DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING CREATED BY J.K. ROWLING. I DO OWN SABRINA GODFREY AND KATIE FLEMING, AS WELL AS ANY OTHER OCs I HAVE CREATED AND FORGOTTEN ABOUT. I HAVE ALSO CITED ANY TEXT THAT IS NOT MY OWN CREATION (SEE THE FINAL "CHAPTER" LINK).

• ~1960 (+/- 2 yrs)
• Lily, James, Remus, Sirius, Peter, Sabrina, and Katie born

• 1977-1978
• 7^th year at Hogwarts (Winterstar begins)
• Spring 1978
• Sirius and Sabrina start going out
• Spring 1979
• James and Lily get married
• 1979 (unknown)
• Regulus Black killed
• October 1979
• Draco is conceived
• Harry is conceived
• Sabrina and Sirius are married
• November 1979
• Pregnancy test for Lily
• Christmas 1979
• James and Lily’s first Christmas together, as well as Sabrina and Sirius’s.
• July 31, 1980
• Harry Potter is born
• October 1980
• Peter is kidnapped by Voldemort
• Mid-July 1981
• Tabita is conceived
• October 2, 1981
• Dumbledore informs the Potters that they must go into hiding.   
• October 3, 1981
• Meeting at the Potters' house with Sirius to discuss the Secret-Keeper
• October 8, 1981
• Sirius is named Secret-Keeper
• October 12, 1981
• Dumbledore offers to be Secret-Keeper once again, but James declares his complete faith in Sirius.
• October 14, 1981
• After a mental wrestling match, Sirius decides that it is best if Peter is the Secret-Keeper
• October 15, 1981
• Sabrina is invited to spend a week with her grandmother over Halloween
• October 16, 1981
• Peter is named Secret-Keeper.
• October 23, 1981
• The last day Sabrina and Sirius will ever see the Potters. Sirius finally tells his wife that Peter is the Secret-Keeper. He doesn't tell Remus, because a mutual distrust has grown between them...he senses Remus's distrust and reciprocates it.
• October 24, 1981
• The Fidelius Charm is performed
• Peter is taken before Voldemort and betrays the secret location of the Potters to the Dark Lord
• October 31, 1981: All Hallow's Eve
  
• Sabrina leaves on a bus after saying goodbye to Sirius. Sirius arranges to go check on Peter...goes, and Peter's not there (no sign of a struggle), so he rushes on his flying motorcycle to the Potters' house. He finds the ruins of their house and leaves his motorbike with Hagrid while he goes after Wormtail.
  
• Sabrina’s bus is targeted by Death Eaters (sent by Bellatrix Lestrange by order of Mrs. Black); she gets off right before this happens, directly after another woman has stolen the purse which holds her identification. Therefore, the Muggle police identify that woman’s severely-burned body as “Sabrina Godfrey”, who is then announced as dead.
• November 1, 1981
• Harry Potter is taken to the Dursleys' house by Dumbledore and McGonnagall
  
• Sabrina reads of Sirius's arrest and thinks that Dumbledore won't even be able to help her (she assumes that he knows that the Secret-Keeper was switched, and that since he hasn't gotten Sirius out of Azkaban yet, he must not be able to do anything, including protect her and her unborn child). She flees to America under an assumed identity.
• November 2, 1981
• Sirius finds Peter and tries to kill him but is arrested and taken to Azkaban without a trial; he is given a newspaper by Remus that shows him that his wife is “dead”. 
• February 12, 1982
• Tabita Lily Black is born in an American wizarding hospital.
• ~1990
• Sabrina sends a letter to Sirius explaining her actions
• July 1993
• Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban (summer before Harry’s 3^rd year)
• In America, Tabita Black learns the truth about her father
• June 1996
• Sirius finds the letter from Sabrina, which Kreacher had hidden away. He goes to his death with the knowledge that his wife and child are alive.
• Early fall 1996
• Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks discover Sabrina’s letter and Sirius’s reply while searching for his will. Remus hides the letter away until a more appropriate time to tell Harry the story of his godparents.
• 1998
• Defeat of Voldemort
• Late 1998
• Harry discovers the package of letters that Remus had set aside for his eyes only.
• Fall 2005
• Harry meets Tabita at Oxford; Sabrina returns to England and the remainder of the Black family takes up their places as members of the Order of the Phoenix and another family for Harry; Sabrina and Sirius’s graves are put right.

Katie Fleming

• As Sirius Black’s girlfriend, Katie is sweet and pretty but knows how to take care of herself. Vindictive only when you cross her, she nevertheless harbors a selfish side that leaves her on the lookout for intrusions into her comfortable little sphere. She is very easy to get along with but leaves people (including Sirius) wanting a bit more than she will freely give them. She makes sure only to show her good side to the world; her bad side she keeps held back until something necessitates its use—people don’t often see it, and tend to forget that it’s there.

• Personality: primarily self-centered but cares about her close friends, vindictive, flattering, tease, “doll-like” and accommodating but only externally kind (and very good at it)

• Appearance: petite, fair-haired, light-brown eyes, moves like a little bird at times.

