papers, he recognized his own handwriting.

“Oh, right, that’s weird.” said James, standing up and stretching.

“Yeah, looks a bit like your hand writing.” Remus accused. James shrugged, putting on new clothes.

“Well, that’s crazy.” James replied. He walked toward the door of the dormitory, but Remus beat him there.

“Where are you going?” he asked.

“To the common room.” replied James.

“Who did my homework James?” asked Remus.

“Oh come on! It’s done, why are you complaining?” retorted James. As Remus stood there, at a loss for words, James brushed passed him and out of the door.

“James! Don’t do other people’s homework!” Remus called after him. People stared at James at he walked into the common room.

“What?” James asked them. They all turned their attention back to their books.

“What’s up?” asked Sirius.

“I -” James stopped as a loud crash was heard up the stairs. Remus followed shortly after.

“What happened?” asked James, panic in his voice.

“Oh, nothing.” replied Remus calmly. Sirius, Peter and James looked at him strangely. “Who did my homework?” he asked.

“Why can’t you drop that?” asked James.

“Because, I have to know.” he replied.

“Fine! I did your homework!” said James, turning back to his own pile of books. Everyone looked at him again, astonished. “What?” James asked them again, exasperation creeping into his voice. They turned back to their work.

“Why?” Remus asked. James gave a loud sigh that was almost a growl.

“No reason.” replied James, focusing on his work and blocking out all sound.

Hours later, Remus finished his work, along with James and Sirius. Peter still had two essays to do, even with all the help that Sirius and James were giving him. The three stood up and put their books in their room. When they came back down, Peter was spread out all over the hearth.

“We’ll see you later Peter.” said James, as the three of them walked out of the portrait hole.

They walked down to the Great Hall and had some lunch. Remus was constantly asking if they were going to go back to the common room. He was begging to get back and study. James and Sirius literally had to hold him down so he didn’t go back to studying.

“Come on, we are going to have some fun!” Sirius said. James and Sirius exchanged glances. They both shuffled Remus out of the castle and next to the lake. Sirius ran off, leaving James to hold Remus down by himself.

“It doesn’t matter, I have to study!” Remus said.

“Remus, you have studied enough, just take a break.” said James. Remus reluctantly complied.

Sirius returned a few minutes later. He was making three brooms hover in front of him, and had his hand balled into a fist in his pocket. He ran over to them and gave them each a broom. Sirius and James swung a leg over the broom and hovered a few feet off the ground. They stayed like that until Remus got on his broom and got up to the same level as them. They all took off and headed to a more remote part of the grounds. They landed next to a great tree.

“I don’t think we should be here.” Remus said, not landing, and already turning his broom half way around.

“Come on, have just a little fun.” James said.

“It’s not that, I really think we should leave.” Remus said, taking off. James and Sirius both hopped on their brooms and raced after him. Not too soon either, for the tree they had landed under came to life. A huge branch hit the ground right where Sirius had been sitting moments before.

“Whoa, why do we keep running into this demented tree.” Sirius said, as all three of them hovered a good ten feet above the tree, watching it thrash around.

“Maybe we shouldn’t come back.” said James, jokingly. They headed off again to another remote, but treeless area. Once they landed, Sirius finally took his hand out of his pocket, to reveal the golden snitch!

“You stole the snitch!” Remus shouted. Sirius clapped a hand around his mouth, even though there was no one else around.

“I didn’t steal it! I borrowed it.” Sirius reiterated.

“Because that is so much better.” Remus said, softer, once Sirius released his hand from his mouth. James took the snitch off Sirius’ hand. James held his hand flat, with the snitch on his palm. It gently unfolded it’s delicate gold wings from it’s body. It leaped off James’ hand and into the air.

“Great! You lost it!” Sirius said.

“No I didn’t.” said James, his eyes trained on the snitch. Once he thought that it was about to get out of reach, he jumped in the air and caught it.

“How can you see it?” asked Remus.

“I just... can?” replied James, raising an eyebrow.

“You should try out for the quidditch team next year.” suggested Sirius.

“That would be cool!” James said, considering it.

A few days passed, Sirius did return the ‘borrowed’ snitch and brooms from where he got them. Remus studied like crazy for the finals, like just about every other student in the school. James and Sirius didn’t study all that hard for Transfiguration, and when they took their finals, they came out beaming, saying it was the easiest test ever. The whole week of finals passed in a blur. It was full of cramming, and minor sicknesses from the older students. Before anyone knew it, the school year was over, and it was the eve of their departure.

“You coming down to the feast soon?” Sirius asked James, Remus and Peter, who were all still packing.

“Yeah, yeah, we’ll be down in a second.” James replied, his voice muffled under the bed.

“Fine, I’ll save you all a seat.” said Sirius as he left. Not two minutes later, Remus, Peter and James caught up with Sirius on his way to the Great Hall. They walked in together and sat down at their house table.

“Hey! Lily!” James shouted down the table. Lily looked up and searched for the person who called her name. Finding the source, she turned back to Kate and Kayla. James smirked.

“Students, students settle down please.” Everyone instantly fell silent as Dumbledore spoke. “I know you are all excited about the ending of the school year. You are all probably even more excited to see who won the house cup.” A loud cheer rose up from the crowd. “Well, you will all know the winner after this magnificent feast.” said Dumbledore, spreading his arms, at the same time, food instantly filled all the plates in front of them.

After being nearly stuffed to the brink, the dinner disappeared to be replaced almost instantaneously with dessert. There were gourmet chocolate cakes seven layers high. Ice cream was stacked impossibly high. Once the dessert was gone, and all the dishes were left spotless, Dumbledore stood up. Immediately the hall became silent.

“Well, before I announce the winners of the house cup, I just want to say that this has been a fun year, and you all have worked very hard during this past week of finals.” said Dumbledore. “Now, on to the house cup. In fourth place, with 345 points, Hufflepuff.” A polite cheer was heard. “In third place, with 367 points, Ravenclaw.” A louder cheer rose from the table next to James. “In second place, with 395 points, Gryffindor. And in first place, Slytherin, with 415 points.” An earsplitting roar was heard from the table all the way across the hall. “I hope that you all have a safe, fun summer.”

“You can’t have fun if your safe.” muttered Sirius.

“We’ll see you all next year.” Dumbledore finished. All the students stood up to go back to their dormitory.

The next day was a little hectic. Sirius, of course, hadn’t packed. Remus, James, Peter and Thomas hadn’t finished packing, so they were running around trying to find out where all their belongings had gotten to. Sirius had the worst trouble. He was looking under everyone’s bed, looking for loose socks and shirts. In no time, James, Peter, Thomas and Remus were all done packing and had lined their trunks up against the door. This made it easier for Sirius to find the rest of his missing possessions.

“Let’s go! We’re going to miss the train!” Remus was saying. Sirius picked up a shoe across the room and threw it into his trunk. He walked over and slammed and locked the lid shut.

“I’m ready, let’s go.” Sirius said, taking his trunk down the stairs. The other four boys followed him.

They all dragged their trunks into the common room. The prefects told them that someone would come by and take their trunks to the train. The five boys walked into the Great Hall and had some breakfast before the train was due to depart. At ten minutes to eleven, the boys headed down to the train. The whole school was already there, along with all the luggage. The boys got on the train and started looking for an empty compartment. Thomas left them shortly after. James spotted the compartment that Lily was sitting in and poked his head in.

“Hey ladies.” James said, cockiness creeping into his voice.

“What, Potter?” Lily said, slightly emphasizing his last name. James lost his train of thought when he heard his friendship officially disintegrate. All the other girls in the compartment stopped talking, shocked into silence.

“Umm, just - just wanted to say hi.” faltered James. He left, leaving everyone staring after him.

“Hey Lily.” said Sirius.

“Hey Sirius!” Lily replied brightly. Sirius started to follow James.

“Later Lily.” said Remus as he and Peter followed Sirius and James. They found an empty compartment near the end of the train. They didn’t talk very much, which all changed when the lunch trolley came. They shared all the food that they got and started to play exploding snap.

“James, I forgot, I can come over to your house, my parents aren’t taking me to Switzerland.” Peter said when Remus went to the bathroom.

“That’s great Peter!” James replied.

A few hours later the train started to slow down as it entered Kings Cross Station. They all stood up and got out of the compartment. After they grabbed their luggage, they all said goodbye to each other as they saw their parents. James and Sirius walked up to James’ parents.

“Hello Sirius.” Mrs. Potter said.

“Thanks for letting me stay at your house.” Sirius said.

“It’s no trouble.” Mr. Potter replied. Sirius and James grabbed their luggage and followed Mr. and Mrs. Potter to their car.


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Chapter 1: Animagi Spells

Spending the summer at the Potters’ house was the best time of Sirius’ life. James, Sirius and Peter spent most of the summer together. James and Sirius had gone to Diagon Alley for an hour, while James’ parents were out of the house. Once there, they went to a book shop and picked up a huge book on animagi’s. Once Peter got to the Potter’s house, the three of them began the next series of spells, which were getting increasingly complex.

“James, are you sure we can be doing all these spells?” asked Peter one day.

“Of course. I heard my parents talking about how the magical community can track spells cast from a persons home. If we perform spells, they will just think it’s my parents.” James explained. Sirius shrugged.

“So what’s the next spell?” asked Sirius.

“Let’s see.” Peter fingered through the book, looking for the answer.

With a month left of vacation, the three boys stopped performing spells, and asked Remus to come over and hang out for the rest of the summer. They got a reply from Remus the next day saying that he would be there that night. The three boys stayed in the house all day, trying to find the best hiding place for all the animagi books and anything else that would tip Remus off as to what they were doing.

At seven, James, Sirius and Peter were sitting in the living room. Half way through their conversation, the fireplace lit up with green flames and a second later Remus was standing on the hearth, brushing the ashes off his clothes.

“Hey guys!” Remus said cheerfully.

“Hi Remus.” said James.

“Thanks for letting me stay.” said Remus, coming into the room and setting down his bag.

“No problem.” James said.

“Hello boys!” called Mr. Potter, coming home from work.

“Hi dad.” said James, while the other three boys answered “Hi Mr. Potter.”

James leaped lightly off the couch and came up to his dad as he entered the room.

“When’s mom coming home?” he asked.

“Should be pretty soon.” replied Mr Potter, sitting down in a comfortable armchair next to the couch. “It’s good to see you again Remus.”

“Thanks for letting me stay Mr. Potter.” replied Remus.

“We should go, come on. Remus, I can show you where you will be staying.” said James, winking slyly at the others. They all got up and ran up the stairs.

“You’ll be in here.” James pointed through a doorway to a bedroom next to Sirius’.

“Thanks.” said Remus, walking into the room and setting his bag next to the bed. The three boys followed him in and closed the door quietly. James, Sirius and Peter had been talking about this for weeks, since school let out really. Now that it came to it, the silence spread about them all, thickening and deepening until the three were fidgeting nervously.

“Did you guys want to talk about something?” asked Remus, feeling the nervousness.

“Um, well.” said James, shifting in his chair near the door.

“What James was going to say,” said Sirius slowly, calming not just himself but James and Peter too. “Is that, we know something, and we wanted to tell you what that is.”

“Okay.” said Remus his eyebrows coming together without understanding. “What is it?” Remus finished, calming his heart rate, telling himself that they don’t know anything. James sighed and told Remus in a rush.

“We know you’re a werewolf.” he said, closing his eyes and bowing his head. You could visibly hear the wind rush out of Remus.

“Oh.” Remus stood up. He bent down to get his bag and started to head for the door.

“Where are you going?” asked James, jumping out of his seat to block Remus’ path.

“I’m going home.” he said sadly.

“Why would you do that?” asked Peter, getting up and standing next to James.

“You don’t want a monster to be in your house.” said Remus, trying to shove against the blockade James and Peter had made.

“Who’s the monster here?” said Sirius, sauntering over to stand next to Remus. “I just see four guys hanging out.” Remus still looked sad, and was trying weakly to shove his way out of the room.

“Remus,” James said, placing his hands on both of Remus’ shoulders. “We don’t care that you’re a werewolf.” Remus snorted in disbelief. “Honestly! You could be part hag, or goblin or something and we would still be your friend.” finished James.

Remus looked up to stare him in the eyes. Seeing the seriousness there, Remus backed away toward the bed and set his bag back on the floor. Once James, Peter and Sirius saw that he wouldn’t run away, they went back to their chairs. An awkward silence, which slowly increased, followed the confrontation.

Remus sighed. “Do you mean that?”

“Mean what?” asked James.

“That you don’t care about me being a werewolf.” Remus said slowly, as if it physically hurt him to say it.

“Of course we don’t care!” James, Sirius and Peter said at once.

“And it’s okay that I stay here?” said Remus, again very slowly.

“It’s fine, honestly!” said James. “No one cares. We knew you before we even came close to finding out you were a werewolf.”

“When exactly did you know I was a werewolf?” asked Remus.

“A year ago.” said Sirius. Remus sighed again.

“So much for lying to you all the time.” he said quietly. James laughed.

“It was interesting to see how many stories you could come up with before you repeated yourself.” said James smirking.

“Ah,” Remus groaned, putting his head in his hands and gently pulling his hair. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you guys earlier. Dumbledore made me swear not to tell anyone.”

“It’s fine, we understand.” Sirius said, placing a comforting hand on Remus’ shoulder.


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Chapter 2: Early Fights

Remus became more weary of what he did after the encounter. He didn’t want his friends to get any ideas that he really was a monster. Of course, that meant that once the full moon came during his stay at the Potter’s house, he had to sneak out of the house and get away as fast as he could to a stand of trees a few blocks from their house. James, Sirius and Peter helped him sneak out, without his knowing. One of them made sure to be in both their own bed and Remus’ when Mr. and Mrs. Potter came to check on them. Remus had come, staggering like a drunkard, down the street toward their house at five in the morning. James had half carried, half dragged the sleeping Remus into the house and shut the door before anyone saw them.

Summer was slowly, but surely, coming to an end. The boys received their Hogwarts letters two weeks prior to September 1st. Mrs. Potter accompanied them on the trip to Diagon Alley to buy all of their things. When they got to the book store, Sirius had to distract Mrs. Potter while James tried to hush the woman behind the counter about seeing them earlier this summer.

“That was close.” James muttered as they left the shop.

“A little too close.” whispered Sirius.

“But fun.” smirked James.

“Too fun.” laughed Sirius. Remus was looking at them questioningly about why the lady recognized them, but they didn’t bother to explain. Once they got all their books and went home, the four boys promptly shoved them under their beds never to be looked at for the rest of the summer.

Remus woke up the next day with sun in his eyes, nearly blinding him. He sat up and, hearing a slight scuffle outside his door, threw on the nearest pair of clothing and went to have a look. James was kneeling on Sirius’ back while holding him in a choke hold.

“Now, what do you say?” grunted James from the effort of keeping Sirius in his grip.

“Can’t…” Sirius took a haggard breath. “Breathe.” James slackened his hold so slightly Remus thought he didn’t do anything. Sirius didn’t. Sirius immediately took advantage of the extra room and rolled onto his back. He managed to get his feet between himself and James and push James off him. This all happened in about two seconds, too fast for James to tighten his grip again before he was slammed into the wall by the force of Sirius’ push.

“I don’t think I have to say anything.” growled Sirius, jumping at James again. Remus had seen that coming and jumped in between Sirius and James. Sirius jumped right into Remus’ outstretched hand. Remus, using all the extra strength he had, pushed Sirius into the wall.

“What’s gotten into you two?” asked Remus, a little breathless from the force he used to block Sirius’ jump and stopping James from lunging at Sirius.

“He started kissing Lily!” shouted James, pointing at Sirius, who was on the floor after hitting the wall.

“I didn’t think you would over react like that!” Sirius shouted, standing up. “I didn’t know you liked her!”

“Of course I do!” James yelled. Remus dropped his arms and looked at James.

“You do?” he asked.

“Yes.” James said softly.

“I’m sorry James, I had no idea.” said Sirius. James’ hand flew instantly to his hair and ruffled it so it resembled a town after a tornado hit it.

“Its fine.” said James, dropping his hand and smiling widely. “It was pretty funny watching her throw you off like that.” he laughed.

“Kind of hurt hitting the ground that hard.” winced Sirius, his hand reaching to rub his lower back. Remus and James both laughed.

“Whatsgoinon?” slurred Peter, just waking up after hearing the fight, and rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
“Nothing Peter.” said Sirius, tensing his legs. Peter was half turned to go back into his room when Sirius sprang. He hit Peter and tackled him to the floor. Sirius then leaped lightly to his feet and went back to where he had stood before, as if nothing happened. Peter staggered upright, all traces of sleep gone from him. He stared at Sirius with wide eyes.

“What was that for?” he said.

“You looked a little tired.” replied Sirius innocently. Peter scowled and walked into his room, closing the door firmly behind him. He reappeared a minute later fully dressed.

“Breakfast is ready.” called Mr. Potter from downstairs, clearly oblivious to the fact that James and Sirius had tried to kill each other.


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Chapter 3: Back To School

The last remaining weeks of summer flew by. After Sirius had kissed Lily, they didn’t see her around. Sirius had taken to heart what Lily said about liking him, but he found out soon enough that wasn’t the case. A week after their book list came, another envelope was enclosed inside.

“Alright! Hogsmeade!” exclaimed Sirius when he looked at this paper. Mrs. and Mr. Potter came up behind the four boys.

“Here James, I’ll sign your permission slip.” Mr. Potter said, reaching out to take the paper from James. James handed it to his father who took a pen out of his pocket and signed the bottom.

“Um, Mr. Potter?” asked Sirius cautiously.

“Yes Sirius.”

“I was wondering if maybe you would sign my permission slip also. My parents would never allow me to go, or even look twice at me if I walked through the door. I’m sorry, you don’t have to…” Sirius trailed off as Mr. Potter smiled kindly at him and took his permission slip from him to sign it.

“You’re over here often enough during the summer, your practically part of the family.” he said, handing Sirius back the form.

“Thanks Mr. Potter.” said Sirius.

“I’ll mail this to my folks.” said Remus. The four boys walked up the stairs to James’ room. He had an owl that he let Remus borrow.

“Peter, I can ask my parents to borrow their owl if you want to send your letter to your parents.” said James, already walking to the door.

“Okay, thanks.” Peter said. James walked back out of the room and down the stairs, stopping on the second to last step as he heard his parents whispering feverishly in the kitchen. He pressed himself against the wall and strained to hear what was being said.

“…Scarlet, what if he were dangerous?” asked James’ father, Garret Potter.

“He wasn’t, there is nothing we can do about it. He is James’ friend after all.” Scarlet replied.

“Poor James, he could be terrified if he found out that his best friend is a werewolf.” Garret said. James’ eyes got wide as he heard this. How did his parents find out? He wondered.

“Remus is such a nice boy though.” said Scarlet. James smiled, his mother would stick up for his friend. “He can’t be that dangerous.”

“We’ll just have to see then, won’t we?” declared Garret. James thought that this was an appropriate time to walk in. He pushed himself off the stair way and walked into the kitchen.

“Hello James.” said Scarlet cheerfully.

“What can we help you with?” Garret asked, knowing that his son was here for something and not just to talk.

“I was wondering if I could borrow your owl.” asked James.

“Sure, what for?” replied Garret.

“Peter wants to send his permission form home so his parents can sign it.” James said.

“Go ahead son.” Garret said.

“Thanks dad.” replied James, as he ran out of the room and up the stairs two at a time. He walked past his bedroom to the very end of the hall where he opened a door. He climbed up the four steps into a small circular room where he saw two owls perched against the wall. Other owls had flown in during the day, James could tell by the small stack of unopened letters in a box. James grabbed one owl and walked back to his room.

He decided not to tell the others, especially Remus, what he had over heard his parents talking about. After James gave the owl to Peter, who had already scratched out a separate note for his parents, they all planned what to do for the next day. Having only a week left of school made the boys want to get as much adventure and fun they could get in before the books came out.

“Come on.” James said. He twisted the bristled end off a broom he had found in a closet (an object that the Potter’s only kept in their house to make it seem like they were muggles). Remus staggered in, carrying a heavy rope in his arms.

“James, why are we doing this?” he asked, setting the rope down with a solid thump.

