Disclaimer:I do not own Remus, Sirius, James, Lily or Peter, or in fact any of the Harry Potter characters. I do in fact own Phoebe and Lottie though. Please rate and review. Enjoy! XX
Thursday 22nd December 1977
The snow was falling faster, landing on the treetops with an easy grace. Five animals were gambolling around in the snow, getting a fair-haired boy stood in the middle of them covered with the fine white powder. He shrieked as the black dog pounced on him, and began to lick his face.
'Padfoot! No, stop it!' He shouted at the dog, who obliged, but a fluffy white cat took his place. They could have been laughing at him.
'Fluffy! Gerrof!' He heard a shout of laughter from behind, to see his other friends had transformed back to humans. When he turned back to look at the cat, it had gone. In its place was a girl, who grinned menacingly, and then proceeded to lick his nose again.
'Hey! Get off!' She laughed, and then rolled into the cold snow. While the five people behind him were in hysterics. He stood up, his nose red from the weather, to look at them. James was holding hands with Lily, her red hair shining in the sun. Sirius was tickling Lottie, who threatened to chop his head off. He turned around again, to see Phoebe, his girlfriend, her blonde hair piled up in a messy bun, giggling at something. He held out his hand to pull her up off the floor, but she continued to laugh.
'What's so funny?' He asked her.
'Remus, you look like an old man!' She laughed, pointing at his head, he tried to look, but could not see anything but the ground behind him.
'Here.' Said Lily, passing him a pocket mirror. Remus looked in the mirror, and was startled to see that his hair was covered in white snow, and gave the impression that he was a skinny version of Father Christmas. The others burst out laughing again at his reaction, and Phoebe grabbed his hand.
'Come on, let's get you cleaned up.' She turned towards the castle, transforming as she went, and Remus followed the little white cat, curious at how he had such mad friends.
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A little while later, the group were sat in their common room. A blazing fire sat in the grate, with Sirius prodding it with a poker. James and Lily were curled up on the sofa, Lottie sat writing in a book, Remus sat looking into the depths of the fire, while Phoebe leant against him reading a book. Suddenly James spoke.
'Where's Peter?'
'I'm not sure…probably in detention.' Replied Lottie, frowning slightly.
'In the holidays?' Said Sirius, 'No-one gets detention in the holidays, not even me.'
'Yeah and we all know that's really easy don't we.' Said Phoebe sarcastically, smirking at him.
'Whatever.'
They sat in silence for a minute, before Sirius spoke again.
'Did you know there's a Hogsmede visit tomorrow?' Asking no-one imparticular.
'Oooh, good I can do my Christmas shopping.' Said Phoebe happily.
'What are you getting me?' Asked Remus.
'Who says I'm getting you anything?' She replied with a small smile.
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Hope you enjoyed it! Second chapter out soon, in-progress. Toodles! Phoebe E. Lupin.