They are in their forth year now, and James feels annoyed by how many people are staring at Camilla.

Yeah, she was pretty before and is starting to look beautiful now, but that doesn't give guys the right to ask her out on dates!

The three girls seem to be even more closer now, and have added another member -a Gryffindor in their year by the name of Alice Fortensque- into their tightly-knit group. They now tend to giggle at boys and James finds it weird and just wants everything to go back to the way it was before. And the worst part is when he asks them what they are talking about and they giggle again, share secret looks and reply "It's girl stuff" in union.

So, he decided that if they are going to keep a secret from him, it's only fair if he and they guys keep a secret from them. James grins as he looks at Sirius and Remus. "Boys, we are learning how to become animagus's."

It's Sirius's birthday again, and Camilla enlists the help of the House Elves to bake him a fourteen-layer cake and presents it to him during dinner. Their Transfiguration Professor seems to have a sixth-sense for trouble, and looks at the cake with visible suspicion as Camilla lights the candles with an innocent smile.

"Are you sure there is nothing wrong with the cake, Miss Lavensque?" The Scottish professor asks with narrowed eyes.

"Of course, Minnie." Camilla smiles. "In fact, I solemnly swear-"

The candles melt and the huge cake bursts, splattering icing and vanilla goodness as far as two tables.

"-that I am upto no good." Camilla finishes with sparkling, mischievous eyes.

Sirius grins and shares a look with James- both of them covered in cake from head to toe. They both stand up on the table and shout in union. "Food fight!"

Catherine is the first to react, and throws a treacle tart on Selina, who looks shocked for a second and throws it back, accidentally hitting it on the face of Chelsea Treya instead; which starts a war.

Professor 'Minnie' looks outraged. "You-you Marauders!"

Sirius looks thoughtful. "Hmm, that's actually a pretty good name. Right James?"

"Totally Sirius." James laughs and throws the nearest food -beans- at Camilla.

Minerva Mcgonagall was just about to shout at them and take away points when a pie hits her right cheek.

Silence and horrified gasps echo.

Professor 'Minnie' turns to the students slowly in an action that can best be described as the 'calm before the storm'. "Who did this?" She asks sweetly.

Hundreds of fingers point to the culprit- one guilty looking Albus Dumbledore.

Professor 'Minnie' smiles sweetly again, and it is the single most terrifying thing any of them have ever seen. Twenty pies are levitated from the table, and are smashed on Albus Dumbledore's face simultaneously. Mcgonagall smiles smugly now as the students cheer.

The food fight resumes with the teachers being dragged into it this time.

Professor Slughorn is covered in applesauce and peas, and Professor Flitwick smells like pumpkin juice and roast meat. Professor Sprout looks like a dessert covered in toppings and Professor Vector looks to have had a thanksgiving dinner dumped on her. The other professors are in similar states, but every single one of them looks like they are having fun. The students are no exception and most of them look unrecognisable. Lucius Malfoy's previously silky, perfect hair now is stuck together with honey, and Narcissa Black's formally impeccable attire looks like a buffet service. Regulus Black grinned widely as he threw food at people he hated and Theodore Nott -who's mildly allergic to peanuts- would have to visit the hospital later due to how much peanut soup he's accidentally swallowed.

Like all good things, the Great Food Fight of 74' is it would be called, also came to an end with Ravenclaw losing seventy five points, Gryffindor losing fifty and a certain Miss Lavensque, Mr Potter, Mr Black and Miss Fawley having to stay back and clean the whole mess without magic.

Nobody blamed them for the loss of points, and every single person left the Great Hall with absolutely no regrets.

A handsome seventh year Hufflepuff named Amos Diggory asks Camilla out to Hogsmead the next day, and she agrees. For some unknown reason he can't comprehend, James is entirely annoyed by both of them and sulks the whole weekend. He makes up an elaborate plan with Sirius to make the trip go awful for both of them (Remus calls it 'sabotage'), but somehow fails badly each time and ends up making the situation worse for himself.

Try to trip Camilla? Don't worry, Amos Diggory will catch her dance-style and the two will stare into each other's eyes for eight minutes (he counted). 'Accidentally' bump into Diggory and make him spill his drink all over himself? Why fear when Camilla would happily dab his ruined shirt with tissues before using a stain-clear spell her mum taught her? Not only that, she would also go the extra mile by offering the two of them to share her drink. James looked with narrowed eyes as Camilla and Amos drank from the same glass with two straws and some girls gushed over how 'cute' they look together.

He didn't understand why Selina, Catherine, Sirius, Remus, Alice or his other roommate, Frank completely discarded his concerns about Amos and Camilla. He also didn't understand why Catherine handed over five gallons to a smirking Selina and why Sirius patted his shoulder in sympathy.