“Because we can.” Sirius replied coming into the room, twirling the roll of duct tape he was sent to get around his finger.

“Great answer Sirius.” mumbled Remus, helping James tie the rope and tape it to James’ broom and the handle off the muggle broom.

“All set.” James declared, getting on his broom, Peter climbed on in front of James as they had planned. Sirius and Remus sat on either end of the handle, dangling three feet below the broom. They hovered in the room for a while, getting used to their arrangement. Once they were set, they flew out of the window.

Behind the Potters’ house was a field. In the field, tall weeds grew. The boys could easily fly low to the ground so as not to be seen for one, and if they fell off, it wouldn’t be a far drop. James flew them all to the park that Lily and he had gone to all the time before they went to Hogwarts. As they neared the park, James could distinctly see red hair shimmering in the sun. A girl was sitting on one of the swings on the far side of the park, her back to them.

James landed at the edge of the field and hid the broom in the weeds. He motioned for the other three to follow him quietly. Only when they were right behind Lily did James exclaim loudly.

“Hey Lily.” Lily jumped in her swing. She stood, turned and drew her wand at the same time.

“Careful Evans, if I were a muggle I might have laughed.” said James mockingly. Lily scowled as she lowered her wand but kept it in her hand incase she needed it.

“What do you want?” she snarled.

“Just wanted to drop in and say hi.” only his three friends got the irony in that statement. Remus was looking at Lily a little apologetically. She looked in Remus’ direction, the corner of her mouth lifted in a smile for a mere instant, too fast for anyone to really see.

“Well, you said hi, and gave me a heart attack. Is there anything else on your to-do list?” Lily replied.

“I think that will do it.” nodded James, mocking solemnest. Sirius laughed as the four boys backed away.

“Later Evans.” called James.



A week passed and finally September 1st arrived, and all the boys were rushing to gather their belongings. They finally made it to the train station with five minutes to spare. They found an empty compartment and stowed their trunks into the over head rack. Then they stepped off and said goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Potter.

“Thanks so much for having us.” Remus said, over and over again. James’ parents smiled and kept repeating that it wasn’t a problem.

“Bye, mom, bye dad.” James said.

“Stay out of trouble will you?” asked Mrs. Potter.

“I’ll do my best.” James replied, fighting a laugh while Sirius broke down and snickered behind him.

“Have a good term boys!” called both Mr. and Mrs. Potter as the boys stepped onto the train as it began to move.

“Bye!” they all called out, waving back at the quickly diminishing figures. The train rounded a corner, and they were gone.


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Chapter 4: First Week

Of course the start of term feast was magnificent, as ever. Professor Dumbledore gave the same speech about not going into the Forbidden Forest and to take note of the items banned from the corridors. As always, Sirius was grumbling the whole time about how the first years weren’t sorted fast enough for his appetite. James on the other hand was thinking back to the week before school, how he had called Lily ‘Evans’. Now that both of them were on a ‘last name’s only’ basis, James had lost sight of the friendship they once had.

James was thinking all these things over as he stared up at the ceiling in his bed, willing himself to fall asleep. James, Remus, Sirius and Peter had grabbed basically the same bed they had last year, leaving Thomas near the door. James tried to turn off his thoughts, if only long enough to fall asleep, but they wouldn’t leave him alone so easily. Finally he rolled over and brought his watch in front of his face, watching the seconds go by.

James woke with a start. His watch was still close to his face and the alarm had gone off, scaring him out of the dream he’d been having. He slowly got up and looked out of the window near his bed. He could see the sun was almost half way above the horizon. Lifting a hand to rub his eyes, he stumbled to his trunk and slowly changed into school robes. He noticed that no one else in the dormitory was up, so he took the liberty of waking them up himself.

Picking up his wand from the night stand he thought back to the spells that he knew. Smiling grimly, he let off several loud bangs that scattered some sleeping birds on the window sill outside. Everyone sat up, all traces of sleep gone as they tried to find the source of the noise.

“I’m glad you’re up.” said James, stowing his wand to his robes pocket.

“James! Do you know what time it is?” exclaimed Sirius as he sank back into his pillows. James glanced at his watch.

“Yeah, it’s about six.” replied James. Sirius groaned as a reply, but Remus, Peter and Thomas hauled themselves up and got dressed.

An hour later, the four boys were sitting in the Great Hall – Thomas left them as they entered – having breakfast and waiting for Professor McGonagall to hand out their schedules. Nearly five minutes later she came down the table, handing out blank pieces of paper, consulting with the student, and then tapped her wand to the paper, making a mapped schedule appear. She finally made it to the boys, who finished eating as she walked up.

“Yes, Mr. Potter, you have all your basic classes, and I see that you signed up for Divination as well as Care of Magical Creatures.” she tapped her wand and little boxes appeared on the paper with a class inside each. She then moved on to Sirius, Peter and Remus. Once she had moved on, the four boys complained about their classes.

“Double Potions before lunch!” exclaimed Sirius.

“Double History of Magic after lunch!” James said in an equally outraged voice.

Before they could say any more though, the bell rang, signaling for them to all get to their first class of the day, Transfiguration.



Finally the week was over. The three boys were sitting in the common room, working on the homework that they had somehow managed to get behind in. Remus was, as always, on top of the work load. James had read a question half a dozen times without knowing what it was asking. He looked up as Lily, Caitlyn, Kayla, Suzanne and Kate came walking in. Lily was laughing at what one of them had said. He watched them until they disappeared up to the girls’ dormitory.

The next day, James and Sirius were out on the quidditch pitch. James was on his own broom while Sirius borrowed the school broom. They were circling the quidditch pitch, trying to get in as much practice as they could before the quidditch try-outs were to be held. Remus and Peter were in the middle of the field. Remus had a pile of rocks at his feet. His wand was out and he was making the rocks fly pass James and Sirius, heaving them as hard as he could. James suddenly broke out of the circle and chased the rock that sailed passed him. An hour later they landed on the ground with Sirius complaining loudly.

“I can’t believe you could actually see all of those!” Sirius exclaimed as Remus and Peter joined them.

“That was very good James.” Remus said.

“You should try out for the seeker position.” said Peter.

“Maybe, but Sirius, you should go out for chaser.” James said.

“Yeah, I love jumping off my broom and grabbing the quaffle from the air…” he trailed off as they entered the Great Hall. After a hurried dinner, they headed back to the common room.


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Chapter 5: Quidditch Try-Outs

The month passed, in which time quidditch was about to start. James and Sirius had woken up Monday and had seen that quidditch try-outs would be held on Saturday. The week that followed was the longest week of James and Sirius’s life. James concluded that if you looked at the clock, and willed it to move faster, it would only move slower. After what seemed like an eternity, the week was over.

James and Sirius woke up earlier than usual on Saturday. They both headed down to breakfast. They had to wait a while until the food appeared, in which time they barely talked.

“Do you think many people will show up?” asked Sirius.

“I hope not.” replied James just as the food appeared. Remus and Peter joined them shortly after. With three hours to kill before try-outs, they headed back to the common room.

“…notice how Alice and Frank act around each other?” asked Lily when the guys walked into the common room.

“I know! They should just go out with each other already.” Kate replied.

“Yeah, it shouldn’t matter what people think about them.” Suzanne put in.

“That is a very good way to be.” said Sirius, smirking.

“Oh yeah, Mr. I-don’t-care-what-anyone-thinks.” said Suzanne. Sirius flashed a grin before disappearing up the boys’ staircase.

At ten o’clock, James and Sirius walked with their brooms down to the quidditch pitch. Nearly fifteen people were there. The Gryffindor quidditch captain, Frank Longbottom, a sixth year, flew down on his broom to stand in front of them all.

“Is this it?” he asked. Everyone looked at each other and nodded. “Good, I hate an audience.” He grinned as he went on. “Now we are going to have the Chasers start first. If you could just stand here.” He pointed toward the goal post. “Then we’ll have the Keeper try-outs, followed by the Seeker, then the Beaters.” Everyone except for the five people that were going to try-out for chasers stepped off the field.

Since Frank was a chaser, there were only two spots that needed to be filled. James watched from the sidelines as one by one people flew up in front of the goal post. For being a chaser, Frank was a good keeper. Sirius managed to get four out of a possible five goals. Only one person got all five goals. Frank flew down to announce who the chasers will be.

“Remilda Redwood and Sirius Black.” he said. The three other people left, grumbling slightly. Remilda was a fourth year, just one year above James and Sirius. Sirius and James hung back and watched the keeper try outs. Frank was an even better chaser than keeper, which was hard to imagine. He threw the quaffle hard at the keepers. Sometimes they curved at the last minute, just out of reach of the keepers.

In the end, out of a possible five, only one person got four, which made it an easy choice. Kate Burgess was the new keeper, Lily’s friend! They hadn’t even seen her standing there; much less knew she was so good at quidditch.

“Where did you learn to fly like that?” asked Sirius as Kate walked over to them.

“I have an older brother. He would make me be keeper while he tried to get shots off. He was a chaser before, but he graduated last year.” Kate said. The seeker try-outs were on.

James stepped up behind the only other person who wanted to be seeker. James watched as the guy in front of him took off and Frank let loose the snitch. Frank didn’t start the watch until a minute after the snitch was released. The first person managed to find the snitch in five minutes. Now it was James’ turn. He kicked off the ground as Frank let the snitch go again. A minute later James was flying around the pitch, trying in vain to find the snitch.

A hint of gold? He looked down and clearly saw the snitch near the ground. He dived. The snitch flashed out of the way but James followed it. The snitch was headed right for the stands. The snitch didn’t change direction, and James followed it. With nearly a yard before he hit the stands, his hand clamped around the struggling ball. He landed near Frank and handed him back the snitch.

“Congratulations, you caught the snitch in three minutes.” Frank smiled as James beamed, excited to be on the quidditch team. He joined Sirius and Kate and watched the beater try-outs. Two out of the five people made the cut. The first was Beret Liveheart and the other was Jared Silversten, they were both fifth years. The six new team members gathered around Frank as he finished wrestling the bludgers into the case.

“Congratulations on making the team.” he started off. “Now, we will have practice twice a week, Tuesday and Friday. I’ll let you all know if that changes.” They all nodded their heads. “Good work everyone.” With that, everyone dispersed, going their separate ways. For Sirius and James, it was going back to the common room to tell Remus and Peter the good news.


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Chapter 6: Animagi

October soon faded into November. Sirius and James were practicing their quidditch moves every week, and would come back to the common room exhausted and wet from the continual rain storms. But no matter how far behind Sirius, James and Peter got on their homework, they always put aside time to sneak to the library and finish their transformations into animagi’s.

It was one particular night that the three boys sneaked out of their dormitory after Remus had fallen asleep and walked into the library. It was still early so they didn’t worry about being caught out of bed. They walked to a secluded part of the library and began taking books off of shelves. They were at the most critical stage; they had to focus on changing into an animal while maintaining a spell.

James pulled his wand out and tried the spell. Sirius and Peter watched, in case something went wrong. James muttered the spell. Purple light infused with gold sprung out of his wand and enveloped his body. While keeping up the steady stream of light, he concentrated on changing his form. This part was especially difficult, since they didn’t know what animal they were going to change into, they just had to will themselves to change.

Sirius and Peter watched James. They had brief glances of James changing into an animal, but it flashed by so fast that they couldn’t make out what he actually turned into. The light was becoming brighter and denser, making it difficult to even make out James’ form. Another minute passed and the light started to fade away. James stood in front of them, panting slightly at the effort.

“Well done, I saw you change into about five different shapes.” said Sirius.

“Then I guess its Peter’s turn.” James grinned as Peter tentatively pulled out his wand. “Remember to concentrate on both at the same time. We’ll be right here if anything happens.”

“Thanks for the confidence James.” muttered Peter weakly as he said, in a loud voice. “Puniceus Aurum,” The same light enclosed Peter. He only changed shape twice, but at least it was something. Next up was Sirius. Since him and James were the best in their Transfiguration class (even better than Lily and Remus) they changed into more shapes. In the end, Sirius managed to change into five shapes, all of them too fast to be seen.

After their exhausting partial transformations, the three boys headed up to the common room. They only just made it before the curfew rule kicked in at nine. James, Sirius and Peter headed up to bed as quietly as possible and fell asleep.

The next day was exhausting for all four boys. It was the full moon that night. While it was bad for Remus, it gave James, Sirius and Peter a chance to go to the library once more without having to be sneaky. And they did just that. Remus slept in until twelve, as it was a Saturday, while the other three headed to the library. They had to check out the book this time and find an empty classroom where no one could see them.

They had to perform the spell three times total before they found out the form that they would change into. The next two times they practiced, one form stood out from the rest. They could hold that shape longer than any other. The last time they performed the spell, they only changed once into their animagi shape. James and Sirius being the best at Transfiguration managed to turn into quite large animals.

“James! You were a stag!” exclaimed Sirius as the purple and gold light faded away. “A huge stag!” James grinned.

“Seriously?” he couldn’t quite believe he actually managed to change forms.

“Yeah.” chimed in Peter excitedly.

“Well then, which of you wants to go next?” James asked. Sirius eagerly pulled out his wand and murmured the incantation.

Only once the light had completely faded away did James say, “Sirius, a dog! A huge bear like dog!” Sirius grinned at them. “But of course, it did have your hair.” said James, taking some of Sirius’ hair and pulling on it. Sirius punched him in the stomach, which made James let go of Sirius’ hair.

“Peter, you’re up.” said Sirius. Peter nervously stepped away from them as the light encased him. For a moment both James and Sirius started to panic as they lost sight of Peter. He was no where to be found!

“There!” pointed James. In the middle of the light, so small you could barely see it, sat a rat, slightly bigger than normal but still small enough to be over looked. Peter regained his human form as the light disappeared.

“A rat.” said James as Sirius stifled his laughter. Peter turned a little red as he stowed his wand away.

“We should be getting back to the common room, Remus might actually be awake now that it’s nearly one o’clock.” James put the book in his backpack and they all headed up to the common room.



After they managed to change into animals – even if it was with the help of a spell – the four boys were looking forward to their first Hogsmeade trip. It was scheduled for the upcoming weekend. Remus had read a little bit about Hogsmeade, enough to know what shops will be the best and worst to go to.

After much anticipation, the Hogsmeade trip was upon them. All third years and older students who weren’t too tired of seeing the village met outside of the Great Hall. Professor McGonagall took the permission slips from the third years and they were off to Hogsmeade.

It was raining steadily, which it had been doing for quite a while now. They passed through the gates and stared down the street and the shops that lined either side. People were walking from one shop to another and some people stopped in the street to talk to people.

“Where to Remus?” asked James in awe.

“How about Zonko’s. It’s supposed to be a joke shop.” Remus replied. They headed off down the street. They spent most of their time in the Three Broomsticks and looked at all the different people gathered there.

Before they knew it, it was time to head back up to the castle. It was cold as they struggled through the downpour of water. The entrance into the Great Hall resembled a large puddle, with teachers having to wipe it up with their wands. The boys headed to their dorm and spread their finding on their bed.


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Chapter 7: Raven and the Lion

Not only did November bring a new development in the boys’ shape shifting ability, but it also brought the first quidditch match of the season: Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw. Frank Longbottom had the team out nearly every night practicing for the match. It was starting to get colder now, and the rain was turning more into snow than water. The snow never stayed long enough to be enjoyed; it just made Hogwarts cold and damp.

The day before the match, the team practiced harder than ever. Sirius, Remilda and Frank were passing the quaffle back and forth so fast that it was just a blur. Kate was an excellent keeper. For how quick Sirius, Remilda and Frank’s movements were, she still managed to keep an eye on the quaffle and prevent it from going through one of the three goal posts. Beret and Jared were on the far side of the field, away from anyone else in case their bludgers went amiss. They were hitting the bludgers as hard as they could at each other.

James was far above the field, looking for the snitch. Frank had told him to try and perform more intricate tricks, or harder stunts to capture the snitch. James had been practicing standing on his broom and reaching for the snitch. Of course he was close to the ground when he did this incase something went wrong. James suddenly turned the nose of his broom downward as he spotted the snitch.

His sudden dive made the three chasers scatter as he flew by them. The snitch turned upward sharply. James lifted the handle of his broom, struggling against gravity. He shot upward and followed the snitch around the pitch. Finally he caught the snitch by rolling over on his broom. He headed back to the ground as he saw that practice had ended.

Saturday, and the first match of the season, was finally upon them all. Sirius and James were too nervous to sleep much longer, so they crept out of bed, so as not to wake anyone, and headed down to the Great Hall. When they walked in they saw Remilda, Beret and Jared already sitting down, looking nervous at the upcoming match. James and Sirius sat down next to them and they all sat there in silence.

“Are you guys ready for the big game?” asked Frank as he bounded down the hall towards his teammates. They were all so startled by the sudden breaking of the silence that it took them a minute to respond.

“A little.” Remilda admitted.

“A little?! You guys should be jumping with excitement!” Frank replied as soon as the food arrived.

“We’re a little nervous.” replied Sirius.

“Well don’t be! Quidditch is exciting. Of course your first game might be a little scary, except for you three, Remilda, Beret and Jared. You guys were on the quidditch team last year, and the year before.”

Remilda sighed. “I know.” Sirius had been digging in, stuffing food into his mouth at an alarming speed, so he missed the exchange.

The rest of the team, minus Frank, hardly touched their food. Remus and Peter came and sat down next to them, followed by Lily, Suzanne, Caitlyn and Kayla. A few minutes later, Frank stood up and beckoned the team to follow. Their six friends wished them luck as they passed.

Outside was a torrential downpour. Great puddles had already formed on the pitch. Visibility would be difficult but not impossible. They headed to the changing rooms and put on their robes. Frank paced back and forth in front of them, giving them a pep talk.

“Alright, visibility is bad, and the wind is strong enough to blow us off course. But we have been practicing in this weather for a while now; I think we can handle it.” he paused as they all heard the whole school come out and walk toward the stands. “Well, I guess it’s almost time. Everyone ready?” They all nodded. “Are we going to win?!”

“Yeah.” they replied.

“Then let’s go!” Frank led the way out of the room and onto the middle of the field. Either they were hearing thunderous applause, or that was actual thunder that rolled across the sky toward them.

“Now, I expect a clean game,” Madam Hooch’s eyes met every face. “From all of you.” The two captains shook hands and Madam Hooch blew her whistle. Everyone left the ground, sending mud everywhere.

The bludgers and the snitch were released first, followed by the quaffle which Madam Hooch threw up at them. James was above the game immediately. He tried to follow the progress of the game, but it was nearly impossible. Without being able to hear the commentator, James had to keep flying by the podium. Hovering right next to the podium, James could hear what was going on. Although how the commentator knew who had the quaffle was beyond James’ understanding.

“Black passes to Redwood, who passes it back, Black passes to Longbottom. Longbottom passes the quaffle to Redwood which is intercepted by Gonzalaze. This is a very fast paced game folks.” The commentator paused. “Black tackles Gonzalaze and gets possession of the quaffle. Black passes to Longbottom who passes to Redwood who passes it to Black who…” the commentator’s voice rose with excitement. “…SCORES!” James grinned and headed away from the podium and continued his search for the snitch. He dived down to the playing level and had to duck immediately as a bludger came hurtling toward him.

The sky little up as a fork of lighting flashed through it, followed immediately by a crack of thunder. The temperature started to drop as the eye of the storm got closer. The rain pounded them all until their clothes became a soggy mess hanging off of them.

James looked at the ground, which resembled a shallow lake, a saw the snitch! The score was only 50 – 30 to Gryffindor, and Frank had told him to capture the snitch when they were at least fifty points ahead. James had to distract the Ravenclaw seeker, but how? James turned to the right and pointed his broom upward. He had seen a watch, which he hoped was enough reason for the seeker to follow him.

“…like Potter found the snitch!” the commentator said as James zoomed by. The whistling behind him told him that his ploy had worked. He leveled out when he was above the game. The Ravenclaw seeker soared passed him to level out five feet above him.

James took off to see the game properly. He noticed that, through the sheet of rain, Sirius had possession, but Ravenclaw chasers and beaters blocked his path. James dived straight toward them; he could faintly hear the commentator.

