Hey there - I'm Jess and this is my 50 Ficklets on Lily and Lupin All the magical things in my 50 are property of JK Rowling.






James and Sirius were messing about with Severus… again, walking behind him. Severus was completely unaware that his backpack was hanging right open.
“Accio Snivellus,” James said.
“Accio black ink,” Sirius said, and the black ink pot from Severus’ bag came out. He opened it and pocketed the lid, then fastened his pace to put it in his bag. They tried to suppress their laughter.
“Accio History of Magic homework,” James said, and a roll of parchment came out of his bag and into James’ hands.
Lily suddenly appeared and snatched it from James’ hands and smacked it over his face, then yelled “Severus!” and he stopped walking. He turned around smiling at the voice, but glowered at the two mischievous marauders. “Here you go,” she said, handing it back to him.
“Thanks Lily,” he said.
Lily turned around and noticed that following several paces behind them was Remus Lupin. She felt her face burn with anger as she stood in front of him, blocking his exit. “Remus, what kind of Prefect are you if you can’t control the air heads over there. I’m so disappointed in Professor Dumbledore,” she said, and turned away to join Severus.

“Hmm I think I had better put this book away,” Remus said, pulling a book from between James and Sirius. It was entitled “Darkest spells for the Darkest of Wizards,” and they were looking at the spell ‘Avada Kedavra.’
“Oh Remus, you’re no fun!” Sirius said.
“Yeah, is it that time of the moon again?” James said, and they both howled in laughter.
Remus gave them both hurt looks, and left the common room to go to the library. He spotted Lily, and walked over to her. She was alone, writing an assignment, and Remus sat down next to her.
“Oh, hi Remus,” she said. “Look, I’m sorry about before. Those two just don’t know when they are crossing the line.”
He looked defeated, “Don’t be sorry. Look at this,” he said handing the book to her, on the page the guys had it open.
Lily gasped, “What do I want to look at that for? Get it away,” she said, glancing around her. She wanted absolutely nothing to do with any dark spells.
He shut it loudly and said, “Lily, James and Sirius were looking at it, trying to work out how they could cast it.”

Lily, Remus, Sirius and Peter were sitting in the Gryffindor stall watching the Quidditch game between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. It was freezing outside, and Sirius was trying to put his arm around Lily to put James off his match, but she kept pinching him. And she pinched hard.
“Sirius, stop it. I mean it!” Lily said.
“Oh, come on Evans, I just want to keep you nice and warm,” Sirius said with his low voice. If she didn’t pretend to hate him so much, she could have let him put his arm around her. But she didn’t want to cause trouble between she and James. Wait – she didn’t what? That thought had surprised Lily, and she grasped the bench between she and Remus.
“Everything okay, Lily?” he asked, looking over her at Sirius.
“I didn’t do anything!” He said.
“No I’m… Oh gosh JAMES!” she yelled, stepping to the railing of the stall. “He’s going to crash!” she said loudly. Sirius roared out laughing, patting her on the back, when they watched James stop as soon as he had the snitch.
“Evans, don’t get your wand dirty, he used a Braking Charm.”

Lily was there, sitting on the stairs of a corridor. She heard voices as a small crowd approached the corridor, but they didn’t come in. She saw the outline of James, Sirius, Remus and Peter, but decided she would stay behind. James hadn’t stopped asking her out whenever he saw her, and she couldn’t think of any other ways to turn him down.
She heard them start taunting someone, and she rolled her eyes. Why couldn’t they just leave people alone? And why does Remus always turn a blind eye to it? She thought. She stood up to go back to the common room when she heard an explosion and a few screams of terror. Running as fast as she could, she turned the corner and saw the look on the four boys faces. They had a look of terror on their face.
“What happened?” she said, approaching. She scanned the area and saw Severus laying on the ground. He looked shocked as he frantically looked around.
“How DARE you!” she yelled at the boys, helping Severus up. “I’m taking you to the hospital wing,” she said to Severus. Remus ran after her, determined to tell the Heamaster.