The rest of the Hogsmead day was spent with James ranting about how he knows that Amos is a secret Dark Lord in the making and is so obviously not good for Cam, and don't look at me like that Sirius! He is evil, and I know it.

The girls immediately steal Camilla away as soon as she returns from Hogsmead, much to James's dismay as he wanted to share his concerns with her. ("And stop looking at me like that, Sirius!"). James gives Amos Diggory the stink-eye and stubbornly ignores Camilla the whole week, much to the girl's confusion.

Camilla corners James and demands to know why he isn't talking to her. James gives her a very snobbish look and asks her that wouldn't she rather spend time talking with pretty boy Diggory instead? Their argument escalades from there, neither one of them compromising as both of them are equally as stubborn as the other.

They glare daggers at each other the next morning at breakfast, but continue to ignore each other after that.

Camilla is absolutely ruthless in the Quidditch match against Gryffindor a week later and makes her house win the game by a considerably large margin, despite James having caught the snitch.

James asks out a girl named Dorcas Meadows to the next Hogsmead weekend. Camilla continues talking with Amos Diggory.

Their friends look at each other with mutual annoyed glances at the two's petty fight, and there is a popular betting pool going around Hogwarts on when they will -quite literally- kiss and make-up. The teachers would deny that they are taking part in the pool in official statements.

It's been a little over four years since Camilla had started apprenticing under Albus Dumbledore in Alchemy, and a little over seven years since she initially started learning the subject. The Headmaster informs her that if she writes a thesis and submits it to the Ministry and gets it approved, she will be one of the youngest persons to ever gain an Alchemy Mastery. Attempting to write the thesis is hard, but it's a much needed distraction at the moment. She decides to inform her friends about that news bit when they come over to her house for Yule.

It's Yule now and Camilla and James still aren't talking. But Lady Potter brings her husband and her son for their now traditional yearly trip to the Lavensque Castle (also present are the Malfoy's, the Delacour's, the Notts, the Greengrasses, Sirius, Regulus and Narcissa Black, the Lupins, the Fawleys, the Fortensques and the Longbottoms) and upon learning that the two aren't speaking, she -along with Lady Lavensque- engage in the age-old tactic of locking the two of them in a cupboard until they make-up.

It's worked with them before, and it works even now and eight hours later, a smiling James and Camilla with identical sported grins come out. They are friends again. James learns that the reason Amos Diggory and Cam were so close was because one of her cousins was interested in him, and she was acting as a sort of messenger between them. He breathes a silent sigh of relief at that and whistles cheerfully for the rest of the day (Camilla is once again very confused and put-out by his strange behaviour).

Selina slyly asks whether they kissed in the cupboard -she needs to win a bet, after all- and James and Camilla's similar looks of horrified disgusts at her question proves that they did not.

Camilla announces the news of her almost-mastery over dinner on the eve of Yuletide. Congratulatory hugs are passed around along with lots of proud expressions. They offer her any help that they can and Camilla is touched by all the love and support shown by her friends.

Ravenclaw loses their final match against Slytherins, thus forfeiting the Quidditch Cup. Selina, Regulus, Lucius, Narcissa and Theodore are a little too smug about that.

Sirius and James are still trying to be animagus, so they decide that Sirius and Regulus would stay at Potter Manor during the summer, so the two of them could try the mandrake-leaves part together. They figured they could rope Regulus into being an animagus as well. It would be a fun thing they could do during the summer.

Camilla finishes writing her thesis. She's written about how wizards and witches unknowingly use alchemy in their everyday lives and has also included some uses of the Philosopher's stone in ways people hadn't thought they could be used. Her picture is posted on newspapers in nineteen different countries (the French newspapers putting her as the head-liner), it's wonderful news- she is the second youngest Alchemy Mastery ever recorded in history! Dumbledore holds a feast in her honour and Camilla blushes throughout.

She has a new goal now: gain a Mastery in Runes before the age of twenty.

The exams are surprisingly nice, (but not one forth-year can forget that they will be taking their O.W.L.S the year after) and the end-of-the-year feast has dawned up on them once again with Slytherin winning both, the Quidditch Cup and the House Cup.

Selina turns out to be just as -if not more- insufferable as James was the pervious year and brags about the 'prestige' of Slytherin House throughout the train ride back. It turns out to be sweet, dear Alice who decides to employ the same technique Camilla did the year before and casts a Silencio on the Greengrass heiress. The boys look at her in awe and mock-worship her dramatically.

They all hug each other good-bye with promises of writing and meeting up during the summer.