“Looks like Potters’ lost it! He is going to crash right into the Ravenclaw team!” the commentator said. The Ravenclaws must have heard him because they looked up at James. They all scattered and Sirius was able to get by.

When the score was 120 – 60 for Gryffindor, James decided he should actually look for, and capture, the snitch. He spotted it, hovering near Kate’s knee. He shot toward her. He could only imagine what the commentator would say about this stunt. Kate’s eyes widened as he drew closer to her. The snitch shifted to the left, away from Kate, he banked left and pursued the snitch as it fluttered off. Almost immediately he heard the distant whistling sound of someone chasing him. The snitch flew upward and James flattened himself to the broom handle to go faster. He extended his hand and, just as he grabbed the snitch, a fork of lighting cut through the sky. The bolt traveled through James, and through the Ravenclaw seeker, who had grabbed on to James’ broom. They both fell out of the sky; all of their muscles fried, and fell into darkness.


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Chapter 8: Christmas Improvement

“Do you think he’ll ever wake up?”

“Of course he will.”

“It was some fall.”

“Yeah, and I bet getting struck by lightning didn’t help matters much.”

James groaned and lifted one eyelid slowly. Everyone was quiet instantly. He saw blurry people standing around his bed, he opened his other eye but it didn’t bring the people into focus. He tried lifting his hand to rub his eyes but his arm didn’t move.

“Are you okay James?” asked a voice that James knew was Sirius.

“Oh yeah, I’m great.” he replied sarcastically.

“That was some fall.” repeated an unfamiliar voice.

“Who said that?” asked James tentatively.

“I did.” A person moved. “Beret.” he clarified.

“Are you sure you’re okay?” asked Remus.

“I can’t see.” said James, scared that this was permanent damage. He tried lifting his arm again, but nothing happened. “What’s wrong with my arm?”

“That much electricity caused your muscles to cramp up.” replied Remus.

“Let me through, please, thank you.” said a brisk voice. “Ah Mr. Potter, are you having trouble seeing?” James nodded. “Then try these on.” Madam Pomfrey placed a pair of glasses on James’ face. Instantly everything jumped into clarity. “Is that better?” Madam Pomfrey asked kindly.

“Yes, but what was wrong with my eyes in the first place?” asked James.

“Getting struck by lightning can have a few side effects. You are lucky that you and Miss Chang didn’t get killed.” she replied. Turning to everyone else, who James realized were his friends and quidditch team mates, she said, “Mr. Potter needs his rest, you can all visit him tomorrow.” They all started to walk away.

Sirius turned back, “Get better.” he said as he left the Hospital Wing. James groaned as he looked at the rim of the glasses.

“Is this… blindness only temporary?” asked James as Madam Pomfrey waved her wand over his muscles.

“No, it isn’t.” Madam Pomfrey looked up and stared James in the eyes. “I’m sorry Potter.” She gave him something to drink, which put James to sleep instantly.



James and the Ravenclaw seeker, Christy Chang, which he found out was a fourth year, were let out after a week in the hospital. Christy didn’t have a serious side effect such as blindness, but she did conduct static electricity a little too often, if you were to touch her, you would certainly get shocked. It was December already when James was let out. Signs of Christmas were everywhere. The suits of armor didn’t creek as much, and they would say ‘Merry Christmas’ to anyone who walked by. Also, some snow had finally stayed. People could be seen in the snow all the time, when they didn’t have any homework. Very soon though, the snow became deeper, and all the first years had to have a teacher carve them a path to get to Herbology.

“What are you doing?” asked Remus at James and Sirius, for they had a huge piece of parchment – which looked like many pieces of parchment put together – spread out on James’ bed.

“Improving the map.” said Sirius, careless waving his wand over the paper.
“How exactly are you doing that?” Remus asked, setting his bag down and coming closer.

“We took our original drawing and placed it on a bigger, more detailed scale.” replied James, looking intently at the map.

“How are the lines so straight?” asked Remus.

“We’ve spent time in the library.” Remus’s eyes went wide at this. “Don’t look so shocked! I would almost take it as an insult.” Sirius grinned. “Anyways, we found some spells for the map there and decided to use them.”

“This is brilliant work!” Remus said. Peter walked into the room.

“What’s brilliant?” he asked.

“What they’ve done to the map.” Remus said.

“Yeah, now all we need it to do is show where people are.” James said, standing up and folding the map.

“Yes, that will be difficult magic. We might have to wait until we are fifth or sixth years to perform it.” said Remus.

“That’s too long.” said Sirius, flopping onto his bed.

“It’s the best we can do.” replied Remus.



Sirius, James, Remus and Peter had the dormitory to themselves. Thomas had gone home to visit his family, along with most of Gryffindor tower. Even Lily and some of her friends left, much to the disappointment of James. It was Christmas Eve, and the four boys, Kate and Kayla were all sitting in the common room. Kayla had gotten out a huge bag of chocolates her parents had given her and was sharing with everyone.

“Your parents sent you this much chocolate?” said Sirius, staring at the two pound bag of chocolate.

“Yeah, it took two owls just to get it here.” Kayla replied, taking out another piece.

“Your parents must love you. Last year, my folks sent me the smelliest sock, with a note attached to it saying ‘do the laundry’.” Sirius laughed at that.

“I don’t remember a smelly sock Sirius.” James said, smiling.

“Yeah, like I wanted to kill you guys. That sock just about knocked me out. I was surprised the owl made it that far without dropping out of the sky. I set the thing on fire.” replied Sirius, taking more chocolate. They all laughed at that for a while. Some time later, they decided that it was time to get to bed. They grudgingly climbed up the staircase and fell asleep as soon as they hit their beds.

“James, Remus, Peter wake up! It’s Christmas!” yelled Sirius, bouncing all three beds as he passed them. James sat up and looked around. Everything was all blurry. He didn’t make the connection for a full minute that he had to put on his glasses. Even though he hated having to wear them, he had grown almost fawned of them. Once everything was in focus, he started to unwrap the mountain of presents at the foot of his bed.

In the end he obtained quidditch gloves from his parents, a blank book from Sirius (who had smirked slightly, a sly gleam in his eye), some candy from Peter and a few mischievous objects from Zonko. It was a good Christmas indeed.

After messing around for a while, the boys headed out of the dormitory. They walked down the stairs and down a corridor. Aimlessly walking around, they came upon a strange statue. It was a witch with only one eye.

“Do you think it does anything?” asked Sirius.

“Maybe.” answered James, pulling out his wand.

“You don’t seriously think you’ll know the spell to open it do you?” Remus asked.

“Nope.” said James casually. He tapped his wand on the statue. Just as expected, nothing happened.

“You are going to have to know the right words to open it.” Remus said. “I doubt they are just going to come to you.” James barely listened as he was looking too intently at the statue. He thought he saw something ripple under the surface as his wand touched it.

“James? Are you listening?” asked Remus.

“I think we lost him.” said Sirius seriously. “Oy, James.” Sirius said suddenly, smacking James in the back of the head.

“What?” asked James, whirling to face them.

“Are you okay?” Sirius asked innocently.

“Yeah, I just thought I saw something.” said James, turning back to the statue. He tapped his wand again and held it there. Words did flash across the surface of the statue and James finally caught what they said. He stepped back and tapped his wand to the statue again. “Dissendium,”

“How did you know that?” asked Remus in awe as the one eyed witch moved aside to reveal a hidden passageway that dropped out of site. James shrugged as he stepped inside.


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Chapter 9: Snivellus

After adding the one–eyed witch passageway to the map, the boys went outside, to enjoy the snow of Christmas. James had been lightly kicking the snow aside to carve a path when he swung his foot at a pile of snow a little too hard. The snow went flying in Sirius’ direction and hit him full in the face. Sirius shook his head like a dog and glared at James. James grinned and raised his hands in mock surrender.

“You know what this means, don’t you?” asked Sirius in a quite voice.

“War,” James replied in an equally quite voice. Instantaneously, Sirius and James jumped into a crouch to gather up snow and flung it at each other. This exchange happened so fast that Remus and Peter didn’t react until they both got a healthy dose of snow in their face.

They spent an hour flinging snow at each other. After some time they got a little smarter and built a small wall to protect themselves. They only called a quits when they were all soaked to the bone and shivering uncontrollably. They nearly ran to the common room so that they could stand in front of the fire place. A half hour after the boys came in, they were still standing in front of the fire, not looking any dryer. Kate and Kayla came down just then, took one look at the four boys, and broke out in laughter.

“What were you doing? Did you decide to take a dip in the lake in the middle of December?” Kate said once her laughter subsided.

“N-no,” stuttered James, shaking uncontrollably. This sent the girls into hysterias again.

“Here, we’ll help you.” Kayla said, coming up to the four. She and Kate both pulled out their wands and pointed it at them.

“Whoa!” Sirius said, throwing his hands in surrender. “You aren’t going to set us on fire are you?”

“Of course not,” Kate lowered her wand a bit and said in a mockingly serious tone, “but we could if you wanted us to.”

“No, that’s okay.” James said quickly. Kate giggled as Kayla and she performed a spell that steam dried their clothes.

“How did you learn to do that?” asked Remus, looking astonished at his dried clothes.

“Being friends with Lily forces you to learn more spells than really necessary.” Kayla said, almost sadly. Sirius laughed at that.

“Thanks by the way.” said James as Kayla and Kate walked past them toward the portrait hole.



The winter break soon ended and everyone came back to Hogwarts. Even faster it seemed, the snow started to melt away from the grounds, leaving everything wetter than before. It was one Saturday in March, when the boys were outside, that they made a new enemy.

“Snape. What type of name is that?” asked Sirius as they sat watching Severus Snape cross the grounds, his greasy hair lying slightly matted over his face. “He doesn’t really look like a Snape to me.”

“Notice how greasy his nose is. It must be impossible to keep those books clean with that thing in them all the time.” James said, eyeing Snape with distaste.

“Come on, what has Snape ever done to you?” asked Remus.

“Well, nothing, but that doesn’t matter,” said James, turning to look at Remus, “now does it?” Remus sighed but didn’t say anything else.

“Sniffly.” said Sirius, still trying to come up with a name. “No, no… umm… Snivlly.”

“Sounds okay,” said James.

“Needs something,” said Sirius distractedly. He snapped his fingers, eyes brightening over an idea. “Got it! Snivellus.” James roared with laughter at that, even Peter started laughing. Remus kept a stony expression.

“Hey! HEY Snivellus!” called James in Snape’s direction. Snape didn’t stop walking, he was too absorbed in a piece of paper to notice. “SNIVELLUS!” roared James, catching Snape’s attention. Snape’s head snapped around to find the source of the noise. By that time, James and Sirius were already standing up and heading over to Snape.

“Oy, Snivellus, where are you going?” asked Sirius as they neared Snape. Snape’s eyes narrowed as they drew closer.

“What happened Potter?” asked Snape with mock concern, tapping his drawn wand to his temple, indicating James’ glasses.

“I ran into a little bit of lightning,” answered James easily enough, “but you never answered my question Snivellus, where are you going?”

“My name’s not Snivellus.” replied Snape shortly.

“Alright, but where are you going, we might be able to accompany you.” said Sirius slyly.

“I don’t think you’ve ever heard of the place I’m going to.” Snape said. His voice changed, taking on a tone suited for teaching babies a new word, as he said “It’s called a li-brar-y.” Snape smiled as James scowled.

“You know wha–” started Sirius, but James cut across him.

“Expelliarmus,” James shouted. Snape was blown back by the sheer force of the spell, while his wand went soaring through the air to land twenty feet away from him. Snape sat up, his lips pulled upward in a nasty snarl. Snape jumped to his feet and lunged for his wand.

“Ah, ah, ah.” Sirius scolded, flicking his wand, making Snape fly off his feet again and land on his back, making the breath rush out of him in a great gust. James and Sirius advanced toward Snape, both of their wands pointed at him. A great ring of spectators had gathered around them by now. Suddenly, the ring broke and a girl sprinted through and stepped in front of James and Sirius.

“Stop it!” she shouted. Lily brushed the hair off her faced in an irritated way and glared at James and Sirius. James just stared at her. “He has done nothing to you. Why are you tormenting him?” she demanded.

“It’s just…” Sirius said, trying to get around Lily. She pulled out her wand and pointed it at him, making him stop and stare wide eyed at her.

“Don’t. Even. Think. About it. Black.” Lily said through her teeth. Sirius wasn’t foolish enough to underestimate Lily and what she was capable of.

“Evans, we won’t hurt good ol’ Snivellus.” James said lapsing into a cocky tone he didn’t even know he was capable of. He was also shocked to see how easy it was not to call Lily by her first name. Lily stared hard at James, then at Sirius, and then lowered her wand. That’s when Snape chose to strike. While they had been talking, Snape had reached his wand and was pointing it at James over Lily’s right shoulder.

“Thanks Lily.” Snape said quietly. James’ eyes widened.

“You’re friends with the slimball?!” James asked incredulous.

“Yes, Severus and I are friends. I don’t think it’s really any of your business though.” Lily said, stepping out of the way so Snape had a clear shot at them.

“Do your worst Snivellus.” leered James. Snape took in a breath to say the incantation when Remus ran up between them.

“No!” Remus shouted, too late. Snape had let the spell go and Remus hit the ground. James and Sirius bent down to look at what was happening to Remus. He was out cold.

“What did you do to him?” asked James, looking up at Snape.

“Nothing that he can’t survive.” Snape smirked as he walked away.

“Get Madam Pomfrey!” shouted James to a nearby Ravenclaw. She turned on her heel and ran into the castle.


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Chapter 10: Another Year Gone

Remus was unconscious for two days. James, Sirius and Peter visited him everyday. Even Lily, Caitlyn, Kate, Kayla and Suzanne dropped in to see how he was doing. Every since Kate, Sirius and James made the quidditch team, the two groups had sort of collided. They would be seen eating breakfast or lunch together in the Great Hall, or studying in the common room.

It was during this time that James and Sirius attacked. Snape never saw it coming. He was walking into the Great Hall when both James and Sirius hit him with a spell that made him swell up like a balloon and bounce down the hall. The teachers deflated him in a minute but not before everyone laughed at him. Even now people could still be seen laughing or giggling at the memory.

Finally, on the second day, Remus woke up. They were glad that whatever spell Snape had thrown at Remus didn’t do any lasting damage. Madam Pomfrey had said that it wouldn’t, that it was a minor spell, but the boys weren’t ready to take her word for it.

“Remus! Hey, Remus. Are you okay?” asked James once Remus had gotten his bearings.

“Yeah, a little, what happened?” he asked, sitting up.

“Snivellus shot a spell at you.” After a moments thought, James added, “Why did you jump in front of us?”

“I thought maybe I could stop you guys from killing each other.” Remus looked sheepishly at them.

“I thought maybe you had gone crazy or something.” Sirius said with a slight grin. Remus managed to smile back before Madam Pomfrey came down the ward.

“Mr. Lupin, what did you think you were doing?” she accused him once she got to the bed. “You shouldn’t get in front of spells like that.” Turning to James, Sirius and Peter she said, “You three should let Mr. Lupin get some rest.”

“But I’m fine!” protested Remus.
“You’re fine when I say you’re fine.” Madam Pomfrey said sternly, but not unkindly. “You three should go.” she repeated.

“Bye Remus.” called James.

“See you later.” Peter said. Once they were outside of the hospital, they slowly made their way to the Great Hall where dinner was still being served.

“How is he?” asked Lily once the three of the sat down.

“Better, he’s awake now.” replied Sirius. James piled some food onto his plate and remained silent.

The next day Remus was let out of the hospital wing. With the end of the school year so close, Remus didn’t take Madam Pomfrey’s advice about keeping the stress level down. Remus was up late into the night, studying for finals, which were in a month, or getting some homework done that wasn’t due for another week. James and Sirius had a different problem on their hands. Quidditch finals were coming up also. Frank had them practicing every day. Sirius and James barely had time to keep up with their homework, much less do it in advance. After a week of intense practice, the quidditch finale was upon them. Gryffindor versus Slytherin.

“Are you all ready?” asked Frank, inside the changing rooms. Everyone nodded seriously. “Then let’s go.” Frank led the way onto the pitch. It was sunny out, visibility was good. They reached the center with the Slytherins. Longbottom and Montag shook hands, which looked more like they were breaking knuckles, and then they were off.

“Montag gets possession of the quaffle and passes it to… oh no, Longbottom intercepted the pass! Longbottom heads up the field and throws a hard pass to Black who passes it to Redwood. Redwood swings around the goal post and throws it to Black who shoots and… SCORES! 10 – 0 to Gryffindor!” the commentator was saying.

James was ten feet above the game and could clearly hear everything that was going on. James watched the Slytherin team closely, looking to see if they tried anything that would bring harm to his team mates. James was still circling the pitch an hour later. With the score 50 – 10 for Gryffindor, James had to fake out the Slytherin seeker anytime he saw the snitch. James wanted to wait until they had a good lead on the Slytherins before he caught it.

Another hour passed and James decided that being 70 points ahead was probably enough. James started to really look for the snitch. A few minutes later he found it. He took off after it and not a second later he could hear the Slytherin seeker close behind him. James nearly crashed into the goal post as the snitch climbed steeply upward. James followed it. He closed his hand tightly around the snitch and level out his broom. Below him, everyone was cheering. They had won the match.

“Amazing! We’ll probably win the Quidditch House Cup!” Frank exclaimed as they headed toward the changing rooms.

“More than likely, we won each match by a landslide.” Remilda said. Everyone couldn’t stop smiling at the fact that they probably won the Quidditch Cup. James, Sirius and Kate headed back up to their common room to tell their friends the good news.



Before anyone knew it, finals were upon them all. Fifth and seventh year students had the hardest time, as always, when it came to finals. Their finals counted more than the finals that all the other years took. Some students had already been in the hospital wing to calm their stress level. Madam Pomfrey was working around the clock to treat students with calming draughts.

James, Sirius and Peter’s first final was Care of Magical Creatures while Remus went off to Ancient Runes. After a grueling test on their knowledge of magical creatures, the three boys met up with Remus for lunch. While they were eating, they were studying for their next exam, Defense Against the Dark Arts. Once they were done eating, they headed up to the third floor to take their next final.

The next few days passed as such. They had two finals a day for about four days. They would stay up till about midnight studying and then studying again during lunch. Remus by far had the tougher schedule. Ancient Runes beat both Care of Magical Creatures and Divination. James and Sirius tended to sleep in Divination, which would be why they couldn’t answer a single question on their final. They made up for it in Transfiguration though; they could answer and demonstrate each question with outstanding ease.

“I’m glad that’s over.” Sirius said after they came back to the common room from their last day of exams.

“Me too,” James seconded.

“We only have one more day until we leave Hogwarts for the summer.” Remus pointed out. “What do you want to do?”

“Nothing,” Peter put in. The finals had been especially difficult for him. Sirius snorted.

“This is the last day before we can’t use magic for a whole two months.” James said.

“I don’t think we should cause trouble with only one day of school left.” Remus reasoned.

“Ah come on.” whined Sirius.

“Sirius,” warned Remus. “We really shouldn’t do anything that would get us expelled.”

“Fine, what’s your suggestion?”

“We could go outside, it’s sunny out.” Remus observed.

“That’s boring.” said James.

“Fine, I don’t have an idea that won’t get us into trouble.” Remus said.

“We could pack.” Peter put in. “We are leaving tomorrow, when else are we going to do it?” he asked when the three of them looked at him as if he were crazy. James exhaled sharply.

“I guess Peter’s right. Come on.” James led the way upstairs to the boy’s dormitory. Once they had finished packing, it was time to join in on the end of the school year feast. The boys dug into all the food, and then all the dessert as it replaced the main meal. After all the plates were returned to their spotlessly clean state, Dumbledore stood up.

“Another year, gone. As I am sure you all must be anxious to know, it is time to announce the winners of the House Cup.” Dumbledore paused as thunderous applause followed his words. “In fourth place, is Hufflepuff with 365 points.” Another pause as light applause met his words. “In third place, Ravenclaw with 422 points.” Another, slightly louder applause. “In second place, with 455 points, Gryffindor. And in first place, Slytherin, with 456 points.” The Gryffindors groaned as they realized how close they had been to winning the House Cup. “Now, the winner of the Quidditch Cup is, Gryffindor!” The Gryffindors cheered louder than the Slytherins that they won the Quidditch Cup. “Now, time for you to get to bed.” Dumbledore sat down as everyone else in the hall stood up and went to their dormitories.