“Remus, what are you doing?” Lily asked, as he pulled her into a broom cupboard.
“Colloportus” he said, pointing his wand at the lock.
“Remus, what is it? Why are you locking me in the cupboard with you?” she asked, slightly annoyed but slightly worried.
He looked quite upset. “I’m so sorry Lily, I need to tell you something,” he said.
Lily reached out and rubbed his shoulder, “Remus, what is it? Are you okay?”
“No I’m not. I’m sure you heard about the other night.”
“Oh… Severus almost being killed? James saving his life?”
“Yes, that. Look, it’s me – it’s my fault,” he said and cried. Lily embraced him in a hug, soothing him.
He pulled away after a moment, “Lily I’m a werewolf. James, Sirius and Peter all… they are animagus’ and transform with me to keep an eye on me, and make it more enjoyable. Sirius played the prank on Sniv-Severus before I transformed. I think they wanted him to have a fright, and James didn’t know, but when he found out he went looking for Sni-Severus and saved his life,” he said.
“Woah,” Lily said, backing into the corner where a crate sat.

“Oh, watch out Prongs,” Sirius said, kicking James under the table.
James looked up to see Lily storming towards them, furiously. They were sitting in the common room at the study tables, and he has stupidly sat in the corner. There was no escape. He couldn’t figure out what it was…
“Hey Evans, looking beau-” he started.
“SHUT UP POTTER! You fat head git. What in Merlin’s name were you doing with that dark arts book? Why on EARTH would you want to learn the DEATH CURSE FOR?” she screamed.
James looked at Sirius, who winked at him.
“Black, don’t you even START with the jokes, I’m reporting you too!” she yelled. “Now answer me.”
“We weren’t looking at the Death Curse, we only wanted to know how to perform Crucio to expand the trouble we cause Sniv-” he started, before realising what he had just said. Sirius’ face fell. So did Lily’s.
“You… you… you wanted to learn how to perform the Cruciatus curse on Severus?” she said, tears welling in her eyes.
She turned around and ran into Remus. Grabbing his arm, she pulled him out the door with her.
“Where are we going?”
“Professor Dumbledore.”

“We could always use the Confundus charm on them. That way we can confuse them into being friends, or at least acquaintances,” Remus said with a shrug.
“Bad idea Moony, that would make us just as bad as them,” Lily said.
Remus lat out a small laugh, “You called me Moony!” he said.
She smiled at him, “I overheard a conversation you were having with the other 3 brainless nitwits, and they called you Moony. I assume it’s because of your fury little problem?” she asked.
That made him laugh, “I’ve never heard anyone refer to it as my fury little problem. Yeah they call me Moony,” he said.
“What do you call the others? I don’t remember… did I hear wormy or something?” she asked.
“Wormtail, that’s Peter. He is a rat, and Prongs for James as he is a Stag, and Padfoot for Sirius because he’s a -”
“A Dog!” she said. “Now Moony, you heard Professor Dumbledore, he thinks… he is sure we can come up with a way to make them all civil enough around each other so they don’t whip their wands out at every sight,” she sighed.
“Confundus,” Remus said again. “I’ll do it.”

Lily and Remus were walking together, quite a distance away from James and Sirius. They were walking out near the lake, and Lily saw Severus walking near them.
“Oh no Remus, there’s Severus,” she said pointing to him.
Remus looked over to James and Sirius who were getting close to spotting Severus. He pulled out his wand and pointed it at both boys saying “Diffindo.” Their backpacks broke open and the contents spilled to the ground.
Lily let out a sigh of relief, thinking it would be a great diversion for Severus to get by – but no. He walked past them and snickered at them. Lily cried out as James managed to hang him upside down. Lily ran over, yelling at James to let him down.
James, still scared of Lily from earlier, let him drop to the ground – onto her head. She looked at Remus to do what they had discussed; “Confundus,” he said, pointing it at Severus. The confusion of Severus as Lily helped him up, most likely stopped him from retaliating and being upside-down again. Lily walked him back down towards the Slytherin common room, telling the rather confused Severus that he tripped over, bumping his head.

