Author's Notes: Thanks LilyBilly for my one lonely review, this chapter is dedicated to you :)

Disclaimer: I do not now, nor have I ever owned Harry Potter.

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The next morning came all to soon for Lily. She got out of bed after what felt like mere seconds of restless sleep and walked into her bathroom. The sleep immediately faded when she first saw the sight before her. Her new bathroom was amazing, the minature pool that was sunk into the middle of the marble tiled floor was even larger than that of the prefect's bathroom, all the knobs rounding each side where made of solid gold as far as Lily could tell and the counter top had more than enough space for her to keep all of her bathroom belongings. She almost cried out of joy when she realised this was all for her.

''Well I've found my new favorite spot to read,'' Lily thought to herself glancing at the tub. She got undressed and grabbed a fluffy white towel from the stack in the furthest left corner of the countertop. She placed the towel by the edge of the pool and began to turn different knobs trying to decide which scent she most prefered. She finally came upon a knob that fit her perfectly, It was gold of course with lillies etched into the metal, tiny emeralds as the centers of the flowers, and it smelt of that as well, lillies. She finally filled the pool up to the brim with the suds from that faucet, which took a surprisingly small amount of time seeing as the pool was so large, and she lowered into her bath. She sighed in complete content and started to bath herself. After what was, in Lily's mind, way to short of a bath she hopped out wrapping herself in a towel and her hair in another and went to brush her teeth. Once she had finished with this she walked back into her bedroom still clutching her towel. She began to go through her trunk to find a pair of her new robes.

"Hey Lily, are we supposed to hand out the... oh Merlin." Lily squeaked and grabbed at a pair of robes and flung them around herself then turned to see an extremely shocked looking James standing in her doorway. She couldn't decide if she was angry or embarrassed so she took the uncomfortable silence as an opportunity to turn red and run back into the bathroom. She peeked back around the door to see a very redfaced James walk out of the room and shut the door. Lily took no time getting ready after that, deciding on a simple pair of jeans and a light lavender colored sweater to wear under her robes. She rubbed her hair potion in rather quickly and dried her hair into perfect curls with her wand as she packed her school bag. When she finally decided she was ready for the day she walked out into the common room to see a very flustered looking James sitting on the couch apparently waiting for her.

"So-Sorry about that, I suppose we'll have to get used to knocking around here huh?" James stammered in utter embarrassment. "Walk you to breakfast?"

Lily took this as a sincere apology and smiled, nodding her head yes. The two walked up to the Great Hall making small conversation all the way, both still thinking of the incident. Ty called Lily over to her once they walked into the Great Hall so with a feeble smile they both laughed nervously and made a silent agreement to keep their embarrasing story to themselves. They made their way to where Ty and Remus where of course together and Sirius was wolfing down toast like a starving pig.

"Looks like we've got Double Transfiguration first thing this morning with the Ravenclaws." Ty said looking over her time table. "After that is a free period, lunch then Double Potions with the Slytherins."

"That really isn't to bad of a Monday, just two subjects." Remus said looking over her shoulder."

"Yeah, but they're both Double and we've got Potions with the Slytherins." Sirius whined.

"Yes but we've got a free period and lunch inbetween, and then another free period after Potions. Only the 7th years will have the common room for that period, do you realise how much work we'll be able to get done with it being only the nine of us?" Remus stated rather matter-of-factly.

"Merlin Moony, are you actually under the impression that Padfoot here will do any work?" James laughed.

"Hey I resent that remark Prongs, I do some work, I just happen to be better at convincing others to do it for me!" Sirius replied trying to act offended.

"Yeah okay Padfoot, such as the time you angered dear Lily over here to the extend that she made your ears fall off?" James said with a grin.

"Remus, you're always welcome to study in James' and my common room if you'd like." Lily said, choosing to ignore Sirius and James.

"Well thank you Lily, at least some people are concerned with their NEWT scores." Remus said glaring at Sirius.

The group finished eating and then set out towards the Transfiguration room. All but Peter who went in the opposite direction towards Muggle Studies.

"I take it Pete didn't make it into Transfiguration?" Lily asked.

"Something like that." James chuckled.

Lily and Ty sat in the middle of the room and James and Remus sat behind them, leaving Sirius to find a seat as close to Kat as he possibly could, which was surprisingly right beside her,

"This seat taken?" he winked at her before sitting down.

"Well I would have said no," she laughed "but apparently some handsome gentleman has decided otherwise.

McGonagall walked into the room and the door magicly shut behind her. "Put away everything but your wands class. This year class will be ran a little differently, we'll be working mostly with our wands in class which will mean you'll have reading as homework just about every week, but you'll be getting in lots and lots of practice, I hope to be doing wandless Transfiguration after Christmas break which means we've got a lot to do. Some of you will excede this year, others of you will not... It is my hope that by the time graduation rolls around each and every one of you can turn a teacup into a hampster without wands or words, that however comes in rare and small numbers, but we'd like to try wouldn't we?"