The next morning, everyone was on the train by 11 o’clock. James, Sirius, Peter and Remus found an empty compartment and sat down inside. As the train began to gain speed, Sirius pulled out a deck of Exploding Snap. They played until the lunch trolley came by then they sat and ate their snacks for a while.

“Sirius, I think my parents might be a little late picking us up, but nothing too bad.” James said.

“Ah,” groaned Sirius. “I won’t even be staying at your house James.”

“Why not?” James asked.

“My parents want me home.” Sirius grimaced horribly. James was too shocked to say anything. Sirius had stayed at James’ house so often that James actually forgot Sirius had a house of his own.

“Why?” he asked once he pulled himself together.

“I dunno, probably they need another house elf.” Sirius shook his head. All three of them stared at Sirius sadly, sympathizing with his predicament. They were silent until the train started to slow down, which brought them back to the present. They grabbed their bags and headed out of the door. James instantly noticed Sirius’ mother. She had an ugly expression on her face once she saw Sirius. Regulus was already standing next to her.
“So decided to join us?” she snarled.

“Not like I had a choice.” murmured Sirius.

“What did you say?” she thundered.

“I said yes ma’am.” Sirius replied gloomily.

“Then come on, you can take Regulus’s bags too.” Sirius struggled with the weight of two Hogwarts trunks.

“Bye Sirius.” called James, Sirius didn’t react. “I’ll get you out of there.” James said quietly. Turning around to Remus who was still behind him, for Peter had left once they got off the train, James said, “You’ll help me break Sirius out of there, won’t you?”

“’Course I will.” Remus replied. Remus’ dad called him then.

“See you later.” James said.

“Bye!” Remus answered, turning away. James waited another ten minutes until his dad came then went home, contemplating the best way to get Sirius out of his home.


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Part 4

Chapter 1: Rescue

After much deliberation, James finally thought of the best way to get Sirius out of his house. Since Mrs. Black was intercepting any owls coming for Sirius, James had to do this without his knowledge. Remus had come over after a few weeks and was helping James detail a plan to spring Sirius from his prison. Right now, James and Remus were locked up in James’s room.

“We can just fly in on brooms and open his window.” Remus suggested.

James instantly dismissed the idea. “Sirius said his house is hidden. Since they don’t have a secret keeper, Sirius was able to write down his address.” James pulled a piece of paper out of the back pocket of his jeans and handed it to Remus.

“’Number 12 Grimmauld Place’?” said Remus, he tapped the paper urgently while he stared into space. “I know where this is… Where have I heard this before?” He snapped his fingers. “Of course, when I was six I was playing soccer in the street with some of my friends. This building suddenly appeared out of nowhere and I accidently kicked the ball at the window. We all scattered, but I noticed the address.” Remus handed the paper back to James who returned it to his pocket.

“How do you suppose we get in if the building is hidden?” asked James.

“I think if you just say the address, the building will appear.” Remus answered.

“So we’re just going to walk up and take Sirius through the front door?” asked James skeptically.

“We’ll need a distraction…” replied Remus.



“Stop worrying, this plan is full proof.” Remus whispered urgently at James as they sat behind a bush staring at Numbers 11 and 13 Grimmauld Place.

“Alright,” James said, ducking behind the bush. “Go Lily.” Lily stood up and headed to the break in the fence between the two houses. James could faintly hear her murmur the address. The whole ground shook with the vibrations of the house appearing. The houses on either side didn’t seem to notice a building emerge from nowhere. James and Remus glanced at each other and picked up the brooms at their feet. They went around to the side of the house and flew up to the nearest window.

The first window they came to was blocked by a curtain. They moved on to every window until they looked upon a room that looked orange at first glance. Closer inspection revealed that posters covered every square inch of the room. They were Gryffindor posters. This had to be Sirius’s room. They both spotted Sirius lying on his bed, staring up at the ceiling, lost in thought.

James knocked lightly on the window and pried it open. Sirius heard the noise and immediately snatched up his wand and turned to face them. His face changed from hard determination to shock then wonder. James threw open the window and scrambled into the room, closely followed by Remus.

“What are you guys doing here?” asked Sirius in a whisper.

“No time to explain, get your things and let’s go!” James said. Sirius didn’t need any prompting. He sprang into action, grabbing random items here and there. He had soon loaded his trunk and headed over to the window. Sirius got on the back of Remus’s broom and held one handle of his trunk while James held the other. Together they went back to the bush they had hidden in earlier. Just as they landed they heard the loud slam of a door being thrown shut and Lily appeared shortly after.

“Wha–” Sirius started but James silenced him with a look. Lily got on the broom behind James and the four of them disappeared into the night. James dropped Lily off at her house without saying anything to her and flew back to his house. Remus and Sirius were already in James’s room with Sirius’s things.
“What…?” Sirius managed. Remus and James grinned at each other. “How did… what… how…” Sirius trailed off, jaw hanging open.

“Easy Sirius, you should be glad, we rescued you.” James said.

“How did you manage that?” said Sirius finally.

“We asked Lily–”

“More like begged.” James muttered.

“Yes, we begged Lily to help us.” replied Remus. “She distracted whoever answered the door while we flew to your bedroom window.” Sirius just stared at them, and then slowly grinned.

“My mom is going to go ballistic once she finds out you guys broke me out of my prison.” Sirius said, laughing softly.


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Chapter 2: Platform 9¾

“Morning sleepy heads.” called a soft voice. James cracked opened his eyes and blinked rapidly at the bright sunlight streaming in through the window.

“Morning,” said James, sitting up and looking at his mom. He looked over at Remus and Sirius, who were also just waking up.

“I’ll have breakfast ready soon, so don’t fall asleep!” she said kindly, but firmly.

“Ah man! Food!” said Sirius, jumping off the floor and getting changed faster than either Remus or James thought possible.

“I know you love food and all, but that’s a little much Sirius, even for you.” said Remus.

“Oh, it’s just that my mother didn’t believe in feeding me, so I had to sneak into the kitchen at night and get something to eat. Of course, she put a charm on everything so that I couldn’t see it.” replied Sirius, half-way out the door. Once he finished he was gone, running down the stairs to the kitchen. Remus and James followed more slowly, taking their time to get changed.

James and Remus entered the kitchen and James was immediately hauled off by his mother. She dragged him into the living room and sat him down on the couch. James looked at her cautiously as she paced up and down in front of him.

“James Potter,” she started off, things looked bad. “How could you take Sirius from his home without permission?”

“Mom, he was miserable! His mother is horrible.” replied James.

“That may be but you should have talked to your father and me first.” she continued to pace. “Mrs. Black is going to come bearing down on our door looking for Sirius.”

“I don’t thing she will actually.” said Sirius from the doorway, they both turned to look at him. “Sorry, it’s just that I think she is glad to be rid of me.”

“Yes, well, James, next time you rescue one of your friends, tell me and your father first.” Mrs. Potter said.

“Yes mom.” replied James.

“Now, are you up for breakfast?” Mrs. Potter asked, walking out of the living room and back into the kitchen. James followed behind and sat down at the table across from Remus and Sirius.



The weeks flew by and before anyone knew it, September 1st was upon them all. James and Sirius had spent the better part of the morning finding and packing their things. Remus had packed the night before, but James and Sirius didn’t take his advice to do likewise.

“Come on boys! We’re already five minutes late!” Mr. Potter called up the stairs. James and Sirius appeared at the top of the stairway a moment later, and loudly clanked their trunks down the stairs. They dragged themselves out of the house and hefted their trunks into the back of the Potter’s car. Once they climbed into the back seat and shut the door, they were off.

It took them almost twenty minutes to reach Kings Cross Station. They all put their trunks on a trolley and ran through the crowd toward the brick wall that marked the entrance to Platform 9¾. As they reached the wall, the boys only slowed to check if anyone was watching, then ran on through.

The huge red steam engine was billowing smoke as always. James, Remus and Sirius didn’t have time to admire the hidden platform. They could just see Peter sticking his head out of one of the doors along the train. Just then, the whistle rang out and the train started to move forward. James, Sirius and Remus sprinted to Peter, who had thrown open the train door. The train was picking up speed and Peter was getting farther away.

James leaped at the open door and caught Peter’s hand, while maintaining a good grip on his trunk. Peter hauled James in until he didn’t any more help. Remus was next, jumping at the doorway while carrying a nearly fifty pound trunk behind him. He caught the open door and both James and Peter grabbed the front of his shirt and hauled him in. Lastly, Sirius jumped at the door. He missed the entrance by a foot. The train was moving too fast.

James spun around and flew open the lid of his trunk. He pulled the broom he had gotten two years ago for Christmas. James jumped out of the doorway in search of Sirius. Sirius had hit the ground after missing the doorway and was so covered in dust that James had mistaken him for a rock at first. James landed a foot away from Sirius and helped him up. Sirius climbed onto the back of James’ broom and rested his trunk behind him.

James took off and sped after the increasingly receding doorway. The broom traveled faster than the train, James noted with a sigh of relief. It still took them nearly five minutes to reach Remus and Peter again. They flew through the door and Peter closed it behind them with a click. “Let’s find our seats, shall we.” Remus said casually, as if things like that happened all the time.


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Chapter 3: Rejection

It was dark when the train finally slowed down. Sirius, James, Remus and Peter jumped off the train and into the horseless carriage. The Great Hall was as magnificent as always. Sirius slept through the sorting ceremony and only woke up to the smell of food. Only once all the delicious desserts melted away, to leave the golden plates as spotless as ever, did Dumbledore stand up to make his annual speech.

“Welcome to our new students, and welcome back to our older students. I am sure you are all full and tired from that wonderful feast. I just have a couple of announcements before we can send you off to your beds.” He paused to recollect his thoughts then continued. “First off, Madam Pomfrey, our hospital matron wants you all to know that challenging each other to see who can reach the giant squid in the Black Lake first, is not a good idea. Secondly, our caretaker, Mr. Filch, wants everyone to know that magic is strictly forbidden in the corridors. Lastly, to our first years, the forbidden forest is absolutely off limits. Now that all of that is said, it’s time for bed. Good night.”

The whole hall burst in a clatter of people getting up and talking to their friends. James, Sirius, Remus and Peter rushed ahead of the prefects and first years straight to the Gryffindor common room. They all ran up to their dormitory. All of their trunks were there at the foot of their beds. James jumped in the air and flipped over to land on his back on his bed. James didn’t even bother to get changed or to get under the covers before he fell asleep. Remus, Sirius and Peter looked at him cautiously before changing into their pajamas and getting into bed also. Within a few minutes everyone was asleep.

The first week of school passed in a blur for the four boys. They already had a pile of homework to get started on. James couldn’t even believe he was behind on homework already. That didn’t happen until at least a month into the school year. Remus was, as usual, all caught up on his homework. It was Friday afternoon and James, Sirius and Peter were all busy trying to get caught up.

“I can’t believe you don’t have any homework!” James said, outraged.

“I can’t believe you do.” Remus replied, looking up from the book he was reading. “I mean, it’s the first week!”

“I know,” sighed James, scratching down the answer to the problem he’d been working on. Remus raised an eyebrow at him and disappeared behind his book.

An hour later, after Sirius had walked out of the room many times, and almost completely gave up on his homework altogether, they were done. The boys ran to their dorm and stashed their books before running out of the common room. They ran down flight after flight of stairs to try and reach the front door and spend the rest of the afternoon in the pale sunlight. They were just running down the second floor corridor when James collided with something very solid.

“Potter!” screamed a voice from under James.

“Hey Evans,” James replied, rolling off of her. “Want to go out with me?”

Lily got off the floor and stared at James. “I would never go out with you Potter!” With that, she brushed passed the four boys with her friends and disappeared around the corner. Sirius helped James off the floor.

“Sorry James,” said Remus.

“No problem, let’s go.” answered James, walking away from them and down the last flight of stairs to the entrance hall. The other three jogged to keep up with him.

They pushed open the front door and walked out onto the grounds to the great lake in the center of a field of flowing green grass. James threw himself down on the grass under the beach tree next to the lake. They all sat in an uncomfortable silence. No one knew what to say to James after the rough rejection Lily just gave him.

“Are you okay James?” asked Remus finally. James looked up at Remus from his daydream state.

“Yeah, ‘course I am.” he replied in a calm voice. No one bothered to bring it up again.

They stayed outside until the sun had disappeared over the horizon and the half moon was just starting to show its face. They got off the ground and headed towards the castle. They went to the Great Hall and had dinner, Sirius stuffing his face with every food item within arms length. Once the desserts vanished from the table, the four boys stood up and headed off to their dormitory.

James pushed open the portrait hole and walked into the common room. He instantly saw Lily in the far corner with all her friends; Suzanne, Kate, Kayla and Caitlyn. She was laughing at something that one of them had just said. Her head was thrown back, her perfect curtain of auburn hair falling down the back of her chair. James grinned and walked right past Lily up to his dormitory, the other three jogging across the room to catch up.


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Chapter 4: Marauders Map

“James! What are you doing?” asked Remus as James flung the door open to their dormitory. James didn’t give an answer, only threw open the lid of his trunk and stuck his hand down to the bottom, feeling around for something Remus didn’t know. James’ grin spread as he pulled his hand out holding a very crumpled piece of parchment.

“What’s that?” Remus asked. Sirius and Peter walked in just then.

“Hey, it’s the map!” said Sirius, taking the parchment away from James. Sirius unfolded the map on James’ bed. There were lines all over the paper. Remus grinned and walked over to his trunk. He rummaged around for something for quite a while before coming back over to James, Sirius and Peter.

“This should help,” Remus said. He set a packet of parchment on James bed. He laid out individual pieces of paper next to each other then pulled out his wand. He muttered a spell that, to the astonishment of everyone, made the pieces come together to form a perfectly solid, very large, piece of paper. Another wave of his wand, and another muttered spell and all the lines on the first paper were lifted up and set down on the second piece.

“Amazing,” Peter muttered.

“Here are all the separate levels.” Remus pointed at sections of the map. Remus folded the gigantic parchment up so it became a manageable square.

“That is great Remus, but there was also something else I wanted to do.” James took the map and unfolded it again.

“Did you find another hidden corridor?” asked Peter.

“No Pete, I didn’t. I got something better, an idea.” James said, looking intently at the map.

“Well, that’s a promise that you’re up to no good.” Sirius said. James stopped searching the map and looked slowly up at Sirius.

“What did you say?” he asked curiously, the idea growing and snarling at him to use it.

“I said ‘that’s a promise that you’re up to no good’.” repeated Sirius.

“That’s it!” yelled James, startling everyone.

“What’s it?” asked Remus.

“I’m up to no good!” Everyone raised an eyebrow at James and looked at him as if he were crazy. “That’s my idea! We can’t just let our hard work lie around in the open where anyone can use it. We have to hide it, make it a secret.”

“Like a password?” asked Peter.

“Exactly! I didn’t have a good password, but what Sirius just said is it! It’s perfect!” James was so excited everyone else couldn’t help but smile. “We just need a better word than promise…”

“Solemnly?” asked Remus. “How about, ‘I solemnly swear that I am up to no good’?”

“Remus that’s perfect!” James yelled. “But how do we make the map respond to the password?”

“I could look up a book on passwords. There has to be one in the library, every dormitory has a password, there should be a book on it.” Remus turned around and ran out of the dormitory.

Sirius, James and Peter were just sitting around the fire in the common room when Remus came back panting. The sun had set a while ago. Remus threw himself in a chair next to Sirius, trying to catch his breath.

“What did you find out?” whispered James, for there were other people in the common room besides them.

“I learned the spell to make objects respond to passwords.” Remus replied. “It’s fourth year level magic, but teachers don’t bother teaching it.”

“Want to try it now?” asked James, his excitement from the afternoon coming back to him. The four boys raced passed everyone in the common room and hurtled themselves up to their dormitory. James pulled the map out and passed it to Remus.

Remus had his wand out and laid it lightly on the parchment. No one understood the spell he was casting, but it took almost a minute before he released his wand. He said, “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,” the paper didn’t respond. He laid his wand on the paper again muttered something then said, “Mischief Managed,” the lines on the paper disappeared.

“Done,” Remus said. “I hope you don’t mind, I think ‘mischief managed’ is a good closing.”

“Not good, brilliant!” Sirius said.

Remus smiled, “Thanks. Anyways, you just tap your wand to the parchment and say ‘I solemnly swear that I am up to no good’,” the lines redrew themselves on the paper. “To close it, tap your wand to the paper and say ‘Mischief Managed’.” the lines faded off the paper again.

“Amazing! Remus you’re a genius!” James said. He started tapping his wand against the parchment, making the lines appear then disappear continuously.

“All that’s really left is a title. We can’t just call it ‘the map’.” Peter put in. James thought about it for a while.

“What’s another word for troublemaker?” asked James. Remus frowned, thinking.

“A pest,” James shook his head. “A menace,” again James shook his head.

“How about Marauder?” asked Peter. Everyone looked at him. Peter began to feel uncomfortable under their unwavering stares. “Or not…” Peter continued nervously.

“Pete! That’s perfect!” yelled James.

“Would you quite yelling, we are all right next to each other.” Remus said, massaging his ear.

James ignored him. “The Marauders Map,”

“I like it.” said Sirius.

Remus folded up the map until it was the size of a giant Hersey’s candy bar. He drew out his wand and wrote, in big letters ‘The Marauders Map’. The boys stood back to look at their personal map of Hogwarts.

“You know what would be really cool? If we could see where everyone was at this exact moment.” James said quietly.

“That’s highly advance magic, we’ll have to wait to do that.” Remus replied. James sighed and folded the map in half and stuck it in his trunk, closing the lid firmly over it.


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Chapter 5: Lion and the Snake

Before anyone knew it, November was here. There was a significant temperature drop in and around the castle. No snow had yet fallen, but every morning the grass would become solid and form ice crystals. James, Sirius and Kate were spending all of their spare time on the field, practicing their quidditch moves for the first quidditch match of the season, Gryffindor versus Slytherin.

“Great practice, we will definitely beat Slytherin this year.” Frank Longbottom, the quidditch captain, was saying as the whole team trooped up the stairs, dropping big globs of mud everywhere.

No one bothered to respond. Everyone was too tired to say anything at all. Once they reached the common room they all split off into different directions. Remus and Peter came up to James and Sirius, who both resembled mountains of mud.

“Good practice?” asked Remus as he whipped out his wand and slowly made the mud disappear off both of them.

“It was alright.” replied James, throwing himself down in a chair once Remus was done getting the mud off him.

“It was exhausting!” Sirius replied, sitting down on the floor next to the fire place.

“At least the weekend is almost here, you guys can recupe then.” Remus said, taking a seat next to his mountain of books.

“Doubt it. Longbottom will have us on the field every minute.” answered James.

“From dawn till dusk.” added Sirius.

“When does he expect you to do homework?” asked Remus, almost worried for their lack of study time.

“That’s a fair question-”

“Probably at midnight –”

“When were dead tired –”

“And about to fall over –”

“From all the mud outside.” James and Sirius grinned at each other and then cracked up when they saw Remus’ confused expression.

“I’m going to bed.” James said after a while.

“Me too.” yawned Sirius, following him up the stairs to their dorm. James changed slowly then flopped down onto his bed and fell asleep instantly.

Many grueling practices later it was Saturday, and the whole school was in the stands, waiting for the first quidditch match of the season to start. The entire Gryffindor team was in the changing rooms, listening to Frank giving his pre-match speech.

“Okay team, this is it, the big match, Slytherin is the team to beat and we are lucky enough to play them first.” Frank was saying as he paced up and down the room. “We must win this match if we want a chance at the cup. Now lets go out there and win!” Frank led the way out of the room and onto the field.

Once Madam Hooch blew her whistle, the game began. James flew above everyone in a matter of seconds. He was watching as the Slytherins played ruthlessly against the Gryffindors. James watched as another bludger found its mark on a Gryffindor. James dived as he saw a chaser, Remilda, fall out of the sky. He caught the unconscious Remilda and gently set her on the ground.