“So how are you going to get there?” Remus asked.
“Apparating, of course,” James replied, pulling his fingers through his hair.
Remus looked at him confused, “But you…”
“You don’t have a licence, Toe-rag,” Lily said. She had been reading a book in the common room when the 4 boys had rudely interrupted her space.
“Oh Evans, who said I need a licence?” James said, looking nice and happy to have her attention. “Do you like a bad boy?”
She scoffed at him.
“So, how long will you be gone?” Peter asked nervously.
“Just 3 weeks. Sirius and I will be back in time to get our school supplies for our 6th year. Hey Evans, want to have an interesting 6th year with me?” he asked.
“Remus, could you tell the loud-mouth gits to shut it? I’m trying to read here,” she said, looking at him. He looked tired, and she knew it must have been that time of the moon. “Wait, Remus maybe you had better go to bed, you look exhausted,” she said.
He nodded and got up, looking at the rest of the boys, “Maybe you had all better go to bed as well.”

Remus and Lily were sitting in their Prefect compartment on the Hogwarts Express, talking about what they would do during the summer, when a knock at the door startled them.
Remus let out a small laugh, and Lily rolled her eyes. “Potter, this is the prefects compartment. You are not a prefect.”
He walked in anyway. “Here Evans, I just wanted to give you this,” he said handing her a box. He blew her a kiss, which made her twitch, and walked out.
“What is it?” Remus asked.
Lily untied the bow, and took off the lid. It was a candy heart which was the size of a toaster. Remus let out a laugh, “I thought I heard him practicing Engorgio last night. He must have thought we were all sleeping.”
Lily put the lid back on and put the box in the overhead compartment. “Hey, Lily… how come you won’t go out with him?” Remus asked.
“He’s a bully, he has a big head, and he repulses me,” she said.
“No, I’m not buying it,” Remus replied. “After 5 years of him pursuing you I don’t understand how you haven’t gone on one date with him.”
Lily looked away.

“Bye Lily, darling,” her parents said to her on platform 9 ¾. She hugged them and boarded the train, and went to sit in the Prefect Compartment. Remus wasn’t there, which had surprised her. About half an hour into the train ride, concerned, she went to find him.

Of course – she thought, as she pulled back the door to the Marauder’s compartment. “Remus, you’re supposed to be up the front,” she said.
They were all whispering over a book, and she was fed up. “Sixth year and you’re all just as immature as you were in first,” she said, and grabbed it out of their hands. She read a few lines and sunk into the seat next to Sirius, across from James. “What does it mean?” she whispered.
James leaned forward and patted her knee, “It means that they can suck the soul out of you. That’s why we are trying to learn Expecto Patronum, it is the only spell that can help us. We’re going to start practising when we get to the grounds, are you in?” he asked her.
She looked at Remus, who nodded at her, “Yes,” she said, starting to get frightened.

Lily and Remus were running, once again, to the screaming. It was coming from people standing around. It was James and Severus, fighting. They had arrived too late, and whilst Severus shouted “Furnunculus” at James, he had levitated him up in the air and was bouncing around upside down.
“James let him DOWN!” Lily yelled.
“No – he… No!” James said.
“James, what are you doing?” Remus asked. “You know this will have to be reported, don’t you?”
When they had gone to se Professor Dumbledore last year, he had warned them to let him know as soon as any fighting broke out.

“Severus are you okay?” Lily said, after James let him fall on his head, once again. She was touching his face, looking over him to make sure he was okay. Sirius was howling with laughter at the sight of James covered in boils.
Remus offered Severus his hand, trying to help him up, but he got up on his own and spat “I don’t need a Mudblood or a moon freak helping me,” and walked away.
If Remus’ reflects hadn’t been expecting retaliation, he wouldn’t have been able to grab James as he tried running after Severus.

Lily and Remus were walking back to the common room after a meeting with Professor Dumbledore. As they walked up to the portrait, they saw burning letters saying “Lily, need to talk, meet me in the Great Hall, S”
“Good use of the Flagrate charm,” Remus said.
“S? I think that’s Severus. Remus can you come with me?” she asked, turning around and walking back down the stairs, and off to the Great Hall. She heard Remus’ footsteps behind her.