Peter Pettigrew

• The least talented of the four Marauders, Peter (also known as "Wormtail" for his rat Animagus form) genuinely cares for his friends, but his need for their approval gets in the way of his own plans, actions, even thoughts (at times). He doesn’t easily warm up to people, but is quite willing to help others and is often embarrassed when people praise or thank him. He idolizes James and Sirius and considers Remus his one tried-and-true best friend. Others in the Marauders’ circle are accepted by him if they are accepted by James and Sirius; he likes those that Remus likes. This outward tendency of Peter’s leads to disaster when he has to face his own inner doubts and fears.

• Personality: good-natured, well-intended but sometimes awkward, prone to self-oriented thoughts and actions

• Appearance: somewhat shorter than his friends, mousy features and mouse-brown hair, a little dumpy, blue eyes, good-natured but occasionally-nervous smile

Lily Evans

• Lily prides herself on being a good student and a better friend. As much as she refuses to admit it, she cares deeply for James Potter: though he goes against all her instincts in the recklessness department, she recognizes that he is a genuinely good person underneath all his brashness and somewhat-exaggerated egotism. She has no patience for people who think too much of themselves and has a strong sense of justice, refusing to tolerate cruelty in nearly any form; she and Remus are the Marauders’ voices of reason.

• Personality: perfectionist, kind but no-nonsense, impatient, friendly but somewhat reserved.
• Appearance: flowing dark-red hair, sharp almond-shaped green eyes, slender and medium height, warm laugh
  

• Remus Lupin

o       Quiet but calmly strong, Remus Lupin is the reserved one of the group and possibly the least dependent on his friends. He is extremely bright but doesn’t think too much of himself, and is happy to leave the glory (most of the time) to the more unruly James and Sirius—as a prefect, he has to. Nonetheless, he is often to be found plotting their next adventure with them. He is good-natured and tries to take things in stride. It takes a great deal for him to lose his trust in someone, but once that trust is lost, it takes an even greater deal for him to give it again. His is an enduring personality, and his great loyalty to his friends overrides even his own personal concerns, including his feelings for the young woman his friend is in love with.

o       Personality: contemplative, sweet, good-natured, strong, enduring, quietly humorous but can be boisterous when the situation calls for it, loyal to the point of putting aside his own needs and wants for the sake of his friends.

o       Appearance: light-brown/sandy-tawny hair, half-wild brown-gold eyes with gold flecks, thin-framed but strong.

CHARACTERS

• Sirius Black

o       Sirius is an interesting person—wild and cocky, he retains an immense depth which he shows with some care. Regarded as one of the brightest students at Hogwarts, he is generally behind the crazy things that the Marauders do, and it is highly suspected that many of the rules at Hogwarts were created specifically with him in mind. That aside, however, Sirius cares passionately—almost to the point of lack of sense—about his best friends and refuses to believe anything bad about them (though once his trust is broken it can never be regained). He is a creature of extremes whose day-to-day polarization is strangely offset by the incredible depth and constancy of his relationships. He invests his entire being—mind, body, and soul—in them (his relationship with Katie did not follow this pattern, and he realized that) and it is this almost-blind devotion which all but destroys him in the end.

o       Personality: charismatic, charming, apparently lazy, bright, impatient, reckless, moody, passionate, incredibly loyal, mischievous, capable

o       Appearance: tall and well-built, lithe, “casually graceful” dark hair, grey eyes, dangerously lazy

• James Potter

o       The epitome of brilliant and cocky, James Potter is good at everything, including being the best friend Sirius Black could ever ask for. No one thinks of one of them without the other (especially not Slytherins). James goes through life as a happy-go-lucky little upstart, setting his hopes on one thing—the lovely Lily Evans—and enjoying everything else. Occasionally his (literally) charmed life can blind him to the needs of others, including his friends, but they know that in the end they are the fabric of his existence, and that he would, if necessary, die for them. With Sirius it is more obvious that this is the case, but James, if one gets to know him well enough, is the same.

o       Personality: sunny, focused, loyal, strong-willed, hopeful, bright, impish, ringleader

o       Appearance: tall, perpetually-messed dark hair, hazel eyes, glasses, longish features, blinding grin, restless energy

• Sabrina Godfrey

           Welcome to Winterstar: The Marauders Unveiled!
 

           Winterstar started out as a romance and ended up becoming what I now think of as exactly what happened to the Marauders. I did my best to create each character as I think JK Rowling meant them to be, and in this guide I intend to try to show each of them to you, especially the oft-forgotten-and-shunted-aside Peter Pettigrew.

            I’ve tried to model this after the HP Lexicon—I’ve included a chapter-by-chapter guide, character breakdown (with pictures if possible), and of course a timeline. Also, I will include several “did-you-notice” remarks. :D

            Enjoy! Thank you so much for taking the time to read the entire story—I hope this is helpful/interesting!

            ~folk