James headed above the game again. He was just following a new play Sirius and Frank had been working on. They managed to pull off the play with only two people, Remilda being unconscious on the ground. James wished he could hear the commentator, but the wind was blowing the wrong way. He was just thinking this when something bright caught the corner of his eye. He whipped around and chased after the shining object.

It took James almost a minute to figure out that he was chasing a watch. He stopped instantly before he ran over the Slytherin beater. He flew around the commentator’s box to see what the score was.

“Potter nearly kills the Slytherin beater while faking out Montosh!” the commentator was just saying. “There goes Black and Longbottom with the quaffle...” the voice faded out as James moved on. He had seen the score was 20-10 to Slytherin. “SCORE!” the commentator roared into the microphone over the wind. James turned just as the score changed to 20-20. He grinned as he flew back to his position above the field.

The game went on for hours. Long enough that heavy rain clouds closed over the field. In a matter of seconds gigantic rain drops began to fall, soaking everyone instantly. James had to continuously take off his glasses to wipe them clear of water. He finally pulled out his wand from his robes and tapped his glasses, making them impervious to water. Just as he was putting his wand back Montosh flew by. James turned and flew after the seeker.

It wasn’t a fake out, like the one James had done on accident. He could see the golden snitch just in front of Montosh’s fingertips. James urged his broom faster until he was in line with Montosh. James and Montosh were scraping the backs of each others hand trying to get at the snitch. The golden ball took a dive and the two boys chased after it. The snitch cut right through a few beaters and chasers in the middle of the field. The crowd screamed as the two seekers dived through them.

They barely noticed as the two were too preoccupied in catching the snitch first. The snitch abruptly changed directions and flew upwards, right past the two seekers. James was so close to the ground that it took all of his effort to pull his broom back upwards. Montosh wasn’t so lucky. He didn’t manage to pull his broom up in time, but he did roll off just in time, before his momentum smashed him into the ground. Before Montosh could get back onto his broom, James had caught the snitch.

170-20 was not a bad match. Frank had wanted the score to be higher before James caught the snitch, but he was pleased all the same. The Gryffindors had a party in the common room after the game. It only ended when Professor McGonagall came in and told them all to go to bed. The game had lasted seven hours, starting at ten and ending at five. It had been a long day, but James was still excited from the game at one o’clock in the morning, as he lay in his bed trying to get to sleep.


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Chapter 6: Rat, Dog and Stag

A few weeks had passed since the Slytherin/Gryffindor game. Christmas was almost upon them. Snow had finally fallen around the castle, and was now almost two feet deep. It was the weekend before winter break when James, Sirius and Peter sneaked away from Remus (not that he noticed since he was so preoccupied with studying) and headed to an empty classroom.

“James, we shouldn’t be here!” Peter whispered franticly as Sirius locked the classroom door behind them.

“Relax, we have used this classroom before and no one caught us.” James answered reassuringly. He set his backpack down on a desk and took out a book. “Here it is,” James said, opening the book up to the correct page. “Now this is the last spell we have to put on ourselves. Once we put the spell on, we can’t change into animagi for ten months.”

“That’s a long time.” Sirius replied sullenly. “We have to wait until the beginning of the next school year to show Remus what we can do.”

“That’s what the book says. First we have to change into our animagi and have two people perform the spell on us.” James pulled out his wand. “Okay, the spell is Denique Abeo. Peter, do you want to go first?”

Peter nodded and stepped away from them. He scrunched his eyes up in concentration before he transformed before their eyes. A fairly large common garden rat was in his place. James nodded to Sirius to take out his wand as he read the next step.

“We have to concentrate for a long time on this spell. It takes almost a minute to take full effect and we have to maintain the spell that long.” James said, stepping away from the book, next to Sirius. They both raised their wands and at the same time said the spell. Green and purple light flowed out of the two wands and struck the rat still sitting patiently on the floor. James concentrated on keeping his mind perfectly blank so as not to disrupt the spell.

Green and purple mixed to encase Peter in a bright light. Peter’s form kept shifting between a rat and himself. After a minute, the spell began to fade without James and Sirius’s help. Peter returned to his human form almost instantly.

“How was it?” asked James.

“It felt weird, like my skin was changing into something different.” Peter replied.

“Well, in any case, we have to go through with it. Peter we need you to concentrate really hard on the spell we performed. It only lasts a minute.” James continued. Sirius stepped forward instantly and transformed into a huge bear like black dog. James and Peter both pointed their wands at Sirius and repeated the spell.

Again, Sirius was enclosed in the green and purple light. He also changed between a dog and a human. Once the spell began to fade Sirius straightened up and slowly began to change into a human, fur melting into human flesh.

“My turn.” James smiled as he got up onto a desk and jumped into the air, changing mid jump to land in front of them as a beautiful white stag. The spell was incredible. It did feel like it was changing you. Animagi and human form combined to make up who you are. All too soon the spell stopped and James was straightening up as a human.

“That was incredible.” James said.

“Now what do we do?” Peter asked.

“We sneak back to see if Remus knows we’re gone.” Sirius replied.

The three unlocked the door and stepped into the corridor. They raced up the steps and back through the portrait of the Fat Lady. Remus hadn’t moved from his seat by the fire and all the books surrounding him. James, Sirius and Peter quietly made their way over to Remus and sat down in chairs opposite him. They all picked up a book and flicked to a random page. Remus put down the book he was reading and looked at them.

“So, where did you go?”


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Chapter 7: Wintery Full Moon

Sirius and James just looked at each other, lost as to how to answer Remus’ question. They were both just sitting there, as if they had been struck dumb when Peter jumped in to cover for them.

“We walked around the castle, see if we could find any hidden passageways.” Peter answered. James and Sirius both smiled at Peter for his great save.

“Okay,” Remus answered, disappearing behind his book again. James and Sirius instantly put down the books they had been pretending to read. Sirius ran up to their dormitory and came back a second later with a chess board.

“I never knew you had a wizard’s chess game.” James said.

“Yeah, I play sometimes.” answered Sirius, setting up the pieces.

“Just so you know, I’m quite good at chess.” James said. “My dad taught me how to play since I was little.”

“Good, then beating you will be all the better.” Sirius smiled slyly up at James.

“Want to bet on it?” asked James.

“No, you guys don’t bet.” Remus jumped in, lowering his book again.

“Okay, the loser has to run around outside with only his underwear on.” Sirius said, ignoring Remus.

“No, it’s snowing outside, you could catch your death.” Remus said.

“It’s a deal.” James answered, again ignoring Remus. Remus grunted as he slumped back in his chair and started reading again. A half an hour later the chess game was just finishing up. Sirius still had five pieces left while James only had his king. A minute later Sirius called check mate.

“Well,” Sirius raised an eyebrow at James, his eyes darting toward the window as if reminding him of the bet.

“Fine,” James walked up stairs into their dorm and came back down wearing nothing but his boxers. “Are you happy now?”

“Only when I see you freeze.” laughed Sirius. Many people were in the common room. All of the girls were staring at James. He sighed as he walked to the portrait hole and climbed out. Sirius, Remus, Peter and many girls followed.

“It’s a good thing no teachers are around.” Remus hissed at James, as if just by saying it he would summon a teacher.

James didn’t stop even as he reached the front door. He boldly pushed them aside and walked, bare feet, into the two foot deep snow. He walked all the way to the lake and back. He calmly walked though the doors and closed them behind him.

“I’m impressed,” Sirius said when they got back to the common room and James had put his clothes back on. “At the amount of girls that followed us around!” Sirius laughed as he sat down on a chair.

“I was surprised,” Remus said.

“Yeah,” James replied quietly, staring into the fire, trying to regain the warmth that was robbed of him when he stepped outside. Sirius went on laughing quietly.

All too soon it was four o’clock. Remus had told them that in the winter he had to leave earlier because the sun set earlier and the full moon rose earlier. James, Sirius and Peter hadn’t really noticed because Remus had snuck off without telling them.

“Why didn’t Remus tell us he was leaving?” whispered James again from the window in the boy’s dormitory.

“He didn’t want us to worry?” Sirius replied. James stared at the Whomping Willow and the full moon.

“I’m going.” James stood up.

Sirius blocked his way. “And do what?” James was stumped on that question. He just knew that he couldn’t leave Remus. He saw the same determination in Peter and Sirius’s eyes, but they were smart enough not to follow it.

“Fine.” James got into bed and tried to go to sleep. It was almost midnight and the spell they had cast was taking a nasty toll on the three of them. They were so physically exhausted even though they hadn’t done anything. James heard Peter snoring instantly, and soon fell asleep himself.

James woke suddenly when he heard the crash of something hitting the dormitory door. He got up and opened the door only to see Remus lying on the floor. James ran and woke Sirius up and had him help get Remus into the dorm.

After much struggling, Sirius and James managed to get Remus into bed. Remus hadn’t woken up so James had come to the conclusion that he knocked himself out when he hit the door. James was glad that the light from the full moon wasn’t shining in through the windows and that the darkness covered what James only imagined Remus looked like. Without a word, James and Sirius both went back to bed to catch a few more hours of sleep before they officially had to wake up.

“Wake up!” Peter said, shaking James so hard he thought for a moment that it was an earthquake.

“What?” asked James, sitting up and rubbing his eyes. He glanced at his watch and growled at Peter, “It’s six in the morning on a Sunday. I don’t want to be up!” He fell back onto his bed and closed his eyes.

“No, you have to see what’s wrong with Remus.” Peter said. James sat up again without a word and went over to Remus’ bed.

He was a mess. There were so many cuts on his face that it was almost beyond recognition. He also had a bruise on his head, which James had to laugh at.

“What’s so funny?” asked Peter, astonished that James could laugh at his injured friend.

“You see that bruise on his head?” Peter nodded. “He got that last night from hitting the door.” replied James, chuckling softly. Peter grinned also. Of course, that was the only funny thing about how Remus looked. His fingernails were caked in his own blood where he had continuously scratched himself. His knuckles were openly bleeding from where, James guessed, he had punched something.

“There is nothing we can do.” James said at last. “Only time can heal.” He patted Peter on the shoulder and got back into bed.


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Chapter 8: Daily Prophet

Thomas had left the dorm in a hurry. James guessed that he didn’t want to be seen hanging around with someone that looked as if they lost a bad fight. James didn’t wake up until eight. Remus was still sleeping. The three boys didn’t want to wake Remus so they left the dorm quietly. It was now January. The full moon had just passed again, and Remus didn’t look any better this time around either. Christmas had brought no change in the weather. The snow was here to stay, it seemed. The break was almost over, the last weekend before all the students that had left flooded the halls again.

“I hate this.” Sirius said, pounding his fist against the Gryffindor table. Nearby people turned to stare at him.

“Hate what?” replied James, stabbing a sausage with his fork.

“I hate that we can’t help Remus when he clearly needs it.” Sirius replied, taking a bite.

“We will next year.” James said. “And besides, it’s not as if no one is helping him, Madam Pomfrey knows. She is the one that walks Remus to the Whomping Willow.”

“It’s not the same.” Sirius answered. As soon as Sirius said that, Remus walked into the hall. Upon seeing them, he staggered in their direction. As soon as he sat down the owls arrived. Hundreds of owls filled the Great Hall, trying to find their owners. A tawny owl landed in front of Remus with the Daily Prophet. Remus paid the bird a knut before it flew off again.

“I never knew you got the Daily Prophet.” Peter said.

“You have to keep current Pete.” was Remus’ reply. James was staring at Remus. He had considerably less cuts on his face.

“Did you see Madam Pomfrey today Remus?” James asked.

“No, why?” Remus answered.

“No reason.” said James. He guessed that Remus did more than school work when he went to the library. Remus nodded and ducked behind the paper.

Five minutes later Remus laid down the paper in astonishment, pointing to an article. “Look at this,” Remus said. “’A wizard who calls himself Lord Voldemort is on the rise to power. He has killed wizards just because they are of muggle origins or because they are half wizard, half muggle. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, as some people are referring to him, has terrorized local muggle towns with dementors.’” Remus looked up at them. “He kills people for no reason.”

“What else does the article say?” asked Peter.

“It only mentions where he has been.” replied Remus.

“Which is where?” asked James.

“Hmm, it says ‘He was last seen in Darlington, but he has also been to Nottingham and Sheffield.’” replied Remus.

“That’s horrible,” Peter whispered. Sirius took a huge bite and chewed noisily.

“Do you not care that people are dying for one mans stupid reasons?” asked Remus, folding up the paper and looking at Sirius.

“Yes, I do.” he replied. “I am just used to it, what with my parents’ pure-blood mania. They continuously talk about getting rid of muggles and half-blood and muggle born wizards. I don’t think it’s a big thing. People show up in the Daily Prophet all the time because they go off on a killing spree. The ministry will catch them.” His eyes were downcast.

“You’re not your parents Sirius.” James said, knowing the depth of Sirius’ distress.

He smiled grimly, “Thanks James.”

“I don’t know if this is any maniac just going out for a killing spree.” Remus replied. “He has been to a lot of places so far and killed a lot of people. Even if the ministry had already put a stop to it; it probably would have still made it to the Prophet.”

“Maybe there really is a psycho on the lose.” James looked around at his fellow classmates to see their reactions. Only one or two people looked worried, which meant that they had read the article. Others were carefree, which said that they didn’t read the article. Sirius looked skeptical but just continued eating.



The first and second week of school passed agonizingly slow for Sirius and James. They only had quidditch to look forward to, which was becoming more bearable now that the massive mound of snow that had covered the grounds was finally starting to disappear. It was in fact a Friday evening when, just as the Gryffindor quidditch team was heading up to the common room, an owl flew in through one of the open windows and landed on James’ shoulder.

“Hey Polly,” James called the owl, recognizing his family owl. They had called her Polly after a muggle rhyme, ‘Polly want a cracker?’

In response she stuck out her leg for him to untie the note attached to it. James untied the note and transferred Polly to his arm. Once he got to the common room he went up to his dorm and set Polly down on a chair. She just stared back at him with her big eyes.

“No, I don’t have food for you, sorry.” James said, sitting down on his bed and unfolding the note. Polly instantly flew off the chair and landed on James’ shoulder again before he could begin reading the note. “Fine,” he murmured, walking over to a window and opening it wide enough for her to fly out. “But be back in the morning and you can get some real food.” James called after the soaring owl.

James unfolded the note again after he closed the window. He immediately recognized his mothers hand writing. Dear James, the note began, I am sure you have read in the Prophet by now about a dark wizard coming into power. I want you to not be scared. I do have one thing to tell you, that will probably make you very happy under the circumstances. Your father and I have decided that Sirius should stay with us over summer break. That is of course if he wants to and if his parents will let him. I hope school is going good. See you at Kings Cross Station. Love Mom. James folded the note up with a smile and ran down stairs to tell Sirius the good news.


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Chapter 9: Slytherin Crew

“Are you serious?” asked James.

“No, I’m Sirius.” Sirius replied.

“Seriously,” James sighed.

“Yes, seriously, I’m Sirius.” he answered. James smacked his forehead. It was now April. The snow had completely disappeared and new flowers were starting to show their colorful faces. The boys were in their dormitory, and James was attempting to get Sirius to talk to him like a civilized person, which wasn’t going so good.

“Are you sure?” asked Peter.

“Yes I’m sure I’m Sirius.” Sirius said crossly, raising an eyebrow.

“When did you ask her out?” asked James.

“During Charms.” replied Sirius.

“Why would Kate, Lily’s best friend, go out with you?” asked Remus, looking up from his book that he was reading on his bed. James had asked Remus how he learned to read and still participate in the conversation around him simultaneously. Remus had answered that it took a lot of practice, but it was necessary to keep up with Sirius.

“I don’t know. I asked her, and she said yes.” Sirius replied, jumping on his bed with a small grin on his face that wouldn’t go away.

“Well anyways, I’m hungry, can we go to dinner now?” asked James walking towards the door without waiting for a reply.

The others followed him to the Great Hall. They were just crossing the entrance hall to go through the huge double doors, and the food that awaited them beyond, when a large crowd of Slytherins blocked their path. Sirius automatically pushed between James and Remus to confront the Slytherins with his drawn wand. In the background, someone was laughing a little too high-pitched while clapping at the same time. The girl pushed to the front of the pack, still clapping and laughing. James recognized her from his first year on the train, when Sirius and she were fighting.

“Bellatrix,” growled Sirius, raising his wand higher.

“Oh look,” she announced, as if seeing Sirius for the first time. “It’s little cousin Sirius!” she laughed again, making James wish he could punch her.

“Get out of the way or I’ll make you.” Sirius said in a low, deadly voice. That only made her laugh harder.

“Did you hear that? Baby cousin Sirius is threatening me!” she took on the voice of someone talking to a child. James, Remus and Peter pulled out their wands, placing themselves defiantly on either side of Sirius. “Oh! We got his little friends to join in too.” Bellatrix continued. A younger kid with hair as black as Sirius’ stepped out of the crowd.

“Hey bro,” the kid greeted Sirius. “Have you missed me?”

“I can’t say that I have Regulus. Do mom and dad still want to disown me?” Sirius replied in a level voice.

“Yes, they do.” smiled Regulus, reaching for his wand pocket.

“Don’t even think about it.” Sirius said slowly, pointing his wand at Regulus’ wandering hand. Regulus withdrew his hand from his pocket with a small smile. Bellatrix, throwing her perfectly straight black hair off her shoulder, whipped out her wand instead, and shot a purple spell at James.

James instantly fell to the ground, unconscious. Sirius looked at James then back at the Slytherins with fire in his eyes. Remus, Peter and Sirius all threw their best spells at the Slytherins. A minute hadn’t even gone by before a teacher came and broke up the fight. It took five teachers to control the Slytherin mob. Everyone got detention, even James, though his three friends stuck up for him and said that he wasn’t involved.

James was moved to the hospital wing on a floating stretcher by Professor McGonagall. Sirius, Remus and Peter skipped out on dinner to go with him. Madam Pomfrey demanded to know what was going on the instant they walked through the door. McGonagall did the best she could to describe the situation, but she hadn’t seen James collapse. The boys could only say that the spell was purple, which didn’t narrow the search down by much.

“I’ll have to keep him over night, maybe throughout the weekend.” Madam Pomfrey said, trying to shoo the three boys out of the hospital.

“Can we see him in the morning?” asked Peter.

“Yes, but right now he has to rest.” she replied.

“He’s unconscious, there is no resting involved in that.” Sirius said indignantly.

“Then there is no point in visiting him, now is there?” Madam Pomfrey replied, closing the door behind them. Sirius grunted and started walking back towards the Great Hall.

“Where are you going?” asked Remus.

“To see if dinner is still going on.” he said in low tones.

“Sirius, how old is your brother?” asked Remus, jogging to keep up with Sirius’ long strides.

“A year younger than me.” he replied through teeth so clenched that Remus had a hard time making out the answer.

“So you really are the only person in your family not to be in Slytherin.” Peter said, impressed.

“Yes and my dear mother almost kicked me out of the house, and the family, when she found out.” he answered. “Regulus and my cousin Bellatrix both got into Slytherin, so my mother couldn’t blame the sorting hat for messing it up on me.” Sirius continued. “I hate being in the same school as them, but then again, my whole family has come to this school.” They were getting close to the Great Hall and Remus could tell that dinner was long over. “There has to be a kitchen around here somewhere…” mumbled Sirius to himself as he walked toward a door next to the Great Hall.

“Sirius, you know that there are no kitchens in Hogwarts.” Peter said.

“But there are house elves.” Remus said. “Hogwarts has the largest population of house elves in England.”

“I hate house elves, those creatures of the devil.” Sirius said. Remus raised an eyebrow. “We have this house elf at home, his name is Kreacher. He despises me, and I him.” Sirius was walking down the hallway, stopping at every painting and examining it before moving on to the next one.

“You really think you are going to find the kitchen by looking at paintings?” asked Remus.

“It can’t hurt. Besides, it’s not like there are doors we can try, now are there?” asked Sirius, stopping only to look at Remus, expecting an answer to his rhetorical question. Remus sighed and Sirius continued his search. After a while he began to touch each painting, none of them reacted. They finally came to a painting of fruit. Sirius ran a hand over the whole painting, stopping only when the pear started to giggle.