“Why did you bring him?” Severus asked Lily as they walked in. He was sitting at the very end of the Slytherin table, so they sat across at the Ravenclaw Table.
“He is my friend, and you insulted him as well as me. What do you want Severus?”
“Lily I wanted to apologise, I just said it in the heat of the moment. Really, I don’t mean it at all, I was so angry at Potter.”
“I know you were Severus, but you have been changing this past year. You’re not… my Severus anymore. You’re getting darker and I don’t like it, and I don’t think I can be friends with you anymore, not when I’m a Mudblood and all.”

Remus and Lily walked back up to the common room. As soon as she sat on the long couch, Lily burst into tears. Remus sat down and put his arm around her, trying to comfort her. Unfortunately, James and Sirius banged open the portrait and walked inside. James saw Lily crying, and ran over to her, kneeling in front of her. He tried to pull her into a hug, which she just allowed. Sirius sat next to her.

“What happened?” he asked.
“Severus. He tried to apologise and…” Remus starting.
“I… I t-told him I c-couldn’t be fr-friends with him anymore,” Lily sobbed. The boys had no idea until now, just how close she was to him.
“I’m sorry Evans, I really am,” James whispered in her ear.
“Potter, I don’t want you to apologise. Just stop all of it, you too Black. I’ve had enough! It’s caused enough damage.”

“Evans I can Hex him with a Horn Tongue,” James said.
“I can pound the nose off of him,” Sirius said.
“Or we can just forgive him, and stay away from him,” Remus said.
“Potter! I said no, I don’t want any more of this. Just stop it,” Lily said.

They were back in the Quidditch stalls, looking out at the match between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Lily and Remus were sitting together at the back of a stall, watching out to make sure everyone was behaving themselves. An hour into the match, Lily was watching James as he zoomed back and forth in the air for the quaffle. If she hadn’t been watching him, she wouldn’t have seen him shaking. She knew James was a very good flyer.

“Remus look at James,” she said pointing him out.
“What’s he doing?” he asked.
Lily picked up her binoculars and looked out at him, “He isn’t doing anything, his broom has been… It’s a Hurling Hex!” she said, scanning the crowd. Her heart fell as she saw Severus was the one performing the hex.

She stood up and gave the binoculars to Remus, then bent down behind Sirius. Tugging on his robes, he spun around. When he saw her, he was smiling and she said “Look at James.”
“Oh Lily, no – he likes you not me,” Sirius said.
Lily frowned, “Neither do I, that’s not what I mean, look at his broom! Severus is hexing it.”
Sirius scanned the crowd for Snivellus.

Once he spotted Severus, Sirius whipped out his wand and held it pointed in his direction. He was using his other arm to stop Lily from getting in the way, but she wasn’t protesting.

“Impedimenta” he whispered, and the spell shot out and his Severus. Lily gasped and her hands flew over her mouth. She stood up, leaning so far over the rails to make sure both James and Severus were okay. The hex had been broken, and Severus had fallen backwards. Lily tried leaning forward more to see if she could spot him, just to see if he was okay – but she went over too far.

Screaming, she fell over the edge of the railings. She was bracing herself to hit the ground, but it never came. Strong hands embraced her, and everything was still. She opened her eyes and saw that she was in James’ arms. She blushed and said, “Thanks Potter,” and he replied, “My pleasure Lily, it was like catching a falling star,” and leant in to kiss her.

That kiss was interrupted by the other Marauders, and Professor Dumbledore, who was followed by Severus. “My office, all of you,” he said, looking very anxious.

Lily was the only one of the group sitting down. Sirius and James were glaring at Severus, who was glaring right back, and Remus was standing nervously in the middle.
Professor Dumbledore studied all of their faces, before speaking. “Miss. Evans has told me that you have all been practising the unforgivable curses. Especially Imperio, Mr. Black. Mr. Lupin has told me that you and Mr. Potter have been practising the spell on each other. Now, I need your word that you will not do this again. All of you,” he said now, addressing them all. “No more hexing, or cursing. If I hear that there has been any more of this, it will be instant expulsion. No Dark Magic is permitted within the grounds of Hogwarts. I don’t think you understand the seriousness, it’s not just a curse, it’s unforgivable. It’s illegal!” he said, and dismissed them. Severus stormed out the door, and Lily looked after him in eyes full of tears. James offered her his hand, and Lily got up, shoving it aside. She was next to storm out, and they all heard her running down the stairs crying.

