Previously :
"Is it ok with you if I ask Lily to marry me?" James said with a more calm tone.
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The girls were silent for a few moments
"Did I hear you right?"Clara asked, breaking the silence. You could see the marauders faces full of anticipation. "Yes," James replied. The next few moments were spent in silence but the girls sharing glances at each other, in ways that neither of the boys could read their faces.
"Oh will you answer already!" Sirius exclaimed. The girls suddenly started screaming. Unsurprisingly, this caused Sirius to jump and bump into Remus who bumped into Peter who knocked down one of the side tables.
"Umm, does this mean you girls are ok with this?"James asked, hopefull.
"OF COURSE!" they screamed in unison.
"But don't tell Lily about this obviously." JAmes said.
"When are you doing it?"
"The night of graduation, before dinner." James said, timidly knowing Marlene's reaction.
"That's in...TOMORROW!" Marlene screamed.
"I know, I know but don't worry I have everything ready, at least I hope I do."
"You better, if you ruin anything tomorrow, I will ruin you." Marlene threatened.
"And she's not the only one." Clara and Alice added.
"Hey Marls, your book's not there, we didn't even have classes today!" Lily exclaimed as she entered the room.
"Sorry Lily, must have misplaced it somewhere."
"It's ok Marls, What were you talking about?"
"Nothing muc, just how tomorrow would be a really special dayand we have to make it as memorable as possible-" Alice exclaimed.
Internally, James groaned, and just hoped that Marlene wouldn't say anything.
"What why?" Lily asked.
"Lily! It's our last day of Hogwarts!"Alice concluded. James sighed of releief.
"Hey we should do our nails! Besided tomorrow is a big day!" Clara added.
"I mean it is graduation day and that only comes once in your life." Marlene added.
"Yes! We should have a last girls night, but please, let's not pull an all nighter. Last time we did that, we were all so tired and we have a big day ahead of us!"
"Hey Lily what do you think you want to do after Hogwarts?" Clara asks.
"You all know I want to be a part-time auror and healer.
"Not like that! I meant with James." Clara confirms.
"Oh. I haven't really thought about it much but I do hope to get married and start a family with him, I do love him very much!" Lily said, she looked over at their smirking faces and started to blush.
"LILY!!!!!" they screamed.
The girls spent the rest of night talking about their future lives and the upcoming day.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Next Day~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
James woke up with what felt like a heavy weight on his heart. As apprehensive he was about today, he was excited, he was sure that Lily would love the proposal set up, the only thing he was hoping for was she saying 'Yes'. James left the room and walked to the great hall.
"Hey Prongsie! How you holding up?" Sirius asked, thumping his back.
"Honestly, I feel like throwing up."
"You'll be fine Prongs." Remus added.
"Just make sure not to break a leg, or hands." Peter said and started to mutter to himself.
"Hey James!" Lily said as she walked in the great hall.
"H-hey Lils." he said, "so um whats up?" he aksed.
"Um, nothing much." was all Lily said before going to find her friends, 'That was odd' she thought, 'James would never say something like that and why was he stuttering?' Lily brushed it off, behind her she could hear Sirius and Remus laughing.
"Is James ok?" she asked, sitting at the table.
"Yeah why?" Marlene asked.
"um - nothing." she decided to just ignore it.
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"Hey James, you good, you look like you just saw a ghost." Remus says.
"Yeah, um I forgot to ask Dumbledore and Minnie if I can actually do this." James said. No more words said, before Sirius burst into laughter.
"Padfoot, this is serious."
"How is that Sirius when I'm Sirius?" Sirius said in between breaths.
"I'm not joking around Pads!" James whisper shouted.
"Well, then what are you waiting for, go and ask!" Remus said.
"Hey James!" Lily said as he walked down the hall.
"H-hey Lily!" he replied, thank goodness his voice was back to normal.
"You having any breakfast?"
"Yeah, I just need to ask Minnie and Dumbledore something." he said and carried on walking, before he made a fool of himself.
"Hey Minnie, Dumbledore can I speak to the two of you for a minute please?" They both looked at each other and shared a knowing glance. They went out of the great hall and went to Minnie's office since it was closest.
"So James?" Dumbledore asked.
"This is hard to say, um basically you know I love Lily so much and Lily loves me as well, I think and hope-"
"I know she does James." McGonogall said.
"Um I was wondering if I could propose to her before dinner today." he said as calmly as he could.
"Proposal, wow you sure James?" McGonogall asked, "Not that it's a bad thing, if you are ready then go ahead."
"Yes, I think I'm ready and I hope she is too." James said.
"Well then James, there is nothing I can say to stop you." Dumbledore said, "although I can stop you Professor McGonogall!" he said smirking, having seen McGonogall leaving the room.
"You see James, your wonderful 'Minnie' was trying to leave without giving me a few galleons, she owns me." Dumbledore added.
"Why?" James asked.
"Well your professor and I made a little bet you see, I thought you two would be engaged before you leave Hogwarts while she thought, you'd get engaged after. Guess I won." Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eyes.
"You betted on my relationship!" James asked shocked, "who am I kidding, this is Hogwarts, it's crazy!" he said before walking out.