“You see, this has to be something.” Sirius said excitedly, tickling the pear again. The pear squirmed and giggled then finally turned into a giant handle, which Sirius pushed down. The painting swung outward to reveal a replica of the Great Hall, right underneath it. The four house tables were in perfect position under their opposites above. There were house elves running all over the place, cleaning and cooking, even though dinner was over. “What did I tell you?” Sirius said with a huge smile, walking into the kitchen.

Immediately, four house elves came up to them. “What can we get you sirs?” the nearest elf asked.

“Do you have any dinner left over?” asked Sirius.

“We can get you some sirs.” The elf replied with a bow before scurrying off into the chaos of house elves. The four house elves came back, carrying a huge tray load of food. “Is this enough sirs?” they asked.

“This is excellent, thank you.” answered Remus, taking the tray from them and walking back to the door.

“Thank you.” Sirius and Peter said to the elves. They bowed low for them before the painting closed on the scene.

“Now we can go to the dormitory.” Sirius said.

“Won’t it look suspicious, us carrying a tray of food through the empty hallways, an hour after dinner has already finished?” Remus said.

“True,” Sirius said, propping his fist under his chin, thinking. Sirius walked up to Remus, took off Remus’s backpack and dumped all the food into it before Remus could say a word. “Problem solved.” Sirius swung Remus’s backpack over his shoulder and walked back to the entrance hall. Remus was scowling as he followed.

“I have books in there you know.” Remus said.

“Then we had better hurry.” Sirius replied. They went back into the dormitory where Sirius dumped all the food onto his bed and they had dinner there. Afterward, Sirius pulled out the Marauder’s Map and tried to add the newly found kitchen. The map kept wiping itself clean whenever Sirius added the kitchen.

“I think the kitchen is unplottable.” Remus said.

“What does that mean?” asked Sirius.

“An unplottable room can’t be put down on a piece of paper or map, or anything else that can show someone how to get into it.” Remus replied. Sirius sighed and unfolded the map more to see the dungeons.

“If only we could track everyone in Hogwarts to see where they are. It would make pulling off a prank that much easier.” Sirius muttered, almost to himself.

“Are you planning on getting the Slytherins back for their stunt today?” asked Remus.

“You bet I am.” Sirius said, smiling slyly.


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I am sorry I haven't posted in a while. This is the last chapter of Part Four. Part Five will be up sometime in the near future (I hope). Anyways, here's Chapter 10!


Chapter 10: A Prank to Remember

Sirius decided to wait until James was released from the hospital to pull off the prank. Sirius had decided on a good way to get them back, but he wasn’t telling anyone. Sirius and Kate, Remus, Peter, Lily, Kayla, Suzanne and Caitlyn visited James all the time. Remus was surprised Lily and her friends came, but decided it was because Sirius was dating Kate.

James didn’t wake up the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. Finally, on the fourth day, James came around. Sirius and Remus were sitting on either side of his bed, talking in low voices.

“Well, we have to wait for him to wake up.” Sirius said.

“Why can’t you just tell me? If you’re worried about Pete not being able to keep a secret you don’t have to worry, he’s not here.” Remus replied.

“Where is he?” asked James weakly, his voice hoarse from days without talking. Sirius and Remus sat up straighter and stared at James.

“You’re awake!” Remus said, astonished.

“Yep,” James replied.

“It’s been a while mate.” said Sirius, clapping him on the shoulder.

“How long exactly?” asked James.

“Four days.” Remus replied. “The Slytherins hit you with a good spell; even Madam Pomfrey couldn’t reverse it.”

“So where is Pete?” asked James, sitting up.

“I have no idea; we haven’t seen him since dinner.” Remus said.

“He is probably in the kitchen; he’s been in there ever since we found it.” replied Sirius.

“What kitchen?” asked James, sitting up even straighter.

“Oh,” Sirius said, making it clear that he brought up the kitchen just so that he could show off about how he found it. “The Hogwarts kitchen.” He finished mysteriously.

“Come on, where is it?” James asked.

“We’ll show you some time, but we should leave and let you get some rest.” Sirius said, standing up after seeing Madam Pomfrey walking their way.

“We really aren’t supposed to be in here this late.” Remus said in a whisper as they bolted towards the door.

“Ah, Mr. Potter, feeling better are we?” asked Madam Pomfrey. James groaned and fell back into the pillows.



James wasn’t released from the hospital for one more day. All four boys were waiting in their dormitory, talking about the brilliant prank that Sirius had come up with. James was laying on his bed, listening to the all time best prank he had ever heard. Sirius was going on and on, waving his hands in the air like a lunatic to emphasize his point. Even Remus had a glint in his eyes that few have ever seen. They were going to pull the prank tomorrow, when the Slytherins least expected it.



They planned to target all ten of the Slytherins that attacked them. Phase one of the plan was starting. During breakfast, Sirius walked up to the large group of Slytherins to distract them. James and Remus (because they didn’t think Peter was capable) floated the spiciest hot sauce ever invented, bought at Zonko’s. It was rumored that steam would actually come out of the person’s ears. No one noticed a floating hot sauce bottle, luckily. When James and Remus gave Sirius the signal that they were done, Sirius walked away from the Slytherins.

The three boys walked over to Peter and watched what they had caused. The Slytherins were shaking their heads, in obvious bemusement that Sirius had walked up to them. One after the other, like dominoes, the ten Slytherins began to spit out their food. The rumor did, after all, have some truth to it. All ten of them had steam coming out their ears, like what you see in cartoons. While the whole Great Hall was cracking up at the Slytherins, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter ate their food quietly.

Even though they told the teachers that Sirius had been talking to them, so he must have spiced their food, the teachers didn’t believe them. The chatter had just begun to die down when they decided to put phase two into action.

The four boys were assigned about three Slytherins each and followed them around secretly. They all had a bottle of the strongest itching powder, also bought at Zonko’s. Once they were done they were supposed to meet outside the portrait that covers the entrance to the kitchen. James had forced Sirius to show him where the kitchen was as soon as he was released from the hospital. It was amazing.

James was following one pair of Slytherins into the bathroom. Once he saw what stall they went into he floated the itching powder above the stall and let the sparkling dust fall onto the toilet paper. He left only when he heard the unmistakable sound of fingernails on flesh. Grinning, he ran down the corridor in search of his next victims.

An hour later, the four boys met by the portrait outside the kitchen. Sirius was in stitches when he arrived, and had to hold on to the wall to keep from falling over. Sirius had followed his cousin Bellatrix, his brother Regulus and Snivellus. He had gotten particular enjoyment out of seeing them going mad with itching. Once Sirius could stand on his own, they made their way to the Great Hall where lunch was being served.

They were just eating their sandwiches when the ten Slytherins arrived. They were still itching, but the hunger pains drove them to face embarrassment. James thought that the Slytherins were in enough embarrassment as it was to bother pranking them during lunch. Come dinner time though, Sirius, James, Remus and Peter decided to mess with their food again. This time they put permanent food coloring in all the food along the whole Slytherin table before anyone entered the Great Hall.

Half way through dinner, a small commotion was being started by the Slytherins. They were pointing at each other, shocked by the many colors each tongue had taken on. Sirius was snorting into his food which made Kate look at him accusingly. That night James went to bed easily with a deep sense of satisfaction of a job well done.


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Hey! I am back with part five!! In case you don't know, with each new part, that is what year they are in. (part five = year five). Just a helpful tip! I hope you enjoy chapter 1!

Part Five

Chapter 1: Unexpected Visitor

Sirius, of course, had to go home to the family that he hates. Even though his parents hate him, they insisted that he come home to them instead of staying with blood traitors. Remus was able to spend a little time with James, but his parents wanted to take him on a trip. The whole two weeks that Remus was at James’ house, they devised a plan to break Sirius free, again. Of course, after the howler that Mrs. Black had giving the Potters’, James’ parents had forbidden him to pull a stunt like that again. They still made the plans, just did not carry them out. James and Remus wrote to Sirius once in while, but they never got a reply back. James figured that his mother screened all incoming mail.

“Okay, you just can’t act so… cool.” Remus was saying to James. He was giving James a crash course on how to talk to Lily.

“What do you mean ‘cool’?” asked James.

“Just, you know, not so, yourself.” Remus said awkwardly.

“Sure, that makes sense.” replied James sarcastically.

“Just trust me.” said Remus.

“Fine,” James sighed, lying down on his bed. It was almost midnight. James was exhausted from all the information Remus had been giving him over the past six hours. “It’s too bad you have to leave tomorrow.” James said, propping himself up on an elbow.

“I know I’ve had fun.” said Remus, throwing some of his clothes into an open pack.

“It sure is going to be boring without someone else around here besides my parents.” James said.

“I’m sure you will think of something to do.” Remus said, sitting down on his bed, and letting out a huge yawn.

James also yawned. He then promptly stood up to turn off the lights. “Good night.” said James, crawling into bed.

“Night.” muttered a reply.

Remus and James were just sitting in the living room, waiting for Remus’ parents to arrive. They had been playing exploding snap for almost an hour. It was right when the card that Remus had just put down exploded, causing a chain reaction of explosions, that the door bell rang. James and Remus looked at each other. James jumped up and ran toward the door. He yanked it open to see Mr. and Mrs. Lupin.

“Hello James, nice to see you again.” Mrs. Lupin said in her soft, friendly voice.

“It is nice to see you too Mrs. Lupin.” James answered, turning back toward the house, he called, “Remus!”

Remus came a second later with his bags. “Hey mom, hi dad.” Mr. and Mrs. Potter came up behind him.

“Hello, would you like to come in?” Mrs. Potter asked Remus’ parents.

“Oh no thank you, we should get going soon. Thank you so much for letting Remus stay here for the summer.” Mr. Lupin replied.

“Remus is always welcome here.” Mrs. Potter said.

“Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Potter.” Remus said.

“Have fun in Romania.” said James.
“Thanks,” Remus said, smiling slightly.

“Good bye,” the Lupins’ called. James watching the car drive away and disappear around the corner. He shut the door and went back to the card game. Not even an hour later did the door bell ring again. James’ fingers were slightly red at the tips where the cards had exploded in his hand. He jumped up and pulled the door open, not sure who to expect. The last person he had expected to be at his front was standing before him.

“Hi Lily,” James said casually. “What brings you here?”

“Who is at the door James?” Mrs. Potter called.

“Lily,” James called back. Mrs. Potter came to the door instantly.

“How are you Lily?” she asked.

“I’m fine, thank you Mrs. Potter.” Lily replied. She looked a little nervous, or was she just tense at seeing him?

“What brings you here?” James repeated.

“My parents and sister have left.” Lily replied.

“Where did they go?” asked Mrs. Potter.

“They went to France again. I had been there so many times that I elected to stay behind, but my parents would not let me stay home by myself. I asked around, but everyone has gone on summer trips. I hope it is okay if I stay here. I am sorry I did not call in advance.” Lily replied, embarrassed.

“It is not a problem at all.” Mrs. Potter said to Lily. “James, will you clean up a room for Lily to stay please.” his mother asked.

James nodded and walked away. He decided to tackle his own room first, since the guest bedrooms were immaculate anyways. Of course, James had to get rid of the spare bed in his room. It had been easy getting it out of one of the guest bedrooms with two people, but by himself was a challenge.

“Need help?” asked Lily, scaring the life out of him and making him spin around on the spot, only to trip over the corner of the bed. He got to his feet instantly.

“Sure.” James said. Lily put her things against the wall and grabbed one end of the mattress and together they walked it back to the appropriate bedroom. They did that with the three other mattresses. Remus and James had thought it was a good idea to stack up multiple mattresses so that they did not have to move a bed frame. “Thanks,” James said to Lily once they were finished.

“No problem Potter.” Lily replied, reminding James that, although they haven’t fought yet, they were not on friendly terms. Lily looked down the long hallway at all the doors as if contemplating something. All the guess bedrooms looked the same, even Lily knew that. “I’ll take that room,” she pointed to a door near the beginning of the hall. James smiled, picked up her bags and walked them into her room.

“How long are you staying?” asked James, putting Lily’s bag on the floor next to the bed.

“Two weeks to a month, I hope its okay? My parents did not know when they were coming back or if they wanted to stay longer.” Lily replied.

“Of course it’s okay that you stay here.” James said, trying very hard to put some of Remus’ lessons to work.


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Chapter 2: Hogwarts at Last

James only lasted an hour without asking Lily out. Lily had scowled and turned her back on him and went to her room. It was going to be a long two weeks. James would spend almost all night on his broom. Sometimes James would fall asleep on the roof trying to get to his room.

“Potter,” called Lily. James woke with a start. It was another one of those mornings where James had fallen asleep on the roof. James sat up and looked at her.

“Mornin’ love.” James grinned, and jumped up and grabbed his broom off the roof. He made a slight bow to Lily then jumped off the roof. Lily screamed until she saw James shoot into the sky, then she just scowled at his stupidity.

James was just thinking about how he was going to be in great flying shape for the quidditch season next year when he saw the secluded park. As usual, no one was there. At one time Lily and James had gone to this park all the time. James still came because it gave him time to think and explore. There was a narrow pathway from the park to the street. On either side of this sidewalk, and surrounding the whole park, was tall dried grass. That was a major reason why people didn’t come here, it was like a park enclosed in walls.

James swung his broom over his shoulder and headed to one wall of grass. He walked a short ways through the tall grass before coming upon a makeshift fort that Sirius and he had built last year. James stayed there for most of the day until the grumbling in his stomach was absolutely unbearable. He stepped out of the fort and jumped on his broom. He had left a window in his room open, which he expertly navigated his broom through, rolled off the broom and opened the door in one smooth motion. James grinned as he finally accomplished that move he had been trying for a few days. James leaned his broom against the door frame and headed down to dinner.



The next few weeks passed in the same manner. James asked Lily out over ten more times before she left. All too soon Lily was gone. Her parents and sister came back to pick her up with only two weeks left before September 1st. James did not get in touch with any of his friends until they all boarded the Hogwarts Express.

James was hauling his trunk behind him down the corridor of the train, trying to look for an empty compartment or one of his friends. Finally, about half way down the train he found Sirius sitting by himself looking out of the window.

“Hey James!” Sirius said enthusiastically, jumping up to help James with his bags. James sat down across from Sirius and stared at him curiously.

“You’re in a good mood.” James pointed out.

“Yep, I’ve been here since six this morning.” replied Sirius. James’ eyes opened wide.

“Why?” he asked.

“My parents wanted to get rid of me early in the day and did not want to wait until eleven o’clock.” answered Sirius with a shrug. James was about to say something when Remus walked in.

“’Ello Remus, have a seat.” Sirius said joyously. Remus raised an eyebrow in James’ direction, which he returned with a shrug. The three were talking about their summers, which James filled them in about Lily’s stay, when Peter joined them.

Almost immediately after Peter sat down, the train started to move. The four boys continued talking about their summers and violently accusing Sirius’ mother of the all the hardship she put on Sirius. Remus also brought up the fact that he had been made prefect, which came as no surprise. He also had to leave for a few hours as they went over prefect duties. That gave Sirius, Peter and James the perfect opportunity to talk without Remus hearing.

“So we can’t change this full moon.” James said once Remus left.

“Why not?” Sirius asked.

“Remember, we can’t change into our animagi form for ten months after we put the final spell on ourselves.” James replied.

“Oh, right, so that means we can’t change until…October.” said Peter, counting up the months. James nodded. A few minutes later the lunch trolley rolled by their compartment. As soon as it left, Remus returned from his prefects meeting.

“Did you know Lily is a prefect?” Remus asked.

“That’s obvious.” said Sirius, leaning back against the seat. James smirked as the train sped its way toward Hogwarts.

The Hogwarts Express arrived in Hogsmeade station after dark. The four boys shared a horseless carriage into Hogwarts. The sorting ceremony was, as usual, painfully long for Sirius, who constantly complained about the length of the ceremony and the decreasing height in the first years. James knew that beneath all of the complaining, Sirius was overjoyed that he was back at Hogwarts.


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Chapter 3: First Full Moon

The first month passed by in a flash. James was so excited about the next full moon that he had to make sure not to let it show around Remus. As it was, the full moon luckily landed on a Friday. Since they would be out all night, not having school the next day was a bonus. Finally, after much waiting, it was Friday.

James, Sirius and Peter had followed Remus and Madam Pomfrey out of the castle and had hidden in a bush near the Whomping Willow. As soon as Remus disappearing into the hole beneath the tree and Madam Pomfrey had gone back into the castle, the three boys appeared from their hiding place. James, Sirius and Peter had to make their way around all of the angry branches that were trying to pummel them into the ground. After a few minutes of dodging around the thrashing branches, all three boys made it to the tunnel.

The three boys followed the narrow tunnel until they climbed up into a wooden trapdoor. Sirius threw it open and they all climbed into a large room. Other than two nice chairs in the corners and some clean white curtains over the windows, the room was bare.

“Now is as good a time as any to try out being an animagi.” said James. The three boys stood away from each other and timidly concentrated on being an animagus. Slowly, all three of them changed into their various animagi forms. James and Sirius took up most of the room as they were such big animals. Peter had to squeal quite loudly for the huge stag and bear like dog to hear him. They all changed back into their human form and grinned at each other.

“That was awesome!” Sirius said, overjoyed.

“Lets just find Remus.” replied James. Sirius and Peter nodded in agreement and the three changed back into animagi’s before continuing through the house. It was obvious no one had lived here for a long time, but it was very neat and clean. Just as James was thinking they would never find Remus in this two story house, did they all hear a loud snarling from behind them.

They quickly turned around and came face to face with Remus in werewolf form. James had never seen a werewolf before, so he froze up immediately. Luckily, Sirius didn’t have that problem. He instantly jumped at Remus as he was about to attack James. That got James to kick his brain into gear. He too charged at Remus. Sirius and James were timid at first. They didn’t want to hurt Remus too badly. But they soon realized that this werewolf wasn’t their friend, the wolf in him had consumed his mind and Remus was fighting them with everything that he had.

Remus clearly wasn’t used to fighting off someone. Normally he just sat in this forsaken house and scratched and bit himself. Being out of practice didn’t seem to bother the werewolf in the slightest. In no time, Remus had thrown Sirius across the room. James charged Remus, antlers first, and pinned Remus to the wall. Peter was squealing out of control about the war waging in the room. Sirius was slowly getting up, looking groggy. While James was distracted about what state Sirius was in, Remus managed to throw James into the wall.

By this time Sirius had gotten up and bitten Remus’ arm. Sirius even hung on when Remus spun in a circle to shake Sirius off of him. James had slammed his head hard against the wall and was changing back into his human form. Peter scurried up to James, trying to get James to wake up. Sirius had realized that James was no longer an animagus and was keeping Remus occupied. Peter finally just bit James on the nose to wake him up. James got his senses back very quickly and instantly changed back into an animagus.

James jumped up and started to help Sirius tackle Remus. All too soon, James and Sirius managed to pin Remus to the floor. Remus was still trying to fight them even with Sirius pinning down his arms and James placing one hoof on Remus’ chest so he couldn’t move. As soon as Remus realized that he wasn’t going to move he stopped struggling. Sirius and James tentatively let Remus stand up. Peter was cowering in the corner to escape the fight. The four animals had a mutual understanding.

James lead the other three through the house, looking for a different exit than the narrow tunnel. James wanted to go and explore more of the grounds that is off limits to students. The four searched the whole house from top to bottom and didn’t find any other tunnels besides the one they had entered. James tilted his head so his antlers could fit sideways and Sirius sucked in as much as he could to get back out of the tunnel

In no time the odd group of animals were making their way down the center of Hogsmeade. James and Sirius were walking on either side of Remus, incase he decided to bolt. Peter was too small to keep up with the bigger animals so he hitched a ride on James’ back. The four explored around all the shops and prohibited areas. All too soon the sun was making an appearance over the horizon. James, Sirius and Peter watched in horror as Remus howled and curled into a tight ball. The full moon disappeared over the horizon and in front of them was Remus in human form.

Remus groaned and looked up and around him. Upon seeing the giant dog and stag standing in front of him he yelped and started crawling backwards. James, Peter and Sirius looked at each other and then changed back into their human form. Remus was lying on the ground, his eyes wide open and staring at the three of them.

“Hey Remus, nice morning huh?” chuckled James.