“For Lily’s sake, Mr. Potter, no more.”

Lily and Remus were in the library studying transfiguration when Lily asked him, “Remus, did you ever get one of them to try Incarcerous? I mean, it might not be strong enough but… well, you never know,” she said, looking up at him.
“No, we never tried that one,” he said, bending his head to look at the spell. “Maybe we should give it a try one day…” he considered, thinking about the Marauders and what they would say when he asked them to tie him down with ropes.
“Yeah and I could always ask Sev…” Lily began, but stopped. Tears had welled in her eyes and were starting to fall down her cheeks. She hastily wiped them away.

“What would Severus say?” Remus asked Lily, knowing she might like to talk about him.
“Well he… the last time I spoke with him he had been tweaking other spells and trying to make new ones. I was just going to say if the ropes somewhat worked, he could tweak it to have chains instead.”
“That would sound like a good idea, Lily, if not for the fact that Severus hates me and would not do anything to help me.”

James was approaching Lily, who was sitting next to Remus. They were having a private conversation about tweaking the Incarcerous spell to make it chains instead of rope. They had decided that if Severus couldn’t help them, they would try to do it themselves. So, they had hired many books from the library on the subject and were sitting at the study tables in the common room.

He had that look on his face, and kept touching his hair. Lily knew what he was about to do. Plus, Remus had warned her.

As he got closer, Remus chuckled under his breath, interested to see what would happen. But it never did. Lily had shot a jinx under the table, a silent jinx, which hit James and he toppled over.
“Jelly Legs!” Sirius said, falling to the ground laughing at his best friend.
Remus even tipped his head backwards and started laughing. Soon enough, the whole common room was alive with laughing. James couldn’t even get up; so Remus shot the counter-curse, much to Lily and Sirius’ disappointment. James got up, and said “See you later Evans,” and walked away.
“New plan,” warned Remus.

“How old are you Evans?” James asked, barging in to the Prefect’s compartment where Lily and Remus were. They had been discussing more on the Incarcerous charm and how to tweak it, and were glad to be alone. Remus sighed when he entered, and Lily glared at him.
“Same age as you, big head,” she said.
“But… Are you sure you’re not 80?”

She looked puzzled. Exchanging a look with Remus, and seeing he too had no idea what James was on about, she said “What are you on about Potter?”
He laughed at her and pointed to a pair of knitting needles which had been charmed to hover mid air and knit by themselves. It was knitting something Red and Gold.
Lily smiled at Remus and giggled.
Remus shifted nervously in his chair. Here it goes… “It’s mine,” he admitted.

James looked between the two, sure they were pulling a joke on him. “You what?”
“I’m knitting a rug for next year. The shrieking shack is getting too cold in winter for me and I keep getting sick,” he said.
Lily raised her eyebrows at James, as if daring him to make a joke about his friend.

Lily said goodbye to her parents and boarded the Hogwarts Express. She saw many familiar faces saying goodbye to their parents, including Sirius and James being hugged and kissed by Mrs. Potter. She thought that was weird – what about Sirius’ mother?

Shrugging, she boarded the train and found Lupin in the Prefect’s compartment alone, looking much skinnier and worn out. She leaned over and gave him a big hug, saying “How was your Summer? Did you get head boy?”
“It was like most other summers, I suppose,” he said, and looked up to see Lily wearing a brand new badge. “Oh you got Head girl! Congratulations,” he said beaming. “I… didn’t get made Head boy though, no.”
“Hmm I wonder who-” she started, then her jaw fell open.

James Potter walked into the Prefect’s Compartment, showing them all his Head Boy badge.
“You? YOU!?” asked Lily loudly.
“Yes Evans, Surprised?” he asked, sitting next to her and putting his arm around her.
“Langlock,” she said, pointing her wand at him.
He mumbled loudly but could not form any words.
“Potter do not use this Head Boy for your own little ego power.”
He shook his head.