She looked around the room as if expecting someone to say something then waved her wand at a stack of teacups and they in turn passed themselves out to each student.

"Now today is just to see what you can do, I doubt many of you will be able to finish this completely but you've all studied nonverbal charms, it's the same thing, I want you all to attempt to turn this teacup into a hamster by the end of class, wands are allowed, words are not. Whoever succeeds first, or comes closest to will be rewarded with no homework for this week." And with that McGonagall went to her desk to file papers.

By the end of class nobody was surprised to see James Potter playing with a hamster in the back of the classroom which warrented a small smile from Professor McGonagall.

"Goodness James, you made Minnie McG smile! I thought that was impossible!" Sirius exclaimed in awe as they walked out of the room.

"I heard that Mr. Black!" McGonagall called through the doorway.

"Sorry Minnie!" Sirius chuckled earning a shouted "five points Mr. Black!" from the classroom.

"What do you all say to going down to the lake for our free period?" Lily asked. "We might as well finish this reading assignment so as to avoid homework tonight." Everyone else agreed and so they set out to find a spot of shade.

James of course didn't have anything to do so instead he played with his Snitch, letting it go and catching it just in time. Sirius after a while put down his assignment, nolonger able to concentrate and snatched the Snitch before James noticed him approaching, which in turn caused an all out game of capture the Snitch. Remus soon joined in leaving Ty Lily and Kat under the tree.

"Tyler Ann Halifax don't you dare!" Lily began seeing Ty's look of longing.

"Sorry Lily, I can't help it!" Tyler said abandoning her work.

"Well Lily, might as well join in the fun." Katherine said getting up as well.

"Not you too Kat!" Lily groaned. "Fine but I'm staying here and doing my work like somebody with some sence."

Lily continued reading, stealing glances at the group whenever they weren't looking. 'Well..'. she thought to herself, 'they are having a lot of fun it looks like.'

"Here James, keep away from the girls!" Sirius said throwing him the Snitch. But it was intercepted, not by Ty, not by Kat, no even by Remus, amazingly the Snitch was now in the delicate hand of Lily Evans. Sirius looked flabbergasted. Finally he broke into a grin and cheered. "Lily's not doing homework!" he chanted in a sing-song voice.

"Watch it Black or I might turn YOU into a hamster!" Lily threatened tossing the Snitch to Kat. Everyone laughed and the game continued.

After another twenty or so minutes of their fun the group retreated to the Great Hall for lunch all laughing and talking as if nothing could harm them. Lily smiled to herself glad, for once, to have made friends with the Mauraders.

"You know boys the Slytherins are looking rather ancy, I expect they're wondering why nothing has happened to them yet, we've been back at school for almost 24 hours now." Kat said with a gleam of mischeif in her eye.

"Well young lady, stick around for dessert and you'll be sure to get a show." James chuckled before helping himself to the mashed potatoes.

"Speaking of, when are you planning on holding Quidditch tryouts? I was thinking since there will be two spots for Chaser open." Kat trailed off.

"Well do you think you can keep up with old Sirius over here?" James gestured at Sirius who was wolfing down an entire chicken.

"I'll fly circles around him and cause him to vomit." Kat laughed.

"Well if your flying is as good as your attitude you've got the job." James grinned.

"First Hogsmeade trip is in two weeks." Remus annouced. "We should all go together."

"That would be lovely Remus," Lily smiled. "I might even leave my book at Hogwarts!"

"You're damn skippy you will," James threatened. "Because I'm not going to lead you around the streets if you do, I'm going to let you read and crash into every inanimate object in your path."

Everyone laughed at this and before Lily could retort there was a loud squaking sound from the Slytherin table. Many of them had sprouted pink feathers and where clucking like hens. Pecking the ground with their noses and flapping their arms like wings, a few where even bobbing their heads.

"Black! Lupin! Pettigrew! Potter!" McGonagall yelled from the staff table.

"THROPHY ROOM!" James yelled in a oddly high pitched and very terrible impersonation of their Professor.

"SEVEN O'CLOCK!" Sirius added in a squeaky falsetto tone, hands on his hips.

"AND I BETTER BE ABLE TO SEE MYSELF!" Remus finished in his surprisingly perfect impression of McGonagall.

At this Peter pressed his lips together and emitted a small "ahem!" in a very McGonagall-like way jumping up from his seat crossing his arms and tapping his foot causing the entire hall to erupt into giggles.

McGonagall looked as if she wanted to laugh and be angry at the same time.

"Well at least they've stopped trying to avoid punishment." She muttered causing her surrounding teachers to chuckle.

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Author's Notes: Well I'm hoping you liked it, still just fun stuff, I'm test driving my characters basically. I'll have another update soon, but I'm also working on another fanfic. Be sure to check that one out.