Reluctantly, McGonogall handed over 12 galleons to Dumbledore. "Thank you!" he said before exiting his office.
She looked at the clock on her wall and saw the time read, 10.30. She had 1 and a half hours before she had to begin the graduation ceremony. Although she wouldn't admit it, she would miss this year. The 'marauders' as they called themselves and their pranks, the love-hate relationship James and Lily used to have. The amount of love they have for each other now, their quidditch teams. The nickname they made for her , 'Minnie'. She'll miss James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily, Marlene, Clara and Alice the most though. SHe knows she shouldn't be biased but it's difficult. Honestly, this year's class have been the best, with their bubbly, competetive personalities. It's going to be hard seeing them go, after knowing them for 7 years. They'll do great in their lives, they have the capability of achieving amazing things.
---------------12:00 pm----------------
"All seventh years, please can you come outside." McGonogall says and makes her way outside, The seventh-years were met with a surprise, as they saw their parents sitting outside on chairs.
"What you guys didn't think we'd let your parents miss your graduation did you?" Dumbledore chuckles. The seventh years were running off to hug their parents. James had already spotted his parents but he looked at Lily, whose head was hanging down.
"Come one Lils." he said, holding out his hand. He took her to meet his parents, they chatted for a bit before they heard, "Head Boy, Head Girl, can I please see you." Professor McGonogall shouts over the loud noise.
"Ok Mum, Dad I'll see you later." he said and went up to Professor McGonogall.
"Ok, you're Head Boy and Head Girl and as you already know you have to make a speech after each of the students have had their graduation certificates-"
"Hold up, what!" James asked.
"Mr Potter, I had already warned you in our previous meeting." McGonogall says sternly.
"Oh shoot! I completely forgot!"
"James!" Lily half-scolded.
"My goodness, what are we going to do with you!" McGonogall chuckles, shaking her head, "Well Mr Potter, you'll have to make it up on the spot or so, Miss Evans, have you got yours?" Lily nodded, "Ok great, we will be starting soon. The graduation will go in Alphabetical order, but after you are done, Miss Evans and Mr Potter could you please stand behind the stage, so you are ready to give your speeches. First Miss Evans will go." she said before walking up on the stage.
"James did you honestly forget or did you not do it." Lily asked.
"I honestly forgot I swear!" He said.
"Oh no! He forgot the big speech. The exact thing he needed, to humiliate himself infront of everyone." thy heard. James and Lily turned around and saw Snae and his gang, smirking in their direction.
"Before you say anything about anyone else, you should look at yourself. Who wouldn't be humiliated with that grease all over them Snivellus." Lily said and walked off to sit in her seat.
"That's my girl!" James added, knowing it would trigger Snape
"What needed a girl to stand up for you, Pottah?" Snape smirked, trying to hide his anger.
"Mind you, I wouldn't say that infront of Lily, she could be just as dangerous as she is pretty and actually if you hadn't realised already Lily stood up for me because she wanted to and that doesn't make me any weaker. It makes me stronger. Anyways, I have better things to be doing, so toodles!" he said before skipping away.
As James sat down on the chair next to his friends, Remus asked him, "What was that all about?"
"Oh nothing, just an encounter with Snivellus, he thought that having Lily stand up for me makes me weaker. But that's not even the bad bit! I forgot to write a speech for the Head Boy speech thing!" James exclaimed.
"Or did you?" Remus asked smirking, holding a piece of paper, " I figured you'd forget it or what you wrote would make no sense, so I decided to write one for you."
"Moony! You're a lifesaver!" James says. They continues talking and James reads through Moony's speech, he finds there is something missing so he quickly grabs a quill and scribbles something on.
"Amber Anderson!" McGonogall says first and the timid girl, slowly climbs up the stairs and gets her certificate. The line goes on and James doesn't pay much attention before hearing the name
"Sirius Black!" he started whisling and screaming ,"Go Sirius!" with Remus. The line continued and they all did the same things when McGonogall called, "Lily Evans", "Alice Fortescue", "Remus Lupin", Marlene McKinnon", "Clara Nightingale", "Peter Pettigrew" (who was shocked he graduated, it means he must have passed his exams , and "James Potter".
After graduation and meeting their parents, the eight met up and decided to open their cards at the same time.
"3...2...1..." They all opened the envelopes which revealed their scores for their NEWTs.
"Lils, what did you get?"
"All O's!" she screamed, excitedly.
"James?"
" All O's but 2 E's"
"Remus?"
"All O's!" he said.
"Clara?"
" 5 O's, 3 E's"
"Alice?"
"6 O's, 2E's"
"Marlene?"
"5 O's, 3 E's?"
"Sirius?"
"4 O's, 4 E's"
"Peter?"
" 6 A's and 2 P's"
"That's not bad is it?"
"No Peter it's not!
"This is the best day ever!" Lily screamed.
"Yes it is." James added and kissed Lily.
Little did she know it was just going to get better.
(if u forgot) THE WIZARDING NEWTs LEVELS:
Outstanding [O]
Exceeds Expectations [E]
Acceptable [A]
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Poor [P] (may possibly repeat)
Dreadful [D]
Troll [T] (fail with distinction)
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