Lily and the Marauders were sitting together in the Common Room well after curfew. It was nearing 3am and they had been catching up, discussing their holidays. Lily had found out that Sirius was no longer living at home, and that’s why he was with the Potter’s at the station.

“Um… look Lily, I didn’t want to be the one to tell you but I found out… er… Severus, he’s a Legilimens,” Remus said.
Lily felt like the wind had been knocked out of her. “He’s a Legilimens?” she whispered.
“What?” asked Peter.
“Legilimens are people who can essentially read minds,” Lily said, feeling horrible. “Lord Voldemort is said to be a really skilled Legilimens as well.”
“So, what? Snivellus is a death eater now or something?” Sirius asked.

Remus looked at Lily and shrugged, “I heard he is. He and um…” he started and looked at Sirius.
“That little prat REGULUS?” Sirius boomed.
“It’s just what I’ve heard,” Remus said, trying to take the panic out of the discussion.
Sirius said, “Not many people can do it, that’s the point. MIND READING, it isn’t something a lot of people can ever achieve,” he said, sounding worried.

Lily and Alice were sitting near the Black Lake, getting some sun. They were enjoying the peace and quiet outside the castle, but it was soon interrupted.
“Lily, it’s happening again,” Remus said with panic in his voice. Lily scrambled up quickly, brushing the grass from her clothes, as she run back towards the castle with Remus.

“He.. can’t.. be.. serious! He’s.. head.. boy.. now..” Lily panted as she followed Remus.
He didn’t reply, so when Lily turned the corner and saw that it was James’ body levitating in the air by his ankle she let out a loud gasp.

“Severus, what are you doing?” she asked him.
“Showing him that some people like revenge,” he said, looking truly like he would harm James.
Lily felt her entire soul drop to her feet. “Why are you doing this?”
He looked at her, and flipped his wand which dropped James’ levitating body to the ground, landing with a thud on the hard ground. “I love you Lily. He took you away from me!”

“Severus, it wasn’t that that made you lose me,” she said, turning her back on him to help James off the round with Remus and Sirius’ help.

Midnight on a Thursday night, Lily snuck out of the common room. She had a secret meeting planned, and needed to find it. She had no idea where it was. All she was told was that if she wondered around, she would find it. That was way too ambiguous, and she soon found herself walking around feeling lost inside her own home.

But Lily was starting to get frightened, and she pulled out her wand and said “Lumos.”
She opened her mouth to let out a scream, but the hands were too close and she felt one go right over her mouth, and others pulling her by her hands and arms along the corridor.
One of them pulled her wand from her hand and held it up to lead the way. The silhouettes were of her friends, which made her relax. When they stood in front of a large wall, the four pairs of hands let her free, and all pointed their wands up and said “Lumos,” so they could watch the wall transform into a giant door.

“What is this?” Lily asked, amazed she had never seen it before.
“Evans, Welcome to the Room of Requirement,” James said.

“Mobilicorpus,” Remus said, pointing his want at Lily.
She laughed as her body was pulled off the ground and began levitating above the ground. She was still in standing position, so she wasn’t frightened. It was actually quite a nice feeling, she decided.
She pulled her wand out and said “Levicorpus,” pointing it at Remus.

As Remus’ body was yanked into the air by his ankle Lily’s fell back to the ground. She landed on her feet, and smiled up at Remus. “I guess we know what happens when we combine two spells,” and laughed.

“Mobilicorpus,” Lily yelled, swiftly pointing her wand in the direction of Sirius, Peter and James. They all laughed as their bodies were levitated above as well. After a few minutes, she dropped her wand, and they came back to the ground nicely, even Remus.

“Maybe we can put him on the top of the castle,” Sirius suggested, talking about Severus. “He can be a death eater up there.”
Lily frowned at him; “Sirius we’re not the people who do things like that. We need to start protecting people against this dark magic rather than getting revenge.”
“I agree,” Remus and James said.