“Wha...what happened?” Remus asked in shock. James, Sirius and Peter grinned at each other. Remus sank down into the ground and moaned.

“Are you okay?” asked Sirius, kneeling next to Remus. James and Peter also knelt beside Remus.

“Yeah, just changing into a werewolf isn’t easy. More importantly, weren’t you three just animals a second ago?” Remus asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Yep, what do you think?” Peter asked.

“You guys turned into animagi?” asked Remus.

“Yep,” Sirius replied.

“Why?” said Remus.

“Well, we did some research and found out that werewolf bites don’t affect animals. We wanted to keep you company during the full moon but we couldn’t do it while we were human so we turned into animals.” James explained. Remus smiled and closed his eyes. The three were waiting for a response, but when none came, they figured that Remus had fallen asleep. Sirius and James both helped carry Remus up to the castle and into their dormitory. All four boys crawled into bed, making sure not to wake their fifth roommate, Thomas Genami.

A few hours later James woke up. James waited a few minutes until Sirius, Remus and Peter also woke up. Remus instantly sat up and looked around at James, Sirius and Peter. James threw his legs over the edge of his bed and grinned at Remus’ confused look.

“Wow, I had the weirdest dream.” said Remus. “You guys were animagi’s.”

“Hate to break it to you, but that wasn’t a dream.” Sirius said. James chuckled.

“What?” asked Remus. Sirius jumped off his bed, changing into a huge black dog mid-jump, and landed beside Remus on his bed. James poked Remus in his back with one of his antlers while Peter scuttled next to Remus.

“Oh-kay,” Remus said, jumping off his bed. James, Sirius and Peter all changed back, doubling over from laughing at the shocked look on Remus’ face. “That wasn’t a dream, you guys really were with me last night?” They all nodded. “Do you know how dangerous that is? What if you did not change in time and I bit you?” Remus’ shock and concern was evident in his voice.

“Its okay, we changed before we even saw you.” replied Peter.

“By the way, is there a way to get into the Whomping Willow without it killing you?” asked Sirius.

“Yeah, you just get a long stick and hit the knot inside the tunnel.” Remus said. “I just have one more question.” he continued.

“Of course you do.” smirked Sirius.

“Where exactly did I change back into a human?”

“Hogsmeade,” replied James simply.

“What were we doing in Hogsmeade?” asked Remus, shocked.

“I thought you only had one more question?” said James, grinning. Remus looked more scared than any of them had ever seen him. “Okay, okay, we were exploring the town.”

“What if someone came across me as a werewolf? I could have bitten them! I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I inflicted the same torture upon someone else.” replied Remus.

“Why do you think we were there? Sirius and I are bigger than you in our animagi form. We had you pinned. If anything happened and you lost control, we could always stop you.” James replied. Remus sighed, relieved, then started to grin.

“So, what did you guys have in mind for the next full moon?” asked Remus.


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Chapter 4: Whomping Willow

“Well, I do know one thing that we should do.” said James. Sirius glanced up at James from over the top of his homework. Remus and Peter also stopped what they were doing.

“And what is that?” asked Remus. James got off his bed and opened his trunk, rummaging around until he pulled out a huge piece of parchment.

“Well, why can’t we add some secret passages we find outside Hogwarts. We should include the grounds on the Marauders Map.” James replied, unfolding the map and pulling out his wand. “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,” he murmured. Lines instantly drew themselves on the parchment.

“There is no more room to include the grounds.” said Remus, pulling out a piece of parchment from his trunk. “So we will have to add more parchment.” Remus laid the paper next to the bigger map and pulled out his wand. Just as he did before to make the big parchment, Remus muttered a spell and soon the small paper was attached to the map without so much as a seam to show that it was once separate.

“Excellent,” James said, pulling out his wand again to draw the grounds onto the new addition. James paid special attention to the Whomping Willow. He drew the small tunnel all the way until Hogsmeade. They didn’t bother to include that town, since the Hogwarts boundaries ended at the entrance to Hogsmeade.

“Should we really include this passage?” asked Remus, making it obvious he was scared someone would find him as a werewolf.

“Don’t worry Remus, what’s the worst that can happen? Someone will find the map, find out how to use it and happen to get pass that vicious tree and come across you during the full moon?” James said. Peter and Sirius snickered. Remus smiled slightly at the impossibility of the situation. After updating the Marauders Map, the four were so tired that they fell asleep again.



James, Sirius, Peter and especially Remus were back to normal by the next weekend. School was brutal to the four of them. That Saturday, James and Sirius had quidditch try-outs. Since Frank Longbottom graduated last year, there was a new captain with new try-outs to fill Frank’s spot. The captain this year turned out to be Remilda Redwood. She only held chaser try-outs, she liked everyone else to keep them around. Of course, the rest of the team said that it would only be fair if they had try-outs for every position, but Remilda was set on only having the chaser try-outs. In any case, the whole team had to be at the try-outs.

James and Sirius walked down to the quidditch pitch very slowly. Remilda had told everyone to be there at eleven o’clock. James and Sirius were walking down at five minutes after. They were each carrying their brooms also. Remilda wanted to practice as soon as the next chaser was picked. The two finally made it to the pitch at ten after eleven.

There were five people at the base of the goal post to try out for the chaser position. Remilda was standing there, staring hard at James and Sirius as they walked up. Everyone else was already assembled around her and James and Sirius joined their ranks to watch the try-outs.

“Thank you so much, James and Sirius, for coming.” said Remilda sarcastically and, rolling her eyes, she turned back to the new chasers. “Okay, if this is everyone we’ll get started. I will call you up one by one, Kate will be the keeper to get passed. The person with the most goals gets to be on the team.” Remilda nodded at Kate who instantly jumped on her broom and took off for the goals.

All five people that came were guys. They had snickered at the thought of trying to beat a girl. In the end though, they learned their lesson. Not one of them made all five goals in. One guy got zero goals in. Incidentally, he was the first one to try and shoot pass Kate. James and Sirius were laughing quietly at the boy’s stupidity. Remilda had to narrow the choice down to two because they both managed to get three goals in. The two boys flew up again to fight for the chaser position.

Finally, one boy got one more goal in than the other boy and practice began. The newest member, Jason Livingston (who was a fourth year), had to learn all the special moves from Remilda and Sirius in the four hours that practice was in session. Following Remildas’ orders, James was weaving in and out of the chasers, trying to distract them. James had to reply on reflexes alone sometimes when Jason almost slammed into him.

A gust of wind had kicked up half way through their practice. James was gaining on the snitch. But the snitch, being so light and small, could not withstand the wind, and was blown farther away from James. He set his jaw and chased down the snitch. James was so focused on the snitch he didn’t realize where it was leading him.

“James!” he heard Sirius faintly call after him. James slowed down and turned back to see the quidditch pitch was a ways back. He looked forward and instantly knew why Sirius was calling him.

The snitch, and him, were being blown straight toward the Whomping Willow. James stopped his broom and, not bothering to catch the snitch, turned his broom around and flew as fast as he could back to the pitch. A few minutes later James saw the snitch! It had survived the horrible tree without so much as a scratch. James immediately chased after the snitch and caught it in minutes.

Four long hours later, practice was over and the seven quidditch players were heading up to the common room. Remus and Peter were sitting in front of the fire, doing homework of all things. They looked up as James and Sirius dropped down next to them.

“How was it?” asked Remus.

“The new guy is good.” replied Sirius, leaning against the chair and closing his eyes.

“Practice was brutal though.” James said. “Four hours long,” James continued with a groan.

“At least you don’t have practice tomorrow.” Remus said, trying to cheer up his two friends.

“Yes, at least,” murmured Sirius, staring into the depths of the fire. James got up and went to the dormitory to grab his homework. Sirius came into the room moments after James to gather up his books also. They both trooped down into the common room to rejoin Remus and Peter. The four silently finished their homework then went to bed.


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Chapter 5: Badger and the Griffin

A month passed with increased quidditch practice and homework. The first quidditch match of the season was only a week away. Of course, it was the week before the match that had James, Sirius, Remus and Peter worried. It was the second time that James, Sirius and Peter would accompany Remus during the full moon. Unfortunately, this full moon was on a Wednesday. There would be no sleeping in this time.

James, Sirius and Peter watched as Madam Pomfrey went back into the castle and soon they were standing in front of the nightmare tree. As previously planned, Peter turned into a rat and scurried around the branches that pounded the ground. Peter must have found the knot in the tree because it instantly stopped thrashing around and James and Sirius could warily approach it.

Sirius and James followed Peter’s squeaking all the way to the trapdoor and the building on the outskirts of Hogsmeade. James and Sirius changed the moment they stepped out of the trapdoor. James could see the full moon just starting to appear over the horizon. The trio quickly ran through the house, looking for Remus before he transformed into a werewolf. They did eventually find him upstairs. Remus was huddled in the fetal position, still human. Once he saw the three animals his face brightened instantly.

“Thanks guys, I owe you,” Remus muttered. Just then the room got bright with the full moon. Remus groaned as his bones visibly changed and elongated. James could tell that Remus was clenching his teeth hard so that he didn’t scream. Soon it was over and the werewolf was in Remus’ place, still in the fetal position, and panting slightly.

Peter ran off into a corner while James and Sirius took a stance against the curled werewolf. The werewolf looked up at them with something like understanding, much like Remus actually knew who they were. Instantly, that all changed, and the werewolf growled at them. Sirius’ fur rose as he growled back. James reared back, slamming back down onto the floorboards with a very solid thump. Remus stopped growling and stared at James with astonishment.

Sirius instantly pounced and had Remus pinned in second. James came up to the werewolf and snorted in his face, which made Remus recoil. After Sirius had growled, very low and threatening, just to make sure that Remus didn’t try anything, did he left him go. Sirius and James both stepped away from Remus cautiously, and when he didn’t attack, James grabbed Peter and the four animals were off.

This time they went into the Forbidden Forest. Even Remus and James’ attempts at getting past Hagrid seemed futile now. The four of them crawled through the pitch black forest, not sure of what to expect. Soon even the full moon was cut off from site as the trees grew denser. They didn’t come across anything. Eventually, the full moon disappeared behind the horizon. Remus changed back, right in the middle of the Forbidden Forest.

James, Peter and Sirius also changed. Remus had passed out after his grueling transformation, so James turned back into a stag while Peter and Sirius put Remus across his back. Peter clambered up Sirius’ back after he changed back, and James and Sirius started running out of the forest. The four miraculously made it to the dormitory without incident. Once inside the common room the three changed into humans again and carried Remus to his bed. After Remus was taken care of, James, Sirius and Peter got another two hours of sleep before getting up and starting their school day.



James and Sirius managed to catch up on sleep before the quidditch match, Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff. James woke up earlier than usual on Saturday to find that Sirius was already up. They both pulled on their red and orange quidditch robes silently, so they didn’t wake up Remus, Peter and Thomas. The two made their way down to the Great Hall where they saw the rest of the quidditch team.

“We still have a few hours until the match begins. We can either stay in here or go out and practice.” Remilda said. Everyone stayed where they were for a few minutes, trying to eat something before the game, then they all walked onto the field.

They all grabbed their brooms and flew into the air. Madam Hooch had the ball chest locked in her office incase someone decided to tamper with them. So they just practiced moves and maneuvers. James practiced very quick starts and stops until Remilda called them all to the changing room. Soon the sounds of hundreds of feet could be heard in the stands.

“Alright, Hufflepuff has gotten a lot better from last year, we have to be on our guard. Now lets go out there and win!” Remilda said. This speech was followed by a loud cheer and the team walked out onto the field.

Gryffindor and Hufflepuff shook hands and they were off. Kate flew off toward the goal posts while James flew above the playing level. Sirius instantly got possession of the quaffle and took off up the field. Remilda and Jason were flanking him to form an arrow shooting across the field. Beret hit a bludger right at a Hufflepuff trying to steal the quaffle from Sirius.

James was doing his best to look for the snitch and keep one eye glued to the Hufflepuff seeker for any sudden movements. Hours later it seemed, James still hadn’t even seen the snitch, but Gryffindor was up by fifty points. Jared had just smashed a bludger in the Hufflepuffs direction, which barely missed its target. Every chaser looked truly exhausted from the constant bludger attacks and dodging other chasers and beaters.

Sirius managed to intercept a pass and blasted up the field toward the Hufflepuff goal. Remilda and Jason were so surprised by the sudden change in directions that they didn’t manage to get to Sirius until it was too late. A Hufflepuff beater had obviously seen what was going to happen and chased down a bludger. James also was too late to notice the beater line up the bludger with Sirius and hit it with all his strength.

James had just found the snitch and was chasing it down at high speed. Sirius was so focused on the goal he didn’t see the bludger either. James saw Sirius get hit in the head with the speeding bludger just as his hand clamped around the struggling golden ball.

Sirius didn’t even make a sound as he was hit; he just fell off his broom. James instantly shoved the snitch in his pocket and raced Sirius to the ground. He was quite high up, much higher than where Sirius had fell from, but he urged his broom faster and faster, risking a collision with an ever increasing ground.

James caught Sirius two feet away from the ground. He was so close that he couldn’t so much as slow down before they hit the ground. James managed to drag Sirius with him as he rolled off the speeding broom and cushion his fall. The speed of the broom plus the collision with the ground caused the broom to lodge itself up to the bristles.

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Chapter 6: A Christmas to Remember

Sirius didn’t wake up for days. Madam Pomfrey said that he had serious head trauma. She told James, Remus and Peter to expect anything when he wakes up. Peter, James and Remus spent all of their free time with Sirius. Once Sirius did wake up, a week later, Madam Pomfrey said that he was lucky to not be in a coma.

“Why would I be in a coma?” asked Sirius. James, Remus and Peter looked at Sirius curiously.

“You got hit in the head with a bludger. You are lucky to be awake.” James answered.

“I got hit with a bludger?” asked Sirius, scratching his head, only to find that it was wrapped in gauze. “By the way, who are you guys?” James, Remus and Peter all shared very concerned looks.

“Why doesn’t he remember us?” asked Remus, turning towards Madam Pomfrey. She came over to Sirius, pulling out her wand.

“It will probably come back to him over time.” Madam Pomfrey said.

“Probably?” James repeated. “What if it never comes back to him? What is wrong with him in the first place? Why can’t he remember us?”

“He has amnesia.” said Madam Pomfrey. “The blow to the head was quite brutal on his brain.”

“What can we do to help?” asked Peter, looking at Sirius who was following the conversation with confusion written all over his face.

“Talk about things you have done. Help jog his memory a little.” Madam Pomfrey said and with that she turned and walked away.

“So who are you guys?” asked Sirius, unfazed by the conversation he just heard.

“I’m James Potter,” said James.

“Remus Lupin,” replied Remus.

“Peter Pettigrew,” answered Peter.

“Okay, and are you guys friends with me?” he asked.

“We’ve been friends for five years.” said Remus.

“You are on the quidditch team, obviously, what with the bludger to the head.” said James. “I’m on the team too. I tried to stop you from falling. I only managed to catch you a few feet from the ground.” he looked down.

“How old do you think you are?” asked Peter. James raised an eyebrow at him but waited for Sirius to answer.

“Eleven,” Sirius replied.

“What is the last thing you remember?” asked James.

“I remember getting my Hogwarts letter. My brother had come into the room and knocked me down to get something behind me. I thought that I hit my head pretty hard on the floor, but I don’t know what’s happening.” said Sirius.

Just then the hospital doors opened tentatively and in walked a Hufflepuff. He looked nervously around and, upon seeing Sirius surrounded by his friends, walked up to them.

“Hi Sirius, I’m really, really sorry about hitting you with that bludger. I didn’t think that I would hit you in the head; I was aiming for the quaffle. Well, I’m sorry.” the boy looked down and turned to walk back towards the door.

“You are the one that hit the bludger?” asked Peter. James smacked him up side the head.

“Yes,” the boy replied, turning to face them again. “And I am really sorry. Well, I’ll see you all around.” with that he turned around again and walked back out the doors.

Before any of them could say anything, Madam Pomfrey came back over to them, “You three should leave now, Sirius needs to rest.”

“Madam Pomfrey, Sirius thinks that he is eleven and it is right after he hit his head on the floor in his house.” James told her.

“Sometimes the memory gets mixed up. It takes other times that Sirius has hit his head really hard and goes from there.” Madam Pomfrey replied, shooing them from the hospital wing. James, Remus and Peter walked toward the doors.

“Bye guys!” Sirius called after them. They turned around and waved at him as Madam Pomfrey shut the door behind them.

“Ah man, we have to figure out a way to get Sirius’ memory back right away. He can’t just walk around not remembering the last five years of his life.” said Remus as the three of them were sitting in their dormitory.

“I know a good way to jog his memory.” replied James, lying back onto his bed.

Sirius was released from the hospital wing a week later. His memory was still lacking some information but Madam Pomfrey said that he was remembering things very quickly. Also that keeping him in the hospital wing wasn’t doing him any good. The first thing that the three tried on Sirius to get his memory back was turning into animagi. Sirius looked at his two friends changing back and forth between human and animagi.

“You try,” James said. Sirius concentrated and turned into a dog right before them.

He changed back and exclaimed loudly, “I remember! Remus, you’re a werewolf and we have gone twice now to accompany you during the full moon. All those long hours in the library and sneaking around to try and surprise Remus.” Sirius’ eyes were ablaze with his own excitement at remembering a good part of the last three years.



Sirius’ memory was still sketchy when Christmas came around. James, Remus and Peter were worried that he would always have fragments of his memory missing. At least he had remembered the three of them, and Lily, Kayla, Suzanne, Caitlyn and, especially Kate, who he had gone out with. Lily and her friends were really helpful in getting Sirius’ memory back. Now they were working on the little things, like when people’s birthdays were.

Finally, it was Christmas day. Sirius, as usual, got up early and decided to wake everyone else up. They all had a small pile of presents at the foot of their beds. Sirius immediately started to dig into his pile and was soon covered in wrapping paper. That was when something truly extraordinary happened, Sirius remembered everything.

“Hey Remus! Thanks for the quidditch boots! They go great with the quidditch gloves you gave me last year!” Sirius exclaimed. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Sirius. “What?” asked Sirius once he looked up and saw that everyone was staring at him.

“You remembered that I gave you quidditch glove from last year?” asked Remus.

“Yeah, how could I forget, they were the best.” replied Sirius.

“Maybe this means your amnesia is gone!” said James excitedly.

“What amnesia? You guys are acting a little weird.” replied Sirius, returning to his gift opening. James, Remus and Peter all exchanged relieved looks and also returned to their Christmas presents.

James had finally reached the last present at the bottom of the pile. It was from his parents. He tore it open and stared wide eyed at what was inside. Remus, Sirius and Peter looked over at James because they hadn’t heard anything from him in a while. They came over to look at what James got, all of them astonished.

“Wow, who gave it to you?” asked Remus.

“Those are rare mate,” Sirius also chimed in. Peter just stared in wonder.

“My parents gave it to me.” replied James in shock. He just now noticed that there was a letter inside and opened it. This was my dads, and my grandfather before him. I used this many times when I went to Hogwarts. I am sure you will be creative in what you will use it for too. Love Dad.

James set the note aside and lifted out his dad’s invisibility cloak. He stood up and swung it around his shoulders. Remus, Sirius and Peter all jumped back in shock as James’s body disappeared. James took off the cloak and he reappeared in the room.

“That is wicked.” Sirius said.

“I know exactly what we can use this for.” said James, smiling.


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Chapter 7: Invisible Prank

“Sirius, do you still think you’re eleven?” asked Remus.

“No, you guys have been asking me weird questions ever since Christmas. What’s the deal?” said Sirius.

“Do you remember the quidditch match, and how the bludger hit you in the head and knocked you out?” asked James.

“Yes, but what is up with guys telling me I had amnesia?” Sirius asked.

“Well the bludger to the head did cause you to have amnesia. But now I think you are completely back to normal. This includes not remembering having amnesia.” Remus said. It was the day after Christmas. The four boys were sitting in their dormitory. James had his broom on his lap and was wiping the dirt from the handle.

“You know what we haven’t done in a while?” asked James, staring at the invisibility cloak on top of his trunk.

“Why we haven’t pranked the good old Slytherins in a while.” replied Sirius, looking up at James. The two boys smiled, their train of thought on the same track.

“Hardly any of the Slytherins are still here.” Remus said, trying to talk them out of a prank.

“Only the important ones are here.” answered James. So it was right then and there that Sirius and James talked about all the amazing pranks they could pull on the Slytherins with the invisibility cloak.



A few days later James and Sirius thought up the perfect prank. Snivellus and Sirius’ brother Regulus were still at school. It was almost a week later that James and Sirius finally decided on when to pull the prank. It was just after dinner. James had brought his invisibility cloak to dinner and, when dinner was over and people were starting to leave the Great Hall, James and Sirius hid in the corridor next to the Great Hall, which leads to the kitchen.

The two reappeared, invisible to everyone, outside the Great Hall. They spotted Snape headed toward the dungeons and followed him. Snape led them down many corridors before coming to a painting. He muttered the password and the painting swung forward. James and Sirius were careful to stick close enough to Snape to get through the portrait hole but far enough away so that Snape didn’t know they were there.

The Slytherin common room looked a lot like the Gryffindor common room except that the main theme was green and silver instead of red and gold. James and Sirius left Snape and continued to one end of the common room they hoped was the boy’s dormitory. They were right. They walked down the hallway, pass dormitory doors with the year number on it. Finally they came to a door with a number 4 on it. James slowly opened the door, made sure that no one was in the room, then they both hurried in, locking the door behind them.

“Are you ready?” James whispered.

“I was born ready.” was Sirius’ whispered reply.

James took the cloak off both of them and they set to work. They had looked up special spells just for this prank. They both took out their wands and began setting traps for the fourth year Slytherins. It took quite an effort for both of them to learn how to make their spells invisible, but it was worth it. James was setting an invisible looped piece of rope on the floor, which he then attached to the ceiling. Anyone who stepped in the circle would be hoisted, feet first, into the air.

After setting many similar traps around the whole room, James and Sirius threw the cloak back on and headed down the corridor to the door marked with a number 5. Same as before, they checked that no one was in the room before locking the door behind them. Instead of setting small traps around the room, the boys decided on something more advanced.

They pulled off the cloak and poked around until they came across Snape’s potion book. They had both seen him scribbling down notes and what-not in the margins of the book, and they wanted to find out exactly what it was. Most of the writing was just added notes to potion instructions, but some were actual spells. James pointed out one that looked good.

“Nvrbl?” asked James, looking at Sirius.

“I think it stands for non-verbal.” replied Sirius, raising an eyebrow at James.

“Right, the spell is called Levicorpus. I wonder what it does.” James muttered aloud.

“I know where we can try it.” said Sirius, pulling out his wand. Without warning, Sirius turned on James and James was thrown into the air by his ankles, where he hung while Sirius roared with laughter.

“Great, now that you’ve had your laugh, will you get me down?” asked James, trying in vain to see things clearly since his glasses fell off.

Sirius bent down and picked up the potions book from the floor and rifled through the pages until he found the counter spell. With a quick wave of his wand, James crashed to the floor.

“Thanks,” muttered James, reaching out for his glasses before they set off to booby trap the room. James and Sirius decided they should use the spell Levicorpus. When someone walked into that area, they would be hoist up by their ankles.

“I think that’s good,” Sirius whispered just as they heard someone walking down the hall. James muttered a spell at the door to unlock as Sirius threw the cloak over both of them. Not too soon, because Snape had just walked in with some other fifth year Slytherins.

James and Sirius had the hardest time fighting their laughter as around the room Slytherins were being shot into the air by their ankles. Snape looked furious as he hung upside down, robes falling over his eyes to reveal graying boxers. James and Sirius rushed out the room for fear of being noticed by their barely contained laughter.

They made it to the portrait hole and climbed out where they threw off the cloak, laughing harder than ever. They ran all the way up to Gryffindor tower where they told Remus and Peter about all the spells they placed. It was well past midnight by the time James and Sirius returned to normal from their laughing fit. James put the cloak back in his trunk and then laid down, trying to get some sleep.

The next morning, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were having breakfast in the Great Hall when almost ten Slytherins walked in, each of them a different color. The four boys snorted into their food as the few people that were still at Hogwarts roared with laughter at the sight. A few people from different houses actually looked over at the four of them, as if they knew they were a part of it.


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I am so sorry! It's been nearly a month since I last posted. I've been a little busy with finals and everything, but now that schools out, everything is back to normal. Anyways, I hope you like chapter 8!


Chapter 8: A New Position

A few months had passed and the next quidditch match was coming up. Remilda absolutely refused to let Sirius play in the next match, much to his annoyance. Instead, she put James as chaser. The seeker was the only position with a back up player. So James filled in as chaser as Bryson filled in for seeker. For the next two weeks James practiced the moves he had seen Sirius, Remilda and Jason practice all year. Bryson also had to learn some of James’ tricks before the match.

“How did it go?” asked Remus as James and Sirius dropped into a chair.

“Horrible!” replied Sirius. Remus and James looked at him. “I can’t even play! What a waste of time!”

“It went okay,” James answered as if Sirius hadn’t said anything. “Remilda was showing me a cool trick where you stand on your broom; jump off and, with the quaffle in your hands, jump through one of the goal posts.” James said with a smile. Sirius growled.

“I told her about that move!” he slumped farther in his chair as Peter walked up.

“How did it go?” Peter asked. Sirius snarled out an incoherent sentence to Peter and stormed up to the boy’s dormitory. “Did I say something wrong?” asked Peter, startled by Sirius’ outburst.

“Nope,” James said, leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes.



Before James knew it, and before Sirius wanted to accept it, the final quidditch match was upon them. It was Slytherin against Gryffindor. They were the only undefeated team at Hogwarts. Sirius, Remus and Peter all came down to breakfast early with James to wish him luck. Once the rest of the team arrived, they headed out to the field. It was strange for James to not to have Sirius with him. He soon got over it and tried to put his mind in the game. As soon as everyone was changed Remilda led them out onto the field where James noticed the immense noise the crowd was making.

James actually saw Remus, Sirius and Peter in the crowd; they were near Lily and her friends. Sirius looked mad at being stuck in the stands instead of down on the field with the rest of the team. James only thought about it for a few seconds before pulling his head back into the game. Remilda shook hands with the Slytherin captain and Madam Hooch blew the whistle, and the game was on.

James actually had to stop himself from flying above the game like he is used to. Slytherin had the quaffle, and Remilda was behind them. James flew up to them fast. Remilda saw James on one side of the Slytherin so she got on the other. James and Remilda collided with the Slytherin so he was in the middle of their sandwich. Jason noticed this and got under the Slytherin and punched the quaffle out of his hands. James flew up in the air and caught the quaffle, turned around, and took off in the opposite direction.

Remilda and Jason spread out on either side of James as he blasted up the field. The two beaters, Jared and Beret, did all they could to make sure that no Slytherin got too close to James. When he was within range, James heaved the quaffle at the far right goal post with all the strength. The keeper raced the ball to the goal post and managed to block it by sticking out his leg and kicking the ball away. The quaffle dropped right into the hands of another Slytherin, and the race back up the field was under way.

James never realized how dizzy you can get playing chaser. The constant back and forth, up and down the field, got really tiring. After a few hours, the score was 30-10 to Slytherin. It was close. Both Gryffindor and Slytherin had taken losses. Gryffindor lost their keeper and one beater while Slytherin lost a chaser and beater.

James turned around and saw a Slytherin with the quaffle charging up the field. James quickly calculated if his plan was going to work, then, without and further hesitation, put his plan in action. The Slytherin was nearly upon him when James pushed down on the handle of his broom, causing James, and the broom, to spin in the tight summersault. The Slytherin had no idea was hit him. One moment he was flying up the field, the next moment a broom tail had smacked the quaffle out of his hands.

Once James heard the satisfying sound of his broom hitting the quaffle he righted himself to see where it went. He spotted the quaffle dropping fast toward the ground and raced to catch it. He soon caught up and trapped the quaffle under his left arm. James flew fast and close to the ground. Once he was behind the goal post he soared back up to the playing field and threw the quaffle at Jason. He caught it, still flying fast at the keeper. Jason faked right and slammed the quaffle through the center ring. The crowd went wild.

James, Jason and Remilda kept up the fast game. All their plays were sharp and fast. They didn’t let the Slytherins have a break. A few hours later the score was 100-50 to Gryffindor. At one point James actually flew by Bryson and told him to find the snitch fast. A few minutes later James saw Bryson diving away from the playing field to chase down a small hint of gold. The game was over in a matter of minutes. Gryffindor had won the Quidditch Cup!



“I don’t know how you guys won without me.” Sirius said to James as the four boys sat in the common room. James shoved Sirius a little too hard and Sirius fell out of his chair. Remus, Peter and James all started laughing loudly, drawing attention from the whole room. Sirius picked himself up off the floor and back into the chair.

“Hilarious,” muttered Sirius under his breath at James. Just then the portrait hole opened and Lily, Kate, Caitlyn, Kayla and Suzanna walked in. James grinned and winked at his friends and jumped out of his chair over to Lily.

“Hey Lils,” James said cheerfully. Lily and her friends stopped walking to look at James.

“Potter,” Lily commented back, James kept talk as if he hadn’t heard the coldness in her voice.

“Want to go out with me?” asked James, his hand flying to his hair to rumple it up. Lily raised an eyebrow at him.

“What do you think?” asked Lily.

“I think that even though you pretend to be all mad at me, inside, you want me.” replied James with a charming smile.

Lily snorted as she replied, “In your dreams Potter,”

“All the time Evans,” Lily looked at James with disgust and brushed pass him, her friends following behind. James walked back over to his friends and sat down.

“I think I’m making progress, don’t you?” Remus slapped a hand to his forehead and shook his head.


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Chapter 9: Nicknames to Remember

As perfect timing would have it, a full moon was scheduled to appear almost a week before the fifth years were supposed to take the OWLs. Remus was a mess. He was trying to study really hard, preparing for next week when he would be so worn out that studying wouldn’t even cross his mind. Just to make him feel better, James, Sirius and Peter studied with him.

The moon was supposed to be full on Sunday, which was actually a good thing. James, Sirius and Peter could sleep all day on Sunday, stay up that night with Remus and probably not be too tired to go to class the next day. Even though Remus was dreading Sunday, Sirius wasn’t. James had to smack him too many times to count because he would catch Sirius pulling out a calendar and marking off how many days were left.

“What! I need something exciting to look forward to.” Sirius replied after James smacked him the first time. James just shook his head and looked back down at his textbook, barely reading the words.



All too soon for Remus, and not fast enough for Sirius, Sunday was here. All four boys slept in until almost noon Sunday morning. They went down to the Great Hall for lunch then came back to their dormitory to sleep some more. Remus left the castle at five o’clock with Madam Pomfrey. James, Sirius and Peter followed behind them under James’s invisibility cloak. Once Madam Pomfrey left, Peter turned into a rat and scampered over to the thrashing tree. Once the violent tree froze, James and Sirius slid down into the narrow tunnel after Peter and made their way up to the abandon house.

They found Remus huddled in a corner in one of the most used bedrooms. Since the sun wasn’t due to set until after seven, the four boys hung out in the shack for a while. James stuffed the cloak in his backpack and shoved it in the corner of one of the smaller rooms where it couldn’t accidentally be shredded. James came back to join his three friends on the floor.

“You guys don’t have to do this.” Remus said quietly.

“Of course we do!” Sirius scoffed. Remus looked up at James, Sirius and Peter’s smiling faces and couldn’t help but reciprocate.

“Fine,” Remus said, realizing that there was no way he could talk them out of it. James smiled to himself at a brilliant idea he had. Sirius saw this and gave him a sideways look.

“What are you thinking James?” asked Remus. James looked at Remus as his smile grew bigger.

“Moony,” James replied. Remus stiffened and shot a startled look out of the window, the sun was close to the horizon now, about to set.

“What are you talking about James?” asked Remus, relaxing a bit.

“Moony, it’s a perfect name!” James said. All three gave James a confused look. “I’ve been thinking that we should have nicknames! What’s the point of being an animagi, and a werewolf if you can’t talk about it?”

“Brilliant!” Sirius shouted. James smiled. “Remus should be Moony, obviously.” Sirius continued, waving his hand in the direction of the window and the slowly setting sun.

“Peter should be... Wormtail.” James jumped in. Peter raised an eyebrow, transformed into a rat and picked up his bald tail to examine it. Everyone laughed. “Sirius, I have the perfect name! Padfoot,” James continued just as Peter joined them again in human form.

“Well then James, you should be... Prongs! Seriously mate, you could kill someone with those antlers.” Sirius said. All the boys laughed. James shot a glance at the window to see that the sun had completely set.

“Now the real fun begins.” Remus said softly, following James’s gaze out the window. A few minutes later, a soft ghostly white light leaked in through a window on the opposite wall. Remus stiffened as his gruesome transformation began to take place.

The three boys stood up and backed away from Remus to take a defensive stance as they watched Remus trying not to scream in agony. James, Sirius and Peter transformed also, just so that they didn’t have any chance of being bitten. The room was bathed in the ghostly light by the time Remus had fully transformed into a werewolf. He stood there in the corner, looking out at all of them. Nobody moved for a long time.

Remus pounced. James was tensed and ready for the attack. He leaped up and tackled Remus mid jump. The two animals hit the wall, following James’s momentum. Remus hit his head, hard, and sat at the base of the wall, trying to refocus on the three animals before him. Sirius didn’t give him that chance. He pounced and bit into Remus’s arm, dragging him along the floor. Peter squeaked and squealed in terror.

Remus got his bearings back quickly. He was sitting up in a corner, looking at James and Sirius stalk closer to him. Sirius was growling, pulling his lips back from his teeth. James was pawing the floor, ready to charge. Remus knew defeat when he saw it. James and Sirius noticed Remus’s subdued behavior towards them and recognized it as a sign of a truce. Peter joined the group and climbed into James’s back, and the four animals were off.

That evening didn’t bring about any knew discovers, besides the nicknames. The moon began to set and the three boys had to watch as Remus gruelingly transformed into himself. As soon as Remus was in human form, laying on the floor of the shack, did James, Sirius and Peter turn back into themselves.

“I’m so sorry,” Remus groaned, looking up at the long gashes all over James and Sirius. In response, the two boys’ helped Remus to his feet, his arm around each of their shoulders.

“Don’t be sorry Remus, we want to be here.” replied James as him and Sirius walked slowly back up to the castle with Remus between them.

“I’m sorry,” Remus replied.

“What did I just say?!” James said, smiling slightly at Remus, who smiled back.

In no time the four boys made it up to their dorm and collapsed on their beds. They managed to get almost three more hours of sleep before school started. All the staff members knew about Remus’s “condition”, so he didn’t have to attend any classes that day. James, Sirius, Peter and Thomas left the dorm quietly, trying not to wake Remus.

The day passed slowly, but the three boys found themselves in their dorm, with Remus, after dinner. James pulled out the Marauder’s Map from his truck and placed it on his bed. The other three gathered around him, staring at the map. Finally, Sirius leaned into James.

“What are we doing?” he whispered to James.

“Watch,”

James pulled out his wand and opened up a book he had picked up at the library earlier. He waved his wand over the parchment and in no time, nothing changed. Sirius raised an eyebrow at James.

“What did you do?” he asked.

“When we do eventually add moving people to the map, even if they have an invisibility cloak, or they are an animagi, the map will pick them up.” James smiled then flipped his wand over, and using it like a pen, wrote their nicknames at the top of the parchment. Now, the heading read, "Misers Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, are proud to present, the Marauders Map.” Sirius, Remus and Peter stared at the paper then back at James.

“Brilliant!” Remus finally exclaimed. “I never even thought of that, Prongs.” he continued with a smile.

“We should know be known as the Marauders.” Peter chimed in. James smiled at Peter.

“The Marauders it is.”


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Chapter 10: Start of a Great Summer

The Marauders had just finished their Transfiguration exam and walked out on the grounds. They walked up to the beech tree near the lake and sat down under it. James leaned against the tree and dug his hand into his pocket. He pulled out the golden snitch and began to let it fly away then catch it again before it got too far away. Peter was watching James with amazement. He would even clap when James made an especially hard catch. Sirius looked up at James.

“Put that away will you? Peter looks like he’s about to wet himself.” he said. James caught the snitch and stuffed it in his pocket. Peter looked at his feet, embarrassed.

James looked up and across the grounds. He spotted Snape and nudged Sirius, nodding towards Snape. Sirius smiled at him and stood up. Remus pulled his nose out of his textbook long enough to see what was happening. James and Sirius were walking toward Snape. He was so engrossed in a piece of paper that he didn’t even notice Sirius and James until he heard them talking.

“Hey Prongs, I think we should teach Snivellus here how to wash that dead animal on his head he calls hair.” Sirius said obnoxiously. James snickered slightly as they drew closer. Snape looked up at James and Sirius and put his paper aside, standing up and pulling his wand out at the same time.

“Ah, ah, ah,” James scolded, whipping out his own wand and sending Snape’s flying across the grounds. James flicked his wand upward and Snape was flung into the air by his ankles. Snape’s eyes were on fire. Sirius and James closed in on Snape as a crowd of people started to gather.

“Stop it!” shouted Lily, running into the circle. “Let him down right now!”

“I don’t need any help from you, mudblood.” Snape snarled upside down. James broke concentration and Snape feel to the ground. James picked him up by the front of his robes.

James got in his face and snarled, “Apologize, now!”

“I don’t want him to apologize if you make him.” Lily said coldly.

“But Lily, he called you a, well a, you heard him!” James stumbled.

“So what? I won’t have anyone be forced into apologizing by the likes of you Potter.” Lily seethed. James backed away from Snape and Lily. Lily stormed away from the group and Snape picked up his wand from where it had fallen. He pointed it at James, luckily Sirius saw this.

“Oh no you don’t!” Sirius yelled, flicking his wand at Snape. Foam instantly started spewing from Snape’s mouth. “Maybe that will teach you not to use disgusting words like that.” Sirius and James walked away from Snape and back towards Remus and Peter, who hadn’t moved from under the tree. The two boys picked up their bags and headed back into the castle, Remus and Peter right behind them.



The rest of the exams went fairly smoothly after that. Soon school was over and the Marauders were packing their trunks. The train was almost due to come into Hogsmeade station. Finally, almost an hour before boarding the train, the boys were done packing and in the Great Hall for their last breakfast at Hogwarts in two months. All too soon the boys were boarding the Hogwarts Express and were on their way home.

James offered everyone to stay over at his house. Sirius had responded by saying that his parent wanted him home, again. Remus still didn’t want to be around anyone while he’s a werewolf, and Peter was going on a trip with his parents.

“I guess it’s just me and Evans all summer.” James laughed.

Remus scowled. “Don’t do anything stupid.”

“When have I ever done anything stupid?” asked James, shocked. Remus raised an eyebrow but refrained from answering. James grinned and pulled out a deck of cards.

The boys played exploding snap the rest of the ride back to Kings Cross Station. Too soon, the train was pulling into the station and students were pouring out of the train and onto the platform. Sirius was next to the last person off the train. The four boys said good bye as they followed their parents off the platform.



A few days later, James was sitting on his bed reading a quiddich book when he heard a knock on the front door. Since his parents weren’t home James ran downstairs and skidded to a stop in front of the door. He yanked it open to see Sirius standing there.

“Hey Prongs, can I come in?” asked Sirius. He had a suitcase in each hand.

“Sure,” James stepped aside and Sirius walked pass him.

“What happened?” asked James.

“I couldn’t take it anymore!” Sirius burst out. “I can’t take living with my parents and brother anymore.”

“Sirius, what happened?”

“I ran away. Can I stay here? I can camp outside, I’ll pay for anything, I just can’t go back to that house! Please, don’t make me go back.” Sirius looked so sad and desperate.

“I will have to talk to my parents, but I’m sure they will understand and let you stay.” James smiled. Sirius grinned back.

“Thanks Prongs.” Sirius picked up his bags and followed James upstairs.

“Great! Now I actually have something to do this summer.” James said opening a guest bedroom across from his own.

“I can think of so many things we can do.” Sirius replied with a sly grin, he changed into a dog and bounded out of